Why Were the Tombs Filled With Art Jewelry and Other Treasures
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What makes projects special are the people living in them—only Tish and Tom are on a whole other level." So says Rachel Chudley, a British interior decorator known for funky-chic rooms that are full of surprises. The proper noun-checked clients would exist highborn Londoners Tish Weinstock, a Faddy writer and beauty editor, and Tom Guinness, a model turned soulful manner stylist. "Both take style with an edge," Chudley continues, adding that the finished product, a house for the couple and their toddler son, Reuben, "walks the line between old and new and bad taste and good gustatory modality."
Before taste of any kind could be explored, there had to be a property to decorate, and the couple were dandy on moving to 1 of London's highly coveted mews. "They are quite idyllic, don't have traffic—the streets dead-end—and are usually in pretty overnice areas, because the buildings were the coach houses at the back of large town houses," Guinness explains. The one that he and Weinstock, kid-free at the fourth dimension, settled on in The netherlands Park possessed a banal prefab advent, though, suggestive of a decades-old rebuild or renovation. Even so, it did have a rear garden, an unusual characteristic in almost mews. Architect Milan Nedelkovic of local firm Captain (with sage input from Weinstock's stepfather, Jonathan Sykes, a belongings developer) stepped in to reimagine the firm forth more than conventional lines, facing it with honey-colored brick, topping it with a mansard roof, and excavating a basement that at present houses a multipurpose living room. "It actually looks closer to what it could accept been," Weinstock says, "merely from the outside it's quite deceptive."
An antique suzani from Robert Kime is draped over a custom sofa in the morning room. Jamb fireplace surround; antique tapestry.
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Ane reason is that the rooms are suffused with sunlight—arable natural light is another singular mews characteristic—pouring through double-hung windows every bit well as a light well and strategic skylights. Another distinction is the idiosyncratic decor, which brings the subject back to personal preferences and parenting styles. "I get a bit of a kick out of the fact that we haven't made our house into a massive nursery," says Guinness, the youngest son of Lord Moyne and a grandson of Diana Mosley, the most beautiful of the legendary Mitford sisters. "Reuben has to learn to live with nice things." (Indeed, they count themselves charmed by the crayon marks on one sofa.) Those nice things—only a couple of lamps have been toddler casualties so far—run the gamut of materials, periods, and styles, from Art Nouveau bentwood chairs pulled upwardly to a table dressed in a brilliant suzani to a skeletal custom-fabricated fe bed set atop a vast 1970s sheepskin carpet that Chudley rightly calls "ridiculously shaggy." Light fixtures by Isamu Noguchi and Erik Höglund dangle from the ceilings, heirloom portraits hang in niches, and an ink-blue Chinese carpet bristling with trees and flying birds has been flung down on the dressing room's pale plank floor.
"Tom leans toward brutalism, and Tish gravitates to traditional pattern that really isn't in vogue correct at present," Chudley says. "There were quite a few lively debates among the three of u.s.." One of those conversations was over a flowered chintz sofa that Weinstock had desired but that only seemed all wrong to her once information technology arrived. "Nosotros moved it around the business firm for about 2 months" until it finally establish its happy spot, Chudley says. Which, to everyone's surprise—at least until information technology was relocated all the same again—was the basement living room, amid Le Corbusier chairs and black leather upholstery.
Guinness, Weinstock, and son Reuben in the antechamber. The portrait of Little Richard is by Marker Leckey.
Fornasetti malachite wallpaper, an Italian carved wood mirror, and an Onyx sink conjure a surreal mood in a pulverisation room.
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"Bravery in style comes from combinations similar that," the designer observes. "That'south why this was such a creatively thrilling project for me. The sofa needed to be combined with something that had an edge then information technology didn't look similar some onetime-school object on display." Helping with that blending is the found-filled light well—mirrored to increase both the sunlight and the leaf—a grand old Turkish carpeting, and an object that neither Guinness nor Weinstock ever felt that they would own: an antiquarian wall-spanning tapestry depicting a pastoral scene populated past sheep.
"We're so used to looking at screens and lights and dispos-able images, and and then yous're confronted with this 17th-century textile that's been crafted over time, which I think is very attracting. Y'all get lost in them," says Guinness, whose taste in art otherwise leans to the contemporary; Mark Leckey's 2003 portrait of Little Richard surveys the anteroom. He also found himself hugely enjoying shopping at several antiques-rich auctions, including the estates of AD100 star Nicky Haslam and Picasso biographer John Richardson. "That got us through a gummy lockdown," Weinstock says, noting that much of the decoration was executed while they were living on-site and caring for a newborn. "Like a lot of people confined to their houses and looking at the walls during the pandemic, we pored over interiors books and sale catalogs."
An antique suzani from Robert Kime is draped over a custom sofa in the morn room. Jamb fireplace environment; antique tapestry.
The forced domestic focus had some other bright side. "Part of what I do equally a author is to respond to popular civilization, just it's nice to disengage from all that and think virtually other periods and aesthetic movements," says Weinstock, an Oxford University fine art-history major. She recalls how she immersed herself in Guinness's reference library of art, architecture, and blueprint books during lockdown and found herself finally understanding, among other things, his attraction to the 1980s Memphis Group. As for Guinness, the stylist says, "I practice something new every day in my piece of work, so I'm non used to holding on to projects for so long, merely I've really enjoyed that here. This has been virtually designing the way you desire to live your life, what kind of person you want to be. Information technology'due south the externalization
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The best lesson? A lamp whose glass shade didn't survive Reuben'south grasp at present wears a paper replacement that turned out to be more complementary than either parent thought possible. "When something hasn't worked out, why lament it?" Weinstock says. "Come up up with a solution and move on."
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