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Beaverbrook Spa Surrey, UK


DESIGNED BY Brian Clarke, the spa at Beaverbrook Country Hotel’s Coach House is a work of art made up of mouth-blown stained glass, Venetian mosaic drifts of handmade ceramic cornflowers and poppies and tilework. Clarke’s paintings and prints also appear throughout.


custom-made blackout blinds help to enclose the space when required.


Millwork furniture customised by Studio MK27 exclusively for Patina Maldives incorporates practical and aesthetic design features that include bed frames with integrated control panels to concealed device charging compartments. Te interior specification includes furniture from a wide range of international brands, including Bassam Fellows, Lin Brasil, Gervasoni and Vitra for the indoor areas, and Dedon, Carlos Motta and Paola Lenti outdoors. Other features include monolithic standalone twin vanities made from Nero Marquina marble and basins hewn from a single block of stone, offset by bespoke Italian porcelain tiles and al fresco free-standing double bathtubs. studiomk27.com.br


Clarke said: ‘When they asked me to create an artistic environment for the spa at Beaverbrook, the idea appealed to me greatly because I consciously seek through my art in buildings to uplift the soul – and the spa historically, since Roman times and before, has sought to do the same. I derive considerable pleasure from thinking that the combination of the environment and the treatments that people receive there take away the weight of contemporary life, which is often so grim.’


Above The light from the mouth-blown stained glass windows plays against the colourful tilework and ceramic poppies


In the transept of the spa, the ceramic takes the form of a floor-to-ceiling grid of tiles made by Craven Dunnill Jackfield, separated by ceramic poppies that interrupt and overlap with regular rhythm of the rectilinear matrix, a decades-long exploration in Clarke’s working. Starting life as watercolours, the handmade ceramic poppies, cut to lock into the grid of tilework, were made to respond to the rich light of the stained-glass skylights. cdjackfield.com | beaverbrook.co.uk


ALL IMAGES: GEORG ROSKE


CRAVEN DUNNILL JACKFIELD


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