Belle

Hannah in wonderland

Hannah Cecil Gurney, daughter of de Gournay founder Claud Cecil Gurney and now director of the handpainted wallpaper company, has lived in a wonderland of wall coverings since childhood. So it’s little surprise that her London home is a fabulous fairytale of colour and pattern. As you wander from one room to the next, you turn the pages on a journey of the imagination that whisks you off to exotic Indian waterways, ancient Chinese gardens and the sweeping African savannah – the latter graced with wading pink flamingos.

She shares these fantastical flights of fancy with her husband Edward Harden, four children and two dogs in a handsome three-storey

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