Fog House, by David Adjaye, may be dark and austere on the outside, but step inside and it’s bursting with light and colour
Step into the study in Della Burnside’s five-storey home and a clementine corner sofa and matching partition wall, a crimson rug and poof and an exuberant pink feather flapper girl lamp vie for your attention. “The colours all over the house are shocking and bright,” says Burnside. “They suit my personality better than my old house, which was more restrained.” That was a late-Victorian property, also in Clerkenwell, central London, and it was “dark, with lots of wood panelling and traditional furniture”.
Fog House, which she bought in 2016, gets its name from the sandblasted wall of glass on the top floor of the converted warehouse. Once occupied by Marc Quinn, the YBA who made a sculpture of his head out of his own frozen blood, the building has itself been given fresh blood, courtesy of leading architect Sir David Adjaye, who added a glass-clad parapet and a cantilevered glazed extension on the back.
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