Six of the best: cheeky interiors gifts for Valentine’s Day
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Here's our pick of the best interiors buys for your loved one this Valentine's Day...
Cheeky 50s Housewives wallpaper by Brighton artist Emily Dupen from Dupenny Illustration and Design is inspired by mid-century pin-up art and the days of seamed stockings and suspenders. It’s 52cm wide and £180 per 10-metre roll or £75 for a three-metre panel.
Inspired by The Temptation of Saint Hilarion, a painting at The Wallace Collection in W1, Temptation homeware from Melody Rose includes this cup and saucer, £36.
Sexed-up china by London designer Tina Tsang is seen in posh eateries including Sketch in Mayfair. Intricate Victorian lace and the “legs” on a vintage powder puff started it all off. The Blaue Blume ice cream dish is £45. At £37.90 each are tea and espresso cups and saucers, and a teapot is £65. Visit Undergrowth Design.
Glam lip cushions in fine wool needlepoint with velvet backs cost £165 each at Jonathan Adler.
In the workshop beneath Jimmie Martin, the Kensington HQ of Jimmie Karlsson and Martin Nihlmar, the interior design duo produce some of London’s most outrageous original furniture.
Their stand at last month’s Maison et Objet lifestyle and decor fair in Paris was love on acid, a mad mash-up of hearts, arrows, flowers and Renaissance imagery on cupboards, chests, lamps, textiles and accessories.
“I guess we’re just in love with love,” says Karlsson, who hand paints most of the furniture. This Renaissance mannequin floor lamp is £3,700.
