REGENCY reinvention

Its historic bones give it grandeur, but designer Suzy Fairfield has ensured that her home is also warm and welcoming

- MARY WEAVER

A feeling of grandeur set against an elegant period backdrop was the vision for designer Suzy Fairfield’s exquisite Regency apartment – ‘but without the formality that can sometimes go with that,’ she says.

Suzy shares the large lateral flat, created on the second floor of two adjoining Italianate-influenced period townhouses, with husband David and the four children they have between them, Clara, 16, and Max, 23, who live at home, as well as Olivia and Josh, both 31, who live abroad – and dog Salty, a Sporting Lucas Terrier.