Required Reading: Living Life Beautifully - Remodelista
Christina Strutt, co-founder of the English housewares and fashion line Cabbages and Roses, is an advocate for beauty, simplicity, timelessness, integrity, and sustainability. Her just-published book Living Life Beautifully presents a collection of friends’ houses that are all about creating harmonious spaces where life and work mingle. Photography by Simon Brown, unless otherwise noted. Hooks on a wall and open shelves mean a corner of any room can be turned into a linen cupboard or closet. At Brook Cottage, Strutt’s country home near Bath, a treehouse that was built for her children 20 years ago, became a place of work for her (and received a coat of white paint). It’s currently used as a place of repose and a small shelf with hooks holds the necessities for the occasional cup of tea. In the her Wiltshire cottage, Maureen Doherty–founder of Egg in Knightsbridge... ...one of our favorite places to browse and shop in London–hangs her laundry to dry in her favorite room, the one where her grandsons stay when they come to visit. Strutt turns the concept of a linen closet into a vehicle for display in her Cabbages and Roses shop in Chelsea. Hooks transform stairs into a place for easy and accessible storage. Strutt’s design assistant, Violet Buchanan, moved vintage shelves from the Cabbages and Roses shop into her own home, giving them a new function as a shoe rack. The book is available in the UK through Amazon; £25. Photograph by Christine Chang Hanway.