Fashion Designer
Rejina Pyo’s study is her sanctuary. “It’s such a luxury having a space all to myself that’s not the bedroom. It feels so grown-up,” says the designer of the small but perfectly formed retreat on the second floor of the Victorian terrace she shares with her husband and three-year-old son in north London. A reflection of the quiet, sculptural beauty of her namesake clothing label, it’s filled with books on Cy Twombly, hand-thrown pottery and a curation of designer finds. “I have a hard time buying new,” she says. “So I’m constantly setting Google alerts for my favourite designers.” Pyo’s “dream desk”, by the Swedish architect Axel Einar Hjorth, was discovered quite by chance in a Tetbury antiques shop during a friend’s wedding weekend, while the mid-century Italian chairs by Mobil Girgi were a lucky online auction find. Her latest addition is a painterly vintage Berber rug from Larusi. Woven from wool and recycled women’s clothes, its palette of browns and oranges and yellows is wonderfully simpatico with Pyo’s own muted collections. A place for research and reflection, it’s here, among these treasures, that the designer has the headspace to sketch and create. “Every time I look out of the window at our garden of firs and palms,” she says, “I feel calm.”