Plumbing the depths: Duo dig deep for inspiration

The result is the Home from Home collection, a bed, chests of drawers and lamps created in the James Plumb signature style. The bed, for example, is made of materials that Russell and Plumb found in, and reclaimed from, Orlandi’s vast archives – in the cantinas that sit below the store, and in her homes. Because Orlandi’s family, as Hannah Plumb says, ‘used to be involved with fashion’ and because Orlandi ‘doesn’t throw anything away and is a great hoarder’, they had plenty of room – and rooms – in which to find inspiration and raw materials.

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