LUCY BARLOW

Being one half of a dynamic duo seems to suit Lucy Barlow, who co-founded her eponymous studio Barlow and Barlow with her brother Max, a lighting specialist, in 2013. When he (entirely amicably) decided to go solo last year, her husband Joshua Sear, an architect and builder, stepped in – and with eight projects currently on the go, business is booming. ‘We can now do a house top-to-toe, from re-terracing the garden to picking the fringing for an ottoman,’ she says. Indeed, embellishment is a constant in her interiors, whether tassels, braiding or any permutation of passementerie – a collection of which Barlow is about to launch in collaboration with the weaver Jessica Light. ‘I tend to channel the English country-house style, but for a younger generation,’ she says. ‘I don’t want a room to feel too precious – there’s always a bit of happy clashing.’ www.barlowandbarlow.com