Using a colour palette influenced by her childhood in Hong Kong, interior designer Stella Weatherall has created a comfortable London house

I have always been an inveterate collector of stuff. I reckon it started when I was a small child with a trip to the white elephant stall at our local fete. I’d won the prize for the ‘Best Miniature Flower Arrangement’ and with the prize money burning a hole in my pocket I promptly spent

As the former Design Director at de Gournay, creativity is something India Holmes has in spades and the transformation of her London house proves it better than anything

At the Lacquer Chest, her fabled antiques shop in Kensington Church Street, Gretchen Andersen has a ringside seat from which to monitor and influence the shifting sands of our changing taste in things. When she started out, interiors magazines had yet to be invented. She took the shop