Jessica Sainsbury runs hotels that are famed for being cool – and her
Edwardian villa is a mix of colour, pattern and texture, too
Jessica Sainsbury’s hall wallpaper is not best seen after a heavy night.
Great gloops of acid green and fuchsia weave up the stairs of the
Oxford house where she lives with her husband, a don at Worcester
College, and their four children.
The lurid colours would come as no surprise to guests of the grocery
heiress’s hotels – the funky Gloucestershire spa Cowley Manor, the
Michelin-starred L’Hotel in Paris, with its baroque jewel-box bar, and
the latest addition to her Curious Hotels chain, the Canal House, which
opened last year in Amsterdam.
“We asked fabric designers Sharmil Govindia and Sally Hemphill, whom we
used for Cowley, to make the wallpaper, because there wasn’t anything
out there with bright enough colours,” laughs Sainsbury, the daughter of
the former Conservative minister Sir Tim Sainsbury. “And then I
thought, what the hell, let them do the curtains as well”...
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