How to make it Hoppen: Interior designer KELLY HOPPEN has brought her signature neutral style to her Cotswolds bolthole By Victoria Gray For You Magazine Published: 08:00, 21 September 2024 | Updated: 08:00, 21 September 2024 e-mail View comments Design is never just about what you see, it’s about how it makes you feel,’ says Kelly Hoppen , the multi award-winning British interior designer and author. DINING ROOM A ten-seater wooden table takes centre stage. The sleek Pixo 77 hanging lights are by formalighting.
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uk That philosophy has stood the 65-year-old in good stead, as she has been designing beautiful spaces and making people feel happy about their homes for 49 years. Her style is synonymous with a fusion of East and West aesthetics and, as the Queen of Taupe, her devotion to a neutral palette. Kelly Hoppen outside her ‘downtime’ home in the Cotswolds With an A-list client base that includes the Beckhams, Hoppen’s design projects take her around the globe, so it’s understandable she often craves the peace of country living.
She fell in love with the Cotswolds 25 years ago. ‘My friend Jo Malone rented a home on the Blenheim estate. I loved it so much I did the same for many years,’ she tells me.
‘Now my daughter Tash [Natasha Corrett, chef and food writer] and stepdaughters [actress] Sienna Miller and [fashion designer] Savannah Miller live in the area, too.’ Hoppen lives in London with her partner, re.