character study

Personality was in short supply in this pied-à-terre until interior designer Hazel Collins introduced art, texture and colour

- SERENA FOKSCHANER

interior designers can find inspiration in the most unlikely objects and places. It might be a swoop of paintbox-bright metro tiles framing the arch of an underground station. Or the shadows of elaborate metalwork thrown, like darkened lace, across a pavement on a late summer afternoon. But nothing is guaranteed to fire a designer’s imagination more than the sight of a featureless interior devoid of personality and detail. Or, in other words, the proverbial blank canvas.