Pattern Play

What’s the secret to happy pattern play? Since becoming part of Parker and Jules I have been thinking about this ALOT,  for those that don’t, a few ground rules to start us off maybe? At P and J we worked across …

B is Best

At their inaugural design awards House and Garden awarded Beata Hueman interior designer of the year.  She’s been on my radar since House and Garden published her work early 2017. She’s an original, her interiors are colourful, witty and sophisticated …

Fly Away

It’s lock down here for the third time this winter, the wind is hurling outside, the snow heavy against the door and the sky still ominous, it’s an oppressive grey and white  vortex. I want to fly away to the …

Modern-Colour Masterclass

Emergency stop in Paris.  I know I said next stop India, but then work  distracted me, and  then,  much MORE importantly Valentino Haute Couture rainbowed into social media. A masterclass in modern colour and that translates into chic interiors seamlessly. …

A Visual Cleanse

As as the palette cleanse that New Year’s demands comes into focus, I am wondering which particular visuals from 2017 will stay with me for 2018.  Each year the mass of decorative images and insta-interiors streaming through a designer’s digital …

Parker and Jules

I am always intrigued by people’s creative process, what inspires them and forms their aesthetic. I like the dynamic and bounce of collaboration and how it takes you further working together – when you are truly team. Nancy Parker lives …

House Style

Have you been to Chatsworth? What this photo fails to convey, even in all its imposing gilded grandeur is the scale of the  Chatsworth. How the estate unfolds and encases you in its perfect peak valley setting, a 1,000 acres …

Where do you draw the line?

I picked up the Farrow and Ball book, How to Decorate, its function, to simplify the often fraught process of decorating: the myriad choices that natural light, paint and architecture actually present.  It highlighted a few simple design rules which …

Chinese Whispers..

There’s been quite a bit about false-news and echo-chambers recently, how you need to check several sources,  delve deeper than your primary news feeds.  Well if that’s the case with the present… what about the past? Chinese whispers down the …

Christmas List 2016

Is it really Christmas ? What 2016. I have just emerged from the 18th century… Yes really, countless house visits and lectures later, essay in, exams finished . But oh have I feasted… visually replete and synapses still fizzing. Time to …