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Founded in the 1930s, Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler is one of the most respected interior decorating firms in Britain, with individual teams of designers and their assistants handling a wide variety of projects. This unique approach gives each designer scope to exercise his or her particular skills whilst maintaining the company’s guiding principles of elegance, comfort and practicality. Sibyl Colefax & Fowler’s new generation of decorators are as used to creating 21st century interiors as they are working on important historical buildings, where their extensive knowledge of traditional detailing is second to none.

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