Coming into Focus

Abstract

The meeting takes place at Glyme Farm, a barn conversion that is a former project of MHW. Mary, the client on that project, now lives there with her husband and two children. We have come here because she is now employed as a design consultant on the project we are here to discuss. Client, turned friend, turned colleague. Tomas is joined by Phil and Milo who are here as representatives of the design team. They have done most of the design work, though it is Tomas who speaks most as the representative of their collective perspective. The clients, Hugh and Jenny, bought a 1970s house, which they originally planned to renovate but which, following initial estimates for the cost of this work, they now intend to demolish and replace....