How Interior Designer Laylah Holmes Moved From Handbags To Homes

And tell me more about the actual Thames collection because it's, so the colours are very reminiscent of the colours of water and shimmering, but also texture as well.

Yes, exactly.

So I

wanted it to be a very, very textural collection using lots of different fibres, different techniques, so from loop pearl through to cut pearl, carving, shag pearl, silk, wool, and we've also got some kind of bronze and gold lyrics in there and but in a subtle way so it's yeah it was very much inspired by water by the Thames and by you know those shimmering so when you're sitting there so there's these beautiful pubs along here lovely fun pubs in the summer and it's always crowded and you can go and sit down by the pub and you look out And literally the way the light hits the water and that shimmering sparkle just, it feels like holiday, doesn't it?

I think also what I love about what you do is the shape of the rugs.

They're quite organic and I guess you can have whatever shape you want.

Whatever you want.

So everything's completely made to order.

So you can change to, for example, we had a client in on Friday who loves that oyster rug, but she wants it in beautiful kind of greens and minty green tones, almost like this table.

So she wants those kind of misty green tones.

So we're just redesigning it in those tones for her.

So you can completely change them in any way you like.

And I think for the collection, it was really important for us as well to not just do rugs.

So you'll see here in the bedroom, we have a fitted carpet, which was designed... especially for the room with this kind of these waves that almost flow around the bed and so it was to showcase that we do do fitted and we work on projects such as yacht projects and we often do fitted carpets for yachts and we do runners we do lots of tapestries you can see here and they don't have to be your traditional type of tapestry which hang on a pole with some tassels as you would imagine these are kind of really they're installations on the wall so you can have any shape you can have really you know you can do such beautiful things for the wall as well like

art i think when i went into the bedroom here and you've got that fabulous natural matte bed with one of your quite chunky designs on the headboard And then you've got this incredible silk, ginger lily, beautiful silk bedding.

The carpet is an absolute revelation because if you'd said to me, Carol, I can make you a carpet with a bit of gold in, I'd have gone, oh, thanks, Liz, but no thanks.

No thanks.

But honestly, it is so pretty.

And you almost don't see the gold thread because it's so subtle.

But I would imagine that in the evening or when you've got the light on, it's just so pretty.

Thank

you.

That was kind of the point.

I wanted it to be super subtle because I'm not, you know...

It's not about bling for me, but just to have that kind of shimmer.