Virginia Clark
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Why weâll never tire of the palm motif (opens the original)
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There are few decorative motifs quite so capable of transporting us to other times and places as the instantly recognisable palm tree. It can conjure a Mediterranean terrace, a tropical beach, an Egyptian temple or the faded glamour of old Palm Beach â sometimes all at once. It is exotic, but familiar, and remarkably easy to stylise. No wonder the palm has been appearing in interiors for centuries, and is still finding its way onto fabrics, wallpaper, tiles and tableware today. Part of its app
A 200-year-old stone cottage in Yorkshire transformed with joyful colour and pattern (opens the original)
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When Cath Beckett, one half of interior design studio Yellow London, decided to leave her London flat after nearly 20 years there, she didn't have to think too hard about where she was going. North Yorkshire was calling her back. ‘I wanted a change from London, and Yorkshire is home,’ she says. The brief was straightforward: a traditional stone cottage in a rural location close to her parents’ house, with outdoor space and enough bedrooms to have friends and family to stay. The search didn’t las
Is there any such thing as a house that feels too âlived-inâ? (opens the original)
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Age, as most interior designers would agree, is an absolutely essential component of a good interior. The layered, evolved nature of the country house look, in which rooms are built up over time and by successive generations, has given British design a great attachment to antique furniture, faded chintzes, and objects whose sheen of newness has long since disappeared. The great decorator John Fowler, who, along with his business partner Nancy Lancaster, specialised in this look, called it âple
The specialist makers Britain's best interior designers turn to again and again (opens the original)
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There are many skills an interior designer needs to have to elevate rooms from so-so to sublime, but one of the most crucial is collaboration. Buying off the shelf can only take you so far, and every good interior designer will work with specialist makers to design pieces especially for a given room, and produce them with exquisite craftsmanship. Whether it’s a perfectly proportioned bookshelf that fits around beams and wonky ceilings, a rug woven in a bespoke palette, or a unique mural painted
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