Curry House

On a side street in Walton on the Naze, we turned a former Indian restaurant into The Nose: part bookshop, part café, part project space, and a home for the town’s creative life.

The conversion holds on to the building’s history. Remnants of arches recall the former restaurant, and the colourful facade still does its old job of drawing people in off the street. New rooflights wash the ground floor in diffuse daylight, while encaustic tiles reclaimed from a temporary exhibition were carefully cleaned and relaid as a carpet of colour, knitting the different spaces together.

Inside, a small bookshop, a café and a flexible project space host talks, film nights, workshops, exhibitions and local group meetings.