“I live in Cambridge with my husband in a tiny Victorian terraced cottage. We have moved six times in twelve years, living in an art deco mansion block, a Scottish tenement with sky high ceilings and an apartment carved out of an Victorian villa'
Carlow-born accessory designer and illustrator Rory Hutton’s Victorian home in Cambridge is also his studio“I live in Cambridge with my husband in a tiny Victorian terraced cottage. We have moved six times in twelve years, living in an art deco mansion block, a Scottish tenement with sky high ceilings and an apartment carved out of an Victorian villa; we have tried everything!
Our current house is very modest, built in the 1870s for workers on the nearby railway. Sadly, it has lost some of its original features and has some very ugly tiled fireplaces. However, it is in the city centre and it’s a great pleasure to be able to walk everywhere – this city is so picturesque, it’s like living in a postcard. We haven’t done much to the space, just filled it with our collections and our furniture, which is either antique or secondhand.
Home is also my studio and I work from our living room. My business has developed slowly and steadily over the past ten years. Collaboration is at the heart of my work; I especially love working with museums and heritage institutions. Reinterpreting historical themes for modern audiences is a great privilege. My favourite commissions are the ones that commemorate anniversaries and celebrate the lives of great people.
My Garden Collection, my most popular range, began as three silk scarves celebrating 20th-century gardeners Bunny Mellon, Vita Sackville-West and Lady Rhoda Birley. Through learning about these women and their stories I gardened vicariously. I love the interiors created and lived in by women such as Jackie Kennedy, Nancy Lancaster, Lady Diana Cooper and Sybil Connolly. Their homes referenced the grand French and English styles, yet were very personal and comfortable.
Rory Hutton studied fashion design at Limerick School of Art and Design and design history at The National College of Art and Design, Dublin.The dressing room is used to store accessories and surplus pictures, books and antique miniatures.Artworks by Rosie West and Emily Maude hang above a Staffordshire zebra, found at Portobello Market.The Laura Ashley sofa is from eBay, the round table, another charity shop find.
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