
Notting Hill: An artists Studio
Lovely 3.8 ceiling heights and large original artist studio windows gave us great scope when we devised and started with a blank shell canvas. We installed a five minutes old , looking three hundred years old, Parquet de Versailles oak wood floor. The walls are French upholstered with extra double width taffeta. Very heavy iron antique ( what I think are architectural ) rain hoppers mount on custom foundered brackets add a different tone for decoration and juxtapose well with

A London Townhouse
For this young professional couple we were given carte blanche to some degree which was nice. On a very limited budget we had fun with finishes and colour ( we don’t do beige anyway) and have since been commissioned for similar funky, colourful and contemporary schemes for other young families. A bedroom featuring two different troupe l’ceil wall finishes. A cream grid throughout with an overscale foliage wall panel in grey with tonal faux leather headboard. A Chanel throw ac

A House in Eastern Europe
The conversion was from a large old building in to two identical three story houses . The clients were two brothers and we did one of the houses. We commissioned a huge glamorous chandelier to view through three floors. We used plain toughened glass for the stair balustrade finished with a leather rapped handrail. The bedroom floor hallway featured a contemporary mosaic wall that we also commissioned from London. The project was a razed site with new build and foundations on

Interior Designer Stephen Ryan - On the history of beds.
The modern bed has a hugely illustrious history . Basically of two parts, the frame and the mattress , the former conveying style and status, with the latter, an ongoing search for comfort. The first known mattresses were probably made from leaves, grass and straw and covered with animal skins. If you thought waterbeds ( I’ve never tried one although would be intrigued to now, covered in silk/satin sheets, one would fly everywhere ?) were a 1970’s invention, behold, the ancie

2018 Interior Design Trends
It is seemingly time for the ‘Trend Forecast’ stuff again. So these are just a few things that have been ‘occurring’ in my own zeitgeist ……… Firstly, millennial pink ( ? ) as others have called it, that I love and predicted at least six years ago ( again) is still in. I only refer to baby through to peony , not that insipid beige cami knicker pink that people play safe with. On from the right pink, we can lead to pastels , all colours but with the same subtle tonality that yo