Widely acclaimed for his opulent and richly layered interiors, Alidad continually delights clients; creating rooms that appear to have developed over generations. With over thirty years experience, he has been featured numerous times in Architectural Digest’s AD100, Elle Decor’s A-List, and House & Garden’s Top 100 Interior Designers. This month for Guinevere’s Guests, Alidad lends […]
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Plaster Busts Galore
The day that I walked in to Guinevere to find Dean’s dark and mysterious room of plaster breasts, legs, bums and tums, I was instantly mesmerised. The limbs are spread throughout the room, clutching banisters and breasts, kicking balls (metaphorically) and tiptoeing down stairs, they filled my face with a smile from ear to ear. […]
Dean’s Renaissance Inspiration
I saw an old lady standing at a bus stop the other day. She was wearing a shabby purple coat, the sort that old ladies wear, with a bright pea green sweater and deep pink trousers. I doubt she had very much money or that life had been very kind to her. She looked fabulous. […]
Design Week 2017
London Design Week is always something to look forward to with the new collections being launched heralding the start of Spring and longer days (finally). It's easy to forget how lucky we are in London to have such a fantastic design district with Chelsea Harbour and Chelsea Design Quarter, a London home so many International […]
Dhurrie Exhibition at Guinevere for the London Design Festival
For this years London Design Festival, we are holding a Dhurrie Exhibition at Guinevere. The exhibition, which is currently open at our showroom on the Kings Road, celebrates the variety of patterns and colours of dhurries, and is accompanied by text, which explores the history, manufacturing techniques and symbolism behind the different dhurrie designs. In […]
Chelsea Design Quarter Summer Party
Parties have a strange effect on people; the pre party nerves can be a killer. For the Chelsea Design Quarter Summer Street party we had pre ordered the champagne and popped the first cork bang on the dot of 6. Marc stood patiently waiting for the first throng of eager visitors, the street was starting […]
Christies Late – ‘Incredible Inventions and Curious Collections’
Last week, Anna and I went to Christie’s to see ‘Incredible Inventions and Curious Collections’. On the first Tuesday of every month, Christies has a late night opening with art and wine, who could resist?! This was ashamedly my first time visiting Christies, and so when Anna suggested it, I had no option but to […]
Visit to PAD and Frieze
I got to PAD at 12.15 in Berkeley Square, conscious of course that I wanted to squeeze lunch in-between the two fairs. I met my friend Geoff at the door and we decided that the best way to navigate this fair efficiently was to walk around the outside then do the alleys longways. The first […]
Props Galore at Farley Hire
Very late in the day but the after effects of the delicious brunch, as provided by the ever excellent Everyday Fabulous food, has just worn off, that and the bellini's. About two weeks ago, Natasha, Dean and myself went on a magical mystical tour of Farley Hire. If we thought our showroom was big, we […]
Olympia Winter Fair Preview – 2nd November 2015
As an Olympia virgin I was not entirely sure what to expect. In my mind I saw it as a large, lavish and beautifully presented space, with the best pieces the dealers have to offer. In most respects I was completely right, but it was smaller than I expected. Champagne on arrival was accepted willingly, […]