The huge city loft offers fabulous living quarters quite unlike those of any other metropolitan dwelling. The occupant generally inherits time-scarred beams overhead, wide planks on the floors, high, handsome windows with a view of the city, and incredible spaciousness. Scenographer Derek Jarman lives in this loft in London. It is as full of character as a 200-year-old converted barn in the country. In the major living space Jarman has created a raised platform upon which the furniture sits. Tables and the bed-cum-sofa are low, heightening the room's sense of vast, horizontal space. To city dwellers. so used to small cramped rooms, tiny staircases, and vertical space distribution, the loft seems a vision-come-true of almost more space than can filled. Jarman fills the spacious whitewashed rooms with furnishings that not quite antiques, hammocks, large contemporary canvases, and a variety of primitive-looking objects.
, 1972.Labels: 1970s, derek jarman, dream homes, Interiors, London, underground interiors