St Johns Wood Heritage Home

A beautiful LA family chose to live in a heritage home in central London with large gardens. 

The family originally came from Michigan from a potato farming background and from Sri Lanka. This mix of cultures has infused the house with interesting art from all over the world. The family are well traveled and very well educated which shows within the choice of art, photography, masks from Africa and drums and bells from India.

The family entertains many guests from the banking world and from the universities in the USA where the wife works remotely. They commissioned a Spanish graffiti artist to create a family portrait so the furniture and lighting had to flow with the art.

In the sitting room we made a bespoke sofa that is 4 meters long to sit under the family portrait. We chose a natural background so there was no clashing of textures and colours with the art. 

The family is more drawn to autumnal colors. Taking into consideration the graffiti portrait we made bespoke, cushions to accessorize the sofa and added an Andrew Martin Shagreen coffee tables and a natural large rug.

We made bespoke stools to sit under the brass console tables. We covered the stools in De Le Cuona  organic fabric. The stools can be used as an extra 4 seating or a small tables. The curved edges of the stool add softness and is in harmony with the natural armchairs. 

To add character we decided to go for a more musculin leather brown armchair to add some depth and contrast. We do love playing with shapes and textures in our design.

The choice of design of curtains we decided to go more conservative and traditional. No fuss and no frills as we felt the art dominants the room enough.

They commissioned a Spanish graffiti artist to create a family portrait so the furniture and lighting had to flow with the art. The different choice of lights, floor standing is brass and mix of silk shade. The table light is also from british company Oka as we loved the texture of the leather base and linen shade. The walls and ceiling lights are traditional in keeping with the home.

The billiard room have Aborigini pieces of art from Australia, India as well as from their hometown so all the furniture was chosen to connect with the art .We made bespoke cushions seats from the two wooden chairs that came from India.. We used british orange cotton fabric from Linwood and piped it with leather orange pipping from Samuel and Sons. We do love mixing fabrics and trimming even if it’s so slight, but we feel it adds depth to the room. Less is more and when it comes to detailing that what makes the room stand out.

The dining room we once again added texture to their original pieces of art and furniture. The red rug came from Sri Lanka and the tapestry also came from Sri Lanka. We decided to add a natural  sideboard with texture and brass and made extra bespoke green stools for the bay window .

The dining table and arm charis came from their travels.