London-based interior designer Hollie Bowden is a self-described “minimal maximalist.”In a New Gallery Space, Hollie Bowden Shows Off Her Talent for Sourcing Minimal Maximalist Vintage Objects.She has a way of adding the surprising elements that wind up feeling completely necessary to any given project. 

After working as a stylist, florist, and set designer, Bowden launched her own studio in 2013 and has spent the past decade conceiving of dreamy domestic and retail spaces. As an extension and natural progression of her studio work, she opened The Gallery, an appointment-only shop located next to her Shoreditch headquarters.

Over the years and through the course of her travels, Bowden has acquired hundreds of pieces, a number of which are now available for purchase at The Gallery. Inside you’ll also find a changing variety of textiles, tableware, artworks, and ceramics like a porcelain walrus that Bowden found in Mexico or a pottery whale by Canadian artist Sylvie Cauchon. Into this mix, Bowden is also bringing new pieces she’s designed and produced with her partner, furniture-maker Byron Pritchard, like the ‘Ebb’ side tables, constructed of live-edge walnut, which nod to the spare elegance of mid-century Japanese design by Noguchi and Nakashima.

“I never want any generic pieces in The Gallery. Every piece [there] is unique and tells a story – some pieces are extremely rare, some from anonymous designers, and some are self-evidently one-offs,” Hollie Bowde says. The emphasis is distinctly “on decorative, sculptural, and theatrical pieces all underpinned by the handmade, natural materials and craft,” whether they’re figurative or more abstract.