Wealden Times | WT215 | January 2020 | Travel & Wellbeing supplement inside

This page: Jane Churchill’s delightful
alphabet wallpaper looks great
in son Tom’s fun bedroom
back at the house from here, he
points out how they copied the
window on the half-landing to
make another for the guest loo.
We re-enter the house into the
kitchen, now a tranquil lofty space
big enough for a generous kitchen
table and a large island, which Alex
designed in collaboration with
deVOL. The walls are a Dulux white,
the worktops marble-effect quartz
– “because real marble just isn’t
practical” – and the tongue and groove
units are painted a soft mushroom.
Cupboards on the wall behind the
central island contain their collection
of the brilliant enlarged version
of the classic hand-painted Royal
Copenhagen pattern Musselmalet
(called Musselmalet Mega), which
Alex has arranged very satisfyingly in
asymmetric/symmetric formations.
His flair for object curation is on
show again in the dining room, where
white bookshelves are topped with two
large ginger jars, found on a trip to LA,
and arranged with collections of paired
objects, interspersed with piles of
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