Architecture
25/02/2026
One project that stood out to us last year was Sanchez Benton’s Pimlico store for JW Anderson. As we bid farewell to London Fashion week for another year, and await the London Design and Craft Weeks of March and May, it seems all the more fitting that we celebrate an amalgam of all those disciplines, and a few others, by an architecture practice we love to laud.
Sanchez Benton are always vying for the top spot of our favourite British practice and we have had the pleasure of working with them on the sales of their designs in the past.
Themes of their work are a commitment to quality of construction and materials, the fine calibrations of light and space and seemingly small re-imaginings of details that end up amplified in their settings.
It’s a balance that few achieve so well; creating spaces that belong without being pastiche, that juxtapose without jarring. Sanchez Benton also have the ability to achieve great success in the most subtle and sensitive of elevations through materials, tone and matters of scale. Their project on Redcross Way is a great story of re-use and responsive sourcing, and the result of pink fletton brickwork amidst a terrace of yellow stock is inspired.
Another favourite of ours is Wilton Way for its inventive connection between its natural elements and the cultivated materiality of its interiors. The Douglas fir extension is an amazing transition from one to the other and its harnessing of nature and the elements as experiences to be enjoyed from within; the dancing shadows cast by scotch pine and mimosa through the glazed oculus or rain on the glazed pitch. Each contribute to the lower living space becoming a feature rather than a compromise.
The JW Anderson storefront is a pride-inducing vision for Pimlico-ans; contemporary yet timeless, a refined foundation for the period red-brick it supports. In the low, afternoon light of the London winter the glowing symmetry of two large picture windows within a sturdy frame of the most sublime dark green, would undoubtedly have stopped Edward Hopper in his tracks. All this before entering.
For his Pimlico store Jonathan Anderson has discarded the hitherto subliminal rules of retail, favouring Sanchez Benton’s design for a series of intimate rooms, portrait-like vignettes and very careful, low, directional light. The concept is an invitation into a place of Anderson’s wants and likes, but in a personal setting, for which it feels an honour to be welcomed. Furnishings, ceramics, home textiles, artworks, tea, honey, garden tools; they all go together in life and who knows what you will come out with.
Despite its commercial intention, it feels like a home. It’s a concept that really resonates with us and our approach to capturing homes and their essences, recognising the things that make them homes, and communicating them to future custodians.
