AD Magazine: MatchesFashion's London HQ Feels Like a Private Townhouse – Dan Thawley

Dan Thawley, AD Magazine, November 6, 2018

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Dotted throughout the stairwell, neoclassical busts by British artist Nick Hornby echo their classical surrounds. “It’s an anamorphic projection of Michelangelo’s David extruded to just short of 6 degrees,” explains Hornby of MatchesFashion.com’s new commission: an aerodynamic white suspension that hangs above the first-floor stoop. “When I saw the skirting and the architraves, I thought there would be a wonderful visual echo between the profile of the face and the architecture," he says.