{"id":125567,"date":"2022-03-20T17:30:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T10:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/coup-de-theatre-dramatic-looks-in-a-lavish-london-flat\/"},"modified":"2022-03-20T17:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T10:38:19","slug":"coup-de-theatre-dramatic-looks-in-a-lavish-london-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/coup-de-theatre-dramatic-looks-in-a-lavish-london-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Coup de th\u00e9\u00e2tre: dramatic looks in a lavish London flat"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA former set designer has given her Little Venice home a Victorian boudoir meets rock \u2019n\u2019 roll vibeAs a teenager, Sera Hersham-Loftus expressed herself in two distinct ways. The first was in her clothes: Victorian camisoles mixed with spooky eyeliner for a Siouxsie Sioux meets Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles effect (this was the 1980s). Decorating was the other. \u201cI was always painting my bedroom walls and moving the furniture around. I\u2019d borrow my mother\u2019s scarves and drape them over lampshades for a romantic effect.\u201d All this was an escape from \u201cthe strict, depressing formality\u201d of her all-girls\u2019 school.School was not for her \u2013 \u201cI was the class joker; always answering back\u201d \u2013 so she left at 15, relieved to be able to \u201cearn my own money and feel independent\u201d. Determination, combined with chutzpah, landed her a job at Sadler\u2019s Wells in the set-design department. Despite no formal training, she discovered she had a knack for bringing spaces to life with paint, fabric and resourcefulness. When friends began to ask her to do up their houses \u201cit was as if I was predestined to become an interior designer,\u201d she says. Continue reading…
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