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Meet Britain’s new wave of female interior designers, from the art aficionado to the colour curators BY TKTKTKTK

GUIDE Meet the female rising stars of Britain’s interior-design scene

The UK has been home to some of history’s best-loved doyennes of interior decoration. The 20th century saw the rise of the fabulously well-connected Lady Sibyl Colefax, who joined forces with John Fowler to form a thriving business they subsequently sold on to the Londondwelling American heiress Nancy Lancaster, known for her exquisite taste. More recently, the country has been blessed with the talents of Jane Churchill, her sister Melissa Wyndham and Nina Campbell, to name but three. Happily, there is a wave of new female talent set to follow in these esteemed women’s footsteps, whether by bringing an artfully old-world sensibility to contemporary spaces or subtly refreshing historic houses. We meet six of them.