
What are the essential ingredients for a London interior? How we live in the capital as opposed to other international cities such as Paris, Rome or Madrid may boil down to a uniquely British predilection for throwing out the rule book when it comes to design.
That’s thanks in part to some big personalities who’ve paved the way, from the English country-house style of Colefax and Fowler in the mid-20th century to the soft modern schemes of Terence Conran a few decades later.