Establishing A Retail Space Dedicated To Stylish Homeowners
Home & Decor Singapore|March 2020
Claire Warren recounts her journey towards establishing a retail space dedicated to stylish homeowners in Singapore.
Establishing A Retail Space Dedicated To Stylish Homeowners

When former fashion PR and editor Claire Warren moved to Adam Drive in 2015, she was stumped by how impossible it was to find rugs for her new home. “I didn’t want IKEA anymore but the only other option seemed to be really expensive, really elaborate carpets and with small children that just wasn’t going to work for us”, she explains. After almost a decade at Chanel and InStyle magazine in London, Claire was used to deploying her creative cunning and so she travelled to India and then Indonesia to find the solution, coming home with a small selection of wool dhurries and a handful of teak dining chairs. Unwittingly, her company The Grey House was born.

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