What I ve learned from moving from the city to the country - twice over
Designer Tabitha Webb’s renovated Hampshire home reflects the bold prints she s known for. But getting there was far from straightforward
17 April 2021 • 6:00am
Tabitha Webb in her garden room, wearing a shirt from her new collection with stylist Angie Smith
Credit: Emma Lewis
Tabitha Webb’s move to the countryside hasn’t exactly been a breeze. The fashion designer and author first moved from London to Hampshire around six years ago with her husband Gavin and their daughter Betsy, now nine. ‘We were renting down the road from here as a kind of trial,’ she says, ‘and we’d been there for about two years when I said to Gavin, “I can’t be here any more, I’ve got to go back to London.” It was so much harder living outside the city, with work.’