YELLOW LONDON
Liv Wallers and Cath Beckett discovered their mutual appreciation of interiors with a sense of fun while working together for the leading English decorator Joanna Wood, and joined forces in 2018 to launch Yellow London. The pair share a passion for pattern: their Ladbroke Grove studio is a maximalist’s heaven, brimming with jewel-coloured velvet swatches from De Le Cuona, hand-blocked parakeet-green chinoiserie wallpaper samples and embroidered borders from the Notting Hill-based fabric designer Susan Deliss. They extend some of this eccentricity to their use of textiles, as evidenced in their revitalisation of an Elizabethan manor in Gloucestershire. ‘Matching the bright-pink Christopher Farr wallpaper to the headboard was a pretty hard sell,’ Beckett says, ‘but it ended up being the owner’s favourite room.’
Another recent project – the parlour of a west-london townhouse – saw them create new cushions in a graphic grass-green fabric to decorate a pair of cane-work chairs that flank a much-loved antique mahogany dresser. ‘We love all things vibrant,’ says Wallers, ‘but when you can deploy colour and print to update a client’s existing set-up in an organic way, it’s particularly rewarding.’ www.yellowlondon.com