CALM AND COLLECTED

This flat is being used by the family as a holiday home in London, so Cihan didn’t want to personalise the bedrooms too much, although she still needed to make them pretty. That was achieved with the De Gournay wallpaper in the wisteria print in the master bedroom. The colour is gently picked up by a Murano glass table lamp from Via Antica.

“We wanted to adopt a more muted colour scheme in the bedrooms,” says Cihan. “Grey and taupe dominate with a touch of colour in the form of the cheerful wallpaper, as well as the purple vintage table lamps I collected from a vintage store in Brussels.”

And the client’s reaction? Struck silent, in the happiest way possible—it took her a while to take in this painted jewel of an apartment, the very same flat that had been in her family for years.