A Hong Kong interior designer transformed a couple’s rented apartment into a colourful, art-filled home Scott and Katie Evans’ flat on The Peak, designed by Ana Foster-Adams. Photography: Denice Hough
Having lived in their 2,330 sq ft apartment on The Peak for a few months, Scott and Katie Evans felt it lacked a bit of oomph and turned to interior designer and stylist Ana Foster-Adams for help. Our friends thought we were completely insane for investing in a designer for a rental property but we wanted to make it feel more like a proper home, says Katie, who has been in Hong Kong for more than a decade and works in finance.
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Interior design predictions for the year ahead, from Country Life’s guru Giles Kime.
The pelmet
Together with fabric-lined walls, a very deep chair and a roaring fire, there are few things more cosseting than a pelmet.
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They have the pulled-together look of a well-tailored suit and offer an additional buffer against light and sound. They’re a faff compared with a pole, but a faff that is definitely worth tolerating.
The flower room
Dreaming of an enormous open-plan kitchen the size of Wembley Stadium? Sadly that’s now a bit 10 years ago. The thinking person’s mega kitchen isn’t any smaller, it’s simply sliced up into spaces dedicated to specific purposes.
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Giles Kime picks out some of the finest interiors books of 2020 for those seeking inspiration in 2021.
In the era of Instagram and Pinterest, it might come as a surprise that the chunky interior-design monograph remains such an important resource. Yet well-thumbed books, such as Roger Banks-Pye’s
Inspirational Interiors and
A Life Of Design by David Hicks, have become an important part of their aesthetic legacies.
Not all interior-design books, however, are aesthetic totems. They also offer a brilliant way to celebrate something that has been overlooked, notably Bevis Hillier’s book,
Art Deco, which was published in 1968 and had a transformative effect on the way the style was perceived (as well as coining the term itself before that, it was known as Art Moderne). This year, the glittering prize in that category undoubtedly goes to Lulu Lytle for