TRUE GRANDEUR

A walk around interior designer Rose Uniacke’s London home illustrates the power of exquisite craftsmanship and pared-back design

‘Once we stripped it, the house was sublime,’ says Rose. ‘It felt like an abandoned palazzo with extraordinary volume in the rooms and wonderful layers of distressed colors from years of decoration. I was determined to retain – I hope you can feel it – a real sense of the empty house, a sense of the space in its very simplest form. But it couldn’t be cold or daunting or too grand, and it had to welcome.’