Home at Last

It Brit designer Jermaine Gallacher brings off-kilter verve and expert craft to his first residential project

- HANNAH MARTIN

It’s hard to keep pace with design polymath Jermaine Gallacher. One moment, he’s holding court at a snug table in Bistro Freddie, a hip Shoreditch restaurant he decorated. The next, he’s cracking open a beer at the South Bermondsey studio of metalworker Barnaby Lewis before zipping over to visit glassblower Miranda Keyes at her nearby live-work space. All the while, he talks fast, enthusiastically hopscotching among subjects, from Charles and Maggie Jencks’s postmodern mansion, the Cosmic House (“it’s high art, academic, and unashamedly fun all at once”), to raves—like the party he threw at Barts the Great church in November to launch the second issue of Ton, an irreverent new magazine he started with two friends.