In her Victorian villa in Kent, Olya Lammas has excelled at the art of balance. She has dovetailed the house’s heritage with slightly contemporary touches and blended feminine, floral patterns with more masculine designs. But on a deeper level, she has blended past and present, by tapping into the house’s past.
Olya was given the keys to this home personally by the previous owner. “She passed them over, saying, ‘I know the house will be in good hands’,” remembers Olya. That owner was a French artist, whose husband had written