design flair
what i’m into this month 1 The new collection we’ve designed for Lights & Lamps (top right and on page 48). I particularly love the Spanish marble lamp bases in strong, earthy browns. 2 My new bar stools from Cox & Cox – one of the last finishing touches for my kitchen. 3 Zoffany’s True Matt paint range – it really doesn’t scuff! I just finished reading Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld’s 2020 novel imagining an alternate reality in which Hillary Clinton never married Bill. It was a fascinating concept, brilliantly done, a ‘what if ’ taken to utopian levels made all the more depressing by the actual outcome of the 2016 election, and has had me pondering my own Sliding Doors-style moments. Decorating, you see, is full of them – of choices you could have…