Celebrity interior designer Kelly Hoppen offers tips for the masses
Interior designer for the rich and famous, Kelly Hoppen, hopes to inspire the masses by sharing her trade secrets in a new book, writes Peta Tomlinson
Those aspiring to own a beautiful, Zen-like home may well fawn over the design genius of Britain's "queen of calm", Kelly Hoppen. However, it is unlikely that most people will be able to afford her.
It's reported that the celebrity designer, who counts the likes of Victoria and David Beckham as friends and clients, has not taken a job for less than £300,000 (HK$3.9 million).
Yet for the price of her latest book - - Hoppen spells out step by step and room by room how to get the most out of your space. Follow her style tips, add your own personality and your home will flow, say daughter Natasha Corrett and step-daughters Sienna and Savannah Miller, in a heartfelt foreword.
Now in her 50s the designer, who started Kelly Hoppen Interiors at 16, has never been busier. Apart from her many private and commercial projects globally, Hoppen is an ambassador for The Prince's Trust, a television personality and this year began an online business, kellyhoppen. com.
She is also a prolific writer. is her eighth book on the subject and it's a work Hoppen sees as her design legacy ("my way of putting down on paper everything that I carry in my head").
