At her London town house, Lara Bohinc brings her stellar eye down to earth.
“It’s a house that keeps shifting and changing,” says Lara Bohinc of the ever-evolving interior of her five-storey early Victorian town house, which sits on a broad and sloping tree-lined street in a residential enclave of north London. Despite its inconspicuous exterior, if you look closely, there are discreet clues to the decorative experimentation operating behind the stock-brick and stucco façade.
Lara Bohinc stands on the upper ground floor of her north London home, alongside her South Pole wall hanging – part of her From the Sun to the Moon collection created with Kasthall – and the Kipferl desk in Rosa Portugal marble from 2021.The name alludes both to the Slovenian designer’s deep fascination with all things interplanetary and to the fact that under her care the house has become a dynamic backdrop for her celestial-inspired furniture creations.
In the master bedroom, the rust-hued East of the Moon rug created for Kasthall brings warmth, off-setting the Planetaria light on the bedside table.When they bought the house, in 2019, it had barely been touched in 40 years, and there was much remodelling to be done. “The walls were literally sagging,” says Bohinc, who stripped back the interior, redoing the plumbing and electrics, before working with specialists to meticulously reinstate the original 19th-century details.
“It’s deliberately light and frothy,” says Bohinc of the furnishing, which was conjured during lockdown when she was craving connection with her Slovenian family and community of international friends. “I wanted to create objects that would make you feel loved and cocooned.” This emotive sensibility reaches its zenith in the Kissing Armchairs scattered lavishly throughout the second-floor sitting room and library, a palatial space with a lattice-work ceiling and zigzag parquet floor.
Bohinc’s custom-marble shower is forged from offcuts hand-selected at the Italian quarry Marmi Serafini. The bath is from Bette, the sink is Ideal Standard and the black taps are from Kronenbach.“The design world hasn’t changed so much,” she says. “Unlike fashion, where there are lots of equal opportunities for women, design is still very male dominated.” Bohinc should know.
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