Duck and Rice and London Bohemia: Fusion Decor

I bring you two things that I love about Elle Decoration this month. Usually, I can give this shelter magazine a miss because it has too much contemporary design for my taste. But whenever they add a bit of eclecticism then I dive right in. This month on their website they did a feature on Duck and Rice, a Soho restaurant, done up with  a mash-up vibe of a Victorian pub and a Chinese restaurant. I love it. The second piece I love is a spread in their magazine on Sera Hersham-Loftus' London home.

 

The building, above, is very Art Deco, no?

A kind of chinoiserie meets art deco industrial design. The Duck and Rice interior is the work of the Istanbul-based design firm Autoban. Explains the tiles on the wall.

So, organic beer to start, with some boiled salted peanuts, while I wait on my duck rolls. Where's the Victorian in that?  The Venison Puff and the pleated red lampshade, perhaps.

 

After all this serious design I did not expect the hip-hipsterness of their website. 

And now for Sera's space. I love plants in my home. Plants, like books and framed family photos, bring light and life to a room/home. But I do not have a green thumb. I have come to accept that I must go to the Midi Market every six months to replace my plants. I love Sera's indoor use of what would traditionally pass as outdoor plant pots.

 

That kitchen! It is an appropriate solution for a lot of  Brussels homes. Small, functional, neo-traditional and not Ikea! I painted the walls of the kitchen in my first Brussels apartment in chalkboard black. My landlord's mother had conniptions. I'll have to post some pictures of that kitchen one day.

 

I love the decanters on the table below. I am sure this was done by the stylist for the photo shoot. But how fabulous are you if you have your fruits kept on a silver tray and crystal decanters of wine, sherry or port at the ready. Without a drop of snark: how totally grown-up! I have my empty decanters hidden away in a  Chinese-style bar armoire in my library/den. But Sera's way is a perfectly stylish and yet unpretentious way of living with the elegant things one owns.

I went looking for more and found this bedroom done for Sadie Frost (the ex-wife of Jude Law).

 

Sera is a London-based interior decorator with a very quirky aesthetic: love of Bohemian, sensuous, glamorous and decadent spaces, with lots of plant life. I love it but would need it in small doses. Décor style: Seductive boudoir?

 

Images of Sera's apartment from October's issue of Elle Decoration Magazine
Images of Duck and Rice from  Elle Decoration and Design Boom