A romantic Georgian house in the Scottish Highlands
In Gaelic, Tulliemet – derived from Tulloch Mod – means the good hill. When textile designer Jane Bonsor inherited Tulliemet on the Atholl Estates in the Scottish Highlands, in 2018, she had more than a hill to climb to address the challenges of the land, which encompassed a working farm, ancient woodlands, a large flock of sheep, a herd of continental cattle, and a Georgian house in need of restoration. As the co-founder of Korla textile and design house, and creative director of Borderline, Jane has the benefit of an interiors background and instincts that suggested she should start with the house to establish a base. But she quickly realised that the land was deteriorating and that focusing only on the house would be a costly mistake.
A doll’s house maker’s life-sized townhouse filled with whimsical details
It’s not quite Christmas every day at Lucy Clayton’s London house, but joy is ever present. Lucy is one half of The Kensington Dollshouse Company and produces exquisite fantasy worlds for a living. It would be too neat a comparison to call this a grown-up doll’s house (not least as it was finished before Lucy co-founded her company with her mother in 2023), but it’s tempting. It was not always thus. When Lucy bought the house 16 years ago with her then husband, it was all ‘1990s hotel-lobby minimalism’, so she called upon interior designer Ben Pentreath to work his magic on the space.
A French chalet with a somewhat English sensibility
Nicole Salvesen, one half of the London-based interior design studio Salvesen Graham, discovered Chalet Sarcleret in the summer of 2021, just as the post-pandemic property market began to stir. Built in the 1990s by a local family of farmers-turned-ski instructors, it had charm but also several limitations. Its small rooms, awkward layout and glut of orange pine might have tempted others to tear it down and start again. Instead, she decided to work with the existing structure, commissioning a local architect to rethink and extend the house, before decorating the interiors in her signature English country house style. The result is a charming home for all seasons, richly layered with colour, pattern and texture.
At home with actor Joely Richardson in London
‘Did you think I’d be chintz?’ says Joely Richardson wryly. ‘I imagine some people would.’The actor, who is enjoying a sparkling renaissance with recent roles in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, One Day, The Gentlemen and Bookish, looks the antithesis of the colourful and the floral as she stands in her sitting room. As do the rest of her surroundings in the London flat in which she’s lived for the last 25 years. The ground floor and basement of the mid-19th-century, Grade II-listed terraced house she occupies has grand proportions and is full of original features. But the real showstopper is the kitchen, which appears on the cover and was created in partnership with her longtime friend, the filmmaker Gaby Dellal. Read the full story here.
