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. …

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 …

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 …

Trianon Today

Some buildings and their interiors  never fade from sight, they are too influential,  defining a style, a high-point in taste and design which become a touchstone for  subsequent generations.  Petit Trianon’s restrained neo classical elegance,  decorated to reflect the charm and …

Make mine a Pavilion

The Chinese Pavilion at Drottingholm the ultimate birthday present and example of Chinoiserie

The Queen’s Taste: Trianon

I finally went to Versailles, it was Monday the palace was closed to the public and we echoed through the vast space of the state apartments, I could have cart wheeled through the Hall of Mirrors…WHY didn’t I? I suppose …

Spring Green

Don’t tell anyone but I keep nearly crashing the car, May is the giddy climax of our English spring  and it’s so beautiful I keep on wanting to pull over/swerve wildly.  So far disaster averted.  You think I’m exaggerating? Well …