Table of Contents: London Calling

We’re excited to be hosting our first Remodelista London Market this Saturday, November 15, organized in conjunction with The New Craftsmen and held at the collective’s exhibition space in Mayfair. In anticipation, we’re devoting this week to our latest favorite UK design discoveries, including a new Bloomsbury-style farmhouse (for rent), an Oscar winner’s classic English kitchen, plus work by several stars of our forthcoming London show.

N.B.: We’ll also be hosting Remodelista Markets next month in SF and LA; here are the details.

• Michelle McKenna draws color from the gray skies of London in her restored Clerkenwell townhouse. See The Power of Pastels: A London House Reimagined, and the New Romantics in the Remodelista book.
• Worth the pilgrimage: A just-opened art center in Somerset comes complete with farmhouse lodging. Julie leads the tour in today’s Hotels post.
• Stylist Kirsten Hecktermann makes the nicest velvet Cushions we’ve ever come across–and will be selling her hand-dyed designs at the Remodelista London Market. Take a look in the first of our Market Spotlights.
• A new housewares shop in Brighton specializes in the tried and true. Watch for Tuesday’s Shopper’s Diary.
•  On Wednesday, Meredith shows us London’s talk-of-the-town Restaurant, in a sprightly palette we plan to replicate.
• Remodelista London Market vendor Tilly Blue specializes in convertible furniture. The table, above, turns into a suitcase; discover what the other pieces transform into in Thursday’s Market Spotlight.
• Live like a Londoner, even if you’re just passing through. On Friday, Meredith presents our Editors’ Picks short-term London Rentals, including this one available from Airbnb for $131 a night.
• This weekend, we’re inaugurating a new monthly Kitchen Conversation. First up: We’re presenting the work of design/build duo Jersey Ice Cream Co., and owners Percy Bright and Tara Mangini will be on standby to answer your kitchen questions and quandaries. Like the looks of this example? Go to The One-Month Makeover: Beth Kirby’s Star-Is-Born Kitchen.