by Michael Costello | Sep 22, 2023 | Articles
Many of the properties Atkey and Company works on are listed. This means that everyone connected with the project – contractors such as ourselves, the architects, interior designers and the property owner – are required to adhere to a strict legal framework which...
by Michael Costello | Aug 7, 2023 | Articles
Do you consider architectural mouldings to be important when renovating or creating a new interior? Does the authenticity of architraves, skirtings boards, doors, window surrounds and other timber mouldings matter to you? And how much might they affect one’s...
by Michael Costello | Mar 15, 2023 | Articles
Northaw House in Hertfordshire has seen many changes in its layout over the past few hundred years. A Georgian manor house with multiple phases of later works, it retains many original features but hides almost as many more. With the development team away from site,...
by Michael Costello | Oct 24, 2022 | Articles
Photo Credit: Will Pryce for Country Life Working through Joanna Wood, the Interior Designer, Atkey and Company are proud to have created the period architectural joinery employed in the recent refurbishment of Monmouth House, Hyde Park Gate. Situated on a...
by Michael Costello | Jul 11, 2022 | Articles
Hampshire House – Video With multiple phase of work evident from the 17th Century onwards, Hampshire House required Atkey and Company to design period timber doors, architraves and skirtings to suit each area.Video run time: 2mins Hampshire House is a 15,000 ft...
by Michael Costello | Mar 22, 2022 | Articles
The Newt in Somerset – Video Atkey and Company’s sympathetic reinstatement of period timber doors and mouldings at The Newt, Somerset.Video run time: 1min 20secs The Newt is a destination hotel located in beautiful parklands in the Somerset countryside...
by Michael Costello | Nov 20, 2020 | Articles
It’s always gratifying to be involved in award-winning schemes, so we are delighted that a recent project for which we created bespoke period joinery has just won the Residential House Over £1m category of the SBID International Design Awards. Cause for a celebration?...
by Michael Costello | Oct 6, 2020 | Articles
Architects from the Regency period experimented with a wide range of styles, including Egyptian, Indo-Chinese and heavy Greek. The Regency Period in British history, and associated art and architecture, gained its name from the nine-year period, 1811 – 1820,...
by Michael Costello | May 13, 2020 | Articles
Probably London’s most desirable address, Belgravia is celebrated today for its outstanding architectural, historical and social interest. Belgravia is a late Georgian estate of terraces, crescents and squares situated between Knightsbridge and Victoria. The area...
by Michael Costello | Apr 14, 2020 | Articles
The Scottish born architect Richard Norman Shaw was the son of an Irish father and a Scots mother. A pupil of William Burn from 1849, he later travelled (1854–6) and published Architectural Sketches from the Continent (1858). Shaw...
