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Unpeeled tomatoes and barn conversions: Nicky Haslam reveals what’s ‘common’ this year
Instagram release of tea towel featuring what the UK designer ‘finds common’ has become an annual ritual
Some might say it’s a controversial term, but for Nicky Haslam, the 85-year-old English designer, socialite and self-appointed arbiter of taste, defining what is common is not something to shy away from – on the contrary, it has become an annual ritual. Haslam and his assistant still pack them up in his living room, a large space that is a testament to his preference for Eurocentric grandeur, all porcelain sculptures, linen curtains and plastic fig branches. Like much of his career, from “cleaning waste paper baskets” in his early 20s at US Vogue to interior design for rock stars, the tea towel idea came on a whim.
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