Inside eight trend designers’ houses that match their house owners’ clothes aesthetic

When trend folks pour their creativity into their houses, the outcomes could be tactile interiors that guests might need they might put on. “You stroll into these areas and it simply blows your thoughts,” Australian photographer, creator and director Robyn Lea tells the BBC. Lea’s newest picture e book, This Artistic Life – Trend Designers at House, revealed this month, includes a catwalk of 18 houses, all owned by main trend creatives.

The e book derives from Lea’s curiosity in regards to the drive to design. “I am fascinated with the genesis of the artistic spirit, and the place that comes from – and why somebody must create,” she says. It is a work that explores, she says, “the synergy between the style design and the interiors, and the way they are surely one visible language”. These trend designers do not simply put on their designs, they inhabit them. “They do not see any delineation,” Lea provides. For them, the garments they put on and the houses they dwell in are “one and the identical factor”. Listed below are eight interiors from the e book.

The doorway to British designer Alice Temperley’s Regency manor home in Somerset, UK,  options Doric columns and an enormous disco ball. It is an aesthetic described within the e book as “bohemian-lady-of-the-manor meets rock chick”. Inside, the expertise is like swishing by way of rails of her glittery, richly-embroidered clothes. There are gold accents and sparkles throughout; daring, patterned textiles; and clothes, Lea writes, that “cling like work”. It is a residence that is “simply laden with material and color… It is a actually wild trip in there”. Within the library, a play of complementary colors sees a marmalade-coloured domed ceiling loom over royal blue sofas and armchairs. The swirls and animal prints of the seat covers come from a collaboration with textile-and-wall-covering designer Romo, the place Temperley London’s patterns and prints have been reimagined as homeware, embodying the pure concord between trend and inside design.

Properties and hats come collectively within the Melbourne and Castlemaine properties of Australian milliner Tamasine Dale. “She’s obsessive about the handmade,” Lea explains. As a baby she made issues and offered them at an area craft market. Her houses retell this story of compulsive trade and creativity. Pure, straw-coloured supplies that recall the weave of her hats characteristic closely. In her kitchen, for instance, we see clusters of hand-woven baskets and classic Marcel Breuer chairs made from woven cane. The milliner’s personal sculptures, ceramics and pottery are dotted all through her home. “Once more, it is that attraction to the three-dimensional type. You see her curiosity within the floor texture, but additionally the melding of that type right into a form that expresses magnificence to her,” says Lea. “So whether or not that is a bowl or a hat, it is coming from the identical place.”

Artistic polymath Luke Edward Corridor, who based his trend label Chateau Orlando in 2022, shares a stone farmhouse in Gloucestershire together with his husband, inside and furnishings designer Duncan Campbell, and their two whippets. His designs and collaborations draw on his love of the eccentric British higher lessons – striped waistcoats, patterned tank tops, corduroy blazers and velvet slippers – and these encourage and are impressed by his bucolic Cotswolds residence. A dresser stuffed with classic crockery within the eating room, an vintage Staffordshire canine watching over the fireside and pink floral wallpaper within the bed room all communicate to the nostalgic imaginative and prescient of England that permeates his designs. He says within the e book: “The boundaries between my work and personal life are very blurry, and all of the aesthetics roll into one, which is simply how I prefer it.”

The legendary Italian designer the Marquis Emilio Pucci (1914-1992), a renaissance man residing in a Renaissance palace, didn’t confine his artistic imaginative and prescient to trend, however launched fragrance and homeware – and even dabbled in automotive design. He was, says Lea, “one of many first full way of life model designers”. When his daughter Laudomia took over the reins, she went a step additional by introducing the label’s flamboyant geometric designs – in Emilio’s beloved fuchsia pink and turquoise – into Palazzo Pucci in Florence, the household’s ancestral residence. “She actually took the model, and introduced and guided it into the brand new century,” says Lea. “Not many individuals could be courageous sufficient to the touch a 14th-Century palazzo and produce a lot vibrancy and color into it.”

The daughter of an arable farmer and a dressmaker, it is apt that Jade Holland Cooper ought to design clothes impressed by the British countryside − suppose tweed subject jackets, quilted gilets and equestrian put on. This love of the outside can be conveyed within the household residence close to Cheltenham that she shares together with her husband Julian Dunkerton, the co-founder of clothes model Superdry, and their two youngsters. “Whether or not I am designing a room or the backyard or an merchandise of clothes, it is all the identical,” says Holland Cooper within the e book. Set in 160 hectares, the neoclassical Tub stone home is stuffed with pure wooden, brown leather-based and greenery, and includes a mudroom with rows of Holland Cooper’s sherpa-lined Wellington boots. The opened-up ceilings and vistas additionally draw the outside in. “She lives and breathes her model,” says Lea. 

“I felt like time had stopped after I stepped inside their place,” Lea says of the property that Gary Graham shares together with his accomplice, artist, collector and inside designer Sean Scherer. Graham is famend for his one-off designs that give vintage supplies a brand new life, so it is becoming that he ought to inhabit a Nineteenth-Century constructing that has additionally had a number of iterations – financial institution, submit workplace and division retailer – and that’s now crammed with repurposed classic furnishings and materials. The sleeping nook constructed right into a wall is a working example. “It simply appears to be like so cosy, do not you suppose? I need to get in there,” says Lea. “He developed that wallpaper from a classic ginger jar, and he is additionally used that very same motif for a few of his trend designs. It is all so related.”

“I am not an inside designer,” insists Selina Blow in This Artistic Life, but the saturated colors of her tailor-made velvets, silks and linens reappear within the colour-blocked décor of her 200-year-old Gloucestershire farmhouse. Blow attributes this love of color to her mom, who missed the intense colors of her Sri Lankan homeland, and so introduced them into the household residence. “I believe that is at all times been my factor, Gothic with robust colors,” says Blow. Her dramatic blue toilet, for instance, includes a black claw-foot bathtub beside a watchful row of masquerade masks and a bust carrying one in every of her beloved Philip Treacy hats. Inside designer or not, Blow’s daring aesthetic pervades. “It does take a number of braveness and confidence to color an entire room that actually vivid blue,” says Lea. “And then you definately see that in a jacket of the identical color that she wears.”  

The maximalist London residence of Lucinda Chambers, co-founder of trend label Colville and former trend director of Vogue, is a far cry from the squat she as soon as referred to as residence within the ’80s, however nonetheless accommodates the bohemian spirit of these early years, with mismatched materials in the lounge and a vibrant color scheme. Colville’s travel-inspired geometric patterns are throughout and, as together with her clothes, consolation is vital. Constructing an inside design, says Chambers, is lots like dressing. “Select a settee and desk earlier than including or subtracting different components,” she advises, “like including earrings, beads or a bag”. For Chambers, “no boundary” separates the 2 artistic kinds. “You beautify your physique such as you beautify the home you reside in,” she says.