Project Space
“I used to be really scared of this area,” says the artist Francis Upritchard of London’s Hackney district, where she and the furniture designer Martino Gamper share a charmingly quirky three-story apartment in a public housing project — what the British call a council flat. “When I went with the estate agent, there were eight students living there and it was filthy,” she recalls of the flat, which she bought six years ago. “The living room was two different rooms.” (more…)
