Live / Work

*Edit: We are now working from our new studios in Glasgow & the Scottish Highlands

We’re lucky in Glasgow, to have an amazing Victorian building stock. Baillie Baillie work from a painstakingly restored garden flat in the city’s West End. The building is interesting - an unusual infill between two tenement gables - and had been approved for demolition before we became it’s custodians. It’s spacious enough to be functionally flexible, with robust, natural materials that have taken on a beautiful patina, and it has amazing natural light – all qualities that we look for in our own projects.

The work that we produce is embedded in our way of living. Responsible design is part of our lifestyle, from the functional objects we choose at home, to the products and materials we specify in our projects.

Like many others in these strange times around the outbreak of Covid 19, our appreciation of home and garden has been re-affirmed. Our homes are “our corner of the world”, as Bachelard said, and we think that the house can be a calming, inspiring and even a poetic place. We should ask more from the places we live - volume, atmosphere, generosity of space and light. The house can have all of these qualities.

The photo below was taken Caro Weiss, as part of her doorstep series. Interior shots were taken by Alexander Baxter.