“The living room has wonderfully elegant proportions, benefiting from lots of natural light via lofty bay windows” my favourite colour at Christmas is cobalt,’ enthuses Tricia Guild, founder and creative director of Designers Guild, the globally renowned homeware brand, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. ‘It’s surprising and to me, full of love,’ she says. Nowhere is this more vividly played out than in her London home, where she has quite literally splashed all the shades of blue and green found in nature, from soothing sea and summer sky to the depths of an evergreen forest, across walls, curtains and furniture. It also proves to be the perfect palette for complementing Christmas, when Tricia teams streamlined modernity with the feeling of the handmade. ‘At Christmas, I’m a traditionalist in…
