Shared VISIONS
Every interior designer’s address book features key craftspeople they commission for items that cannot be found off the shelf. Furniture to fit a difficult space, paint effects, lighting beyond the ordinary, bespoke textiles, metalwork or an aspect of restoration can all on occasion need bespoke solutions, and interior designers build relationships with the craftspeople who can deliver them. Besides skill in executing the commissions, craftspeople must also be mind readers, digesting the designer’s thinking and returning it fully formed. ‘Found in translation’ is one way to sum it up. Here we discover the relationship between designer and craftsperson that results in true beauty.
Victoria Davar & Christopher Cox
VICTORIA DAVAR
Antiques dealer and interior designer, Victoria Davar, is well known for taking on the decoration of period houses, including the sourcing of antique furniture and lighting. For this Grade II listed Georgian mansion, Davar asked Christopher Cox of Cox London to design a significant chandelier for the large dining room. “I wanted a fitting that would relate easily with the antiques in the room but add lightness and simplicity to balance its grand scale and the furniture,” she says.
The kind of design Davar had in mind was realised as a bespoke version of the Genoese chandelier Cox London makes. “The gilded stem feels antique,” she says, “but the arms and metalwork have
