LIVING ROOM
Painting the shutters and architrave in the same dusty pink tone brings a chic uniformity to this scheme.
Walls in Setting Plaster, Farrow & Ball. Sculpture (left of fireplace), André Bloc. Painting, Jacques Nestlé
home profile
THE OWNER
Swedish-born fashion designer Filippa Knutsson who set up her sustainable fashion brand, Filippa K, in 1993. She lived in the house with her children Nina, 25, Tom, 22, and Dylan, 19, from her previous marriages.
THE PROPERTY
A Georgian town house in Islington, north London, built in 1828 and laid out across five floors. The lower ground floor has two bedrooms, a utility room and cloakroom. The ground floor has a dining/living room, kitchen and cloakroom and leads out to the garden. On the first floor is another living room and home office. The second floor has the master bedroom and large en-suite bathroom. The third-floor bedroom has an en-suite bathroom and balcony.
HALLWAY
The original panelling from 1828 was restored and new solid oak floorboards were laid.
Flooring, Havwoods. Sisal stair runner, Alternative Flooring. Walls and woodwork in Cornforth White, Farrow & Ball
When Filippa Knutsson grew up in Chelsea in the 1970s she remembers the north London borough of Islington as ‘feeling like the end of the world’. Yet several decades later, she honed in on Barnsbury, finding it the ideal location for her home, which has recently been sold through The Modern House.
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