Wealden Times | WT201 | November 2018 | Gift supplement inside

This page: The wallpaper in the guest bedroom is by
Pip Studio. The Warhol print of Jackie O has a family
connection – Annemarie’s mother was nanny to Caroline
Kennedy’s children
The room is covered in a trompe l’oeil wood panelling
wallpaper, designed by an art student that Annemarie
discovered. “I thought I had bought five rolls,” laughs
Annemarie, “it was in fact five drops. I needed eighteen
for the room. That was an expensive mistake and I
had to save up and get some more, but luckily I’ve
made the pattern work all the way around the room.”
And work it does. The matt finish of the paper mimics
the library or drawing room of a grand house. “It’s my
Downton Abbey room, and it’s where me and all my
girlfriends come and gossip with a glass of red wine.”
On the table are a series of clocks and against the wall
are a stack of vintage suitcases that Annemarie used
for the set dressing for her stand at Goodwood Revival
(every September). Where does she buy her antiques?
“Oh all over the place, in Hastings I love
Up the Garden Path, I go to the big boot
sale in Icklesham and all over in Bexhill-on-
Sea. In Lewes I go to May’s Antiques.”
Annemarie tells me with delight about the
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