Working From Home: 5 Creative Workspaces
See how these inhabitants blur the line between home and work, setting up spaces that allow for both (and alleviate the need to commute). Whether a jeweller’s workshop, a painter’s den, a writer’s desk, a tailor's atelier – discover how these creative subjects have appointed working quarters that allow them to pick up the tools for their craft, whenever the mood strikes.
You’d be hard pressed not to find inspiration in Stanislava Pinchuk & Ennis Ćehić’s Sarajevo apartment, with its high ceilings, original herringbone parquetry and ornate French doors. It’s here that the artist & writer duo work and live, surrounded by their various vintage finds and personal additions, like a heaving bookshelf and a series of plinths used in one of Stan’s own exhibitions.
Surrounded by a vast collection of found objects, treasured gifts, and her own works, artist Alana Burns has created a visual tapestry in her home & studio, situated in Polanco, Mexico City. Tools of her trade litter the space, working with a broad spectrum of materials you’re just as likely to find metals as you are textiles in her sunlit workspace.
Tailor, Emily Nolan (and self confessed night owl) works long into the evening from her Fitzroy workroom. Housed in a former chocolate factory, her space feels like something out of a Parisian novel. Days are peppered with long soaks in a sunken bath and trips to local galleries & bars, as well as made-to-measure client fittings and pattern-making for the ready-to-wear branch of her business, E Nolan.
Jewellery artisan, and founder of namesake brand Miguel, Marta Marginet Miguel lives in a tranquil and inviting space decorated only with objects of beauty and meaning. Formerly the lodgings of tobacco company workers dating back to the 1900's in Mexico City, much of her work is conducted in the apartment’s picturesque internal courtyard, surrounded by greenery and a soundtrack of birdsong.
A few years back, we visited the lodgings of housemates artist Camille Moir and sculptor Zachary Frankel. While the property is now home to many artists in residence, in the form of Collingwood House, the property holds a special place in Journal history, a colourful & a creative household in a former shop in Melbourne’s Collingwood.