The World of Interiors

With a staircase inspired by a villa on Capri and an impluvium referencing the

ancients Rome-based practice Lazzarini Pickering’s design for Bluff House in

the Chilterns brings the Continent to the English countryside. But with Japanese

screens Irma Stern paintings and a Jain deity hidden in a hedge it’s not just

Europe that gets a look-in as Lee Marshall learns. Photography: Annabel Elston

The back part of the T-shaped entrance pavilion stretching out from behind

a topiary arch houses a 19th-century Murano-glass chandelier. In the fore-

ground an outside seat conceals ventilation ducts from the kitchen below

while the chimney on the right is that of the fireplace in the master bedroom

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