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The art of layering

NTIQUE textiles and rugs are often the starting point for Henriette von Stockhausen, creative director of VSP Interiors, whose schemes effortlessly look as if they have been collected over decades. In the case of this principal bedroom in a Georgian country house in Hampshire, it was an antique that acted as the catalyst. ‘I showed it to my client and suggested it could be made into a headboard,’ explains the Dorset-based decorator. provided was a combination of complementary colours, notably red and cream. ‘It set the scene perfectly and everything else flows from there.’

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