“I always think that my mother must have the second-best design eye in England. How could she not? From birth, she was surrounded by dazzling people, places, houses, and history, and then she married the great master of design, my father, who had the number-one eye. But perhaps I’m biased – they are my parents, after all.
So when it came to building and decorating our own home in England, much of what had informed our decisions had been drawn from the past and, particularly for me, from the three houses in which I had spent my childhood: Broadlands, Britwell and The Grove.
The past is always the place to start for inspiration. Its textures, tastes and visions are what shape us. In revisitation and remembrance, we bring back that…
