Designed by Angel O’Donnell, this townhouse in Chelsea, London, is transformed with a beautifully layered mix of art, wallpaper, and colourful furnishings
With “gorgeous Goldilocks dimensions”, this classic stucco-front townhouse in London’s buzzy Chelsea neighbourhood already had great bones to work with.
The homeowners, a jet-setting couple who mostly lives overseas but whose children are attending boarding school in the UK, approached British interior design studio Angel O’Donnell to breathe life into the interiors with colour and splendour.
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“We were tasked with creating a quintessentially British pied-à-terre, which draws inspiration from the playfully print-filled and colour-rich boutique hotels of London,” says Ed O’Donnell, lead designer and co-founder of Angel O’Donnell. “The property needed a full decorative overhaul; the interiors were what you might call ‘lazy luxe’: greyscale and bland. It was reminiscent of a three-star chain hotel—respectable but nothing to write home about—and thus the potential was huge.”
Drawing on the clients’ love for London’s boutique hotels, O’Donnell sought to create a colourful three-bedroom sanctuary that also pays homage to the city’s rich heritage. “We firstly set about defining what ‘quintessentially British’ means to us,” he recalls. “We concluded that it’s about craftsmanship and the assemblage of unique and creative pieces. Once we settled on this definition, we worked on producing a series of lively and vivacious interiors filled with expressive prints, rich hues and beautiful detailing.”
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