Surrey Homes | SH79 | August 2021 | Adding value to your property supplement inside

Previous pages: In the dining room, a table by John Alfredo is illuminated
by a mid-century pendant light. Opposite the run of kitchen units
hangs a bold artwork of Little Richard by Turner Prize-winning artist
Mark Leckey Above: The knocked-through first floor living space now
comprises the sitting room with a garden view window to the right
and the kitchen/dining room with a street view window to the left
Right: The chimney niche on the left is filled by a John Alfredo cabinet
When it comes to the dream team of people to transform
a run-down maisonette into an apartment with the kind
of quiet sophistication normally seen only in big cities,
Beatrice Ancillon and John Alfredo Harris are pretty much it.
Paris-native Beatrice deals in 20 th century furniture and special
contemporary pieces in her elegant shop, Ode Interiors, in Hastings Old
Town. John Alfredo, meanwhile, is an internationally acclaimed furniture
designer and maker, working in wood from his Hastings studio.
The combined effect of their different specialist expertise can
be seen in every square metre of the apartment (it really isn’t a
flat…). Immediately inside the front door, on the wall to the
right is an installation of hand-turned wooden mushroom-shaped
pegs, of different sizes, creating a practical area for hanging
coats and bags, which is more like an art installation.
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