Wealden Times | WT191 | January 2018 | Interiors supplement inside

Above: Another door from the dining area leads through to a generously sized bedroom, painted in Farrow & Ball Skimming Stone.
A striking arrangement of framed flower prints hang over the headboard, taken from a book called the The Temple of Flora by a
botanist Robert John Thornton
cross…). “In summer it’s twenty minutes’ walk across
the fields to Dorking station,” says Richard “and then
it’s under an hour to London to Waterloo or Victoria.”
With that cruisy commute and Tanya’s parents nearby,
suddenly living in the country made total sense – even
for people with glamorous careers in high-end fashion
retail (Richard) and the film industry (Tanya).
The challenge was to make their new country
home work for their 21st century lifestyle and the
sophisticated mid-century style furniture they’d
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