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Bold is Beautiful

The celebrated designer Anouska Hempel in her own Knightsbridge home

This Knightsbridge townhouse is a relatively new home for the celebrated designer and her husband, Sir Mark Weinberg – Hempel is known as Lady Weinberg outside the interiors world – who also have a place in the Wiltshire countryside. “We’ve been here about a year and a half. We inherited it and we’re still finishing it,” says Hempel. What does she think makes the different spaces she’s created around the world recognisably ‘her’? “It’s the juxtaposition of things, I think. It’s to do with height and balance and how I see it. That means playing around with huge volumes and small volumes, having fun with lighting. It’s light and shadow – and a bit of magic.”