House and Garden February 2023

LUCINDA GRIFFITH / INTERIOR DESIGNER After working with Emma Burns at Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler as a design assistant, Lucinda became a consultant: ‘I wanted to offer a service for people who don’t have the budget for an interior designer. I help clients to reflect their personal style.’ In the 10 years she was with Emma, Lucinda learned the importance of ‘giving a house roots and heart, while keeping the decorator’s touch light’. She also takes inspiration from John Stefanidis, Beata Heuman and Roger Banks-Pye, whose work she describes as ‘clever and joyful – and it always looks so comfortable’. This is key in her projects: ‘Comfort is crucial. It doesn’t matter how good your interior looks if people are reluctant to sit in it.’ Her own cottage in Wales…

For a few years now, we have been watching the progress at Wolterton Hall, a remarkable and very personal restoration and reinvigoration of a magnificent Norfolk country house. So it is with great excitement that we are including it in this February issue (from page 92) in its full glory – staggeringly grand but also very much a home. Not long before this issue went to press, Wolterton was announced as the joint winner of the Historic Houses Restoration Award for 2022 and also as the winner of The Georgian Group’s Architectural Award for the Restoration of a Georgian Country House – and rightly so. When the nights draw in – whatever the size of your house – most of us seek a feeling of cosiness and comfort, and now more…

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