‘I grew up with the American equivalent of English country style and I’ve always loved it’
Lily Woods, who was born and brought up outside Philadelphia and moved to London in the 1980s, has been an avid antiques collector since her early twenties. She laughs that she bought her late-Victorian terraced house “mainly because the four-poster bed fitted”. Ever since seeing the window displays of Colefax and Fowler’s Fulham Road store, she fell in love with the English style. “I grew up with the American equivalent of English country style and I’ve always loved it.”
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