Nicky haslam

We asked society decorator Haslam, who at 74 is surely living proof that while fashions change, style doesn’t, to come up with a new list of vulgar things we should all avoid.

There is only one Nicky Haslam, the interior designer whose singular vision has influenced generations of others – and will no doubt continue to do so. House & Garden pays a visit to his new home in the Cotswolds, which illustrates how this legend is still at the height of his decorating powers

From the moment he left Eton, Nicky Haslam was the life of the party, a dazzling young charmer who enchanted the good and the great—Joan Crawford, the Rolling Stones, Cecil Beaton, Bill Blass, etc., etc.—ushering in Swinging 60s London, introducing Andy Warhol to New York society, and seducing Hollywood stars of both sexes. As Haslam publishes a memoir, at 68, and settles into his face-lift, our author hangs out with the interior designer and man-about-town to discover what lies beneath the…

Filled with watercolors of his most memorable projects, Nicky Haslam’s pastoral retreat brims with personality, wit, and charm.

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In the bright home office, the walls are painted in Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler's ‘Hambleden Yellow’. Floor-to-ceiling shelves are filled with books and other items.

The maestro of interior design offers us his cardinal rules for decorating

JAN MOIR: Nicky Haslam had a good summer, which is what one expects, darling. He was partying in the South of France in his white Primark jeans and dip-dyed goatee beard.

So who… is best friend with Min Hogg, legendary founder of WOI was getting down with Tallulah Bankhead age 15 (in between Eton College term times) was a stalwart companion of Diana Cooper née…

British society interior designer Nicky Haslam, appears in ITV's new five-part royal docuseries The Real Crown: Inside the House of Windsor, which airs on Thursday 20 April on ITVX.