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By LUCY HALFHEAD
Photographs by JOSH SHINNERThe artist Annie Morris’
colourful Islington home is
a testament to her creativity
get a strange feeling of familiar-
ity when I arrive at Annie Morris’
Georgian townhouse in north Lon-
don, and she welcomes me into a
living-room filled with countless paintings,
sculptures and illustrations. Since 2010, the
house has belonged to Annie and her
husband Idris Khan, two of Britain’s most
successful contemporary artists, and their
young children, Maude and Jago. ‘We actu-
ally renovated it using the interiors of
Charleston as inspiration,’ she says. ‘I visited
the property when I was a little girl and was
mesmerised by the drawings all over
its walls, fireplaces and window sills.’
The Bloomsbury Group would
certainly approve of the scene. In one
corner is a pair of bespoke Ikea sofas,
whose cushions have been embroi-
dered with her whimsical sketches.
‘I’ve made lots of additional covers
that can be mixed and matched – I’m
constantly changing it,’ she says.
There’s a Raqib Shaw painting above
the mantelpiece, a huge photographic
work by Khan in the hallway, and one
of Morris’ Stack sculptures, plasterAbove: Annie
Morris in her studio,
wearing patent skirt,
£4,450; patent boots,
£1,190, both Fendi.
T-shirt and all jewellery
throughout, her own.
Right: the living-roomI
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