1932 English Cotswold

The long living room runs between two fireplaces on near black floors. Two teal velvet sofas face each other across a blue lacquer table of Chinese line, a Platner chair in pale blue at one end, a caned campaign chair at the other. Walls and curtains stay the colour of unbleached paper, so the room's incidents carry: rose damask and star cushions, a ribbon painting over one sofa, a glass jar of oranges, Murano glass catching the afternoon on a brass and glass table.

Elsewhere the house is collected rather than decorated. A Korean chest with iron hardware holds a lamp painted with an ideal city; a Japanese screen shelters a working desk; a grouping of round mirrors climbs the stair beside a green runner. The kitchen keeps its mosaic backsplash and tribal runners and opens to a small sitting end with a tulip table and aubergine seating. The main bath is travertine end to end, with a teak bench run the length of the shower and a niche of starfish and coral.