workspaces

In 2000, having spent time working from a borrowed Manhattan loft, we designed this workspace at the top of our Edwardian, red-brick, terraced house in London.

It was a 3 month JHM project, to provide writing, meeting and small-scale rehearsal space.

Wilfred project managed and worked full-time on the three-man build.

In 2002 we bought this stone house in Corca Dhuibhne, at the extreme end of the Dingle Peninsula in Southern Ireland. The first language of Corca Dhuibhne is Irish (Gaelic) and its living tradition of music and storytelling is very strong.

Several decades previously this had been a “rambling house” – one in which the neighbouring community used to gather to talk and make music.

In an 18 month JHM project, Wilfred gutted and rebuilt the interior, providing writing and living space (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom), and restoring the high ceilinged, hard-surfaced central room, making it suitable for its previous use.

Both workspaces are practical explorations of JHM’s cultural values, pursuing a modernist discipline drawn from ecological awareness and respect for the work and skills of the past.

The internet is the virtual workspace that links the two physical spaces and allows us to work in either.