Christmas Inspiration: green & blue

Favorite Designer: Helen Green

Sophisticated and elegant Helen Green, of Helen Green Design, is one of Britain’s leading interior designers for luxury hotels and private clients. She has a wonderful streamlined, sophisticated style. Her interiors are subtle, timeless, elegant, yet comfortable. As her maxim interior decoration says: "always follow your own instinct".

Style:

Green describes her style as "cool contemporary, modern, precise, harmonious and elegant. A look that is lean, clean and classic yet seductive and inviting". She always trys to keep the architectural details the focus of the room. Furniture, that she uses are a mix of classic contemporary.

Colors:

Her palette is subdued, with soft neutrals like grays and soothing beiges. Green rather doesn't use much of lively colors, while as she says "in a sophisticated house where you’ve got a sophisticated palette of grays, for example, splashes of color like a red cushion doesn’t work for me." Instead she prefers textures like rich, understated fabrics reflecting in polished surfaces, recalling the sleek glamour of the thirties.