we say, in creativeness. I don’t know what
he was taking but thanks to all these light
domes and the double-size windows, there’s
always light everywhere.” The eight-bedroom
home is a crazy cornucopia of mezzanines,
cupolas, staircases and balconies. “It’s just
totally wacky. People say it’s like an inside-out
Escher wedding cake. It’s the ultimate Alice in
Wonderland fairytale house.”
Alice has festooned Cricket Court with
an eclectic mix of finds from Portobello
Market and, closer to home, Bridport Market.
Everywhere you look are oddities and curios:
walls covered in antique headpieces and flags,
vintage rugs and crystals. Yet while seemingly
a delightful mishmash, Alice’s vision is
specific. “I either really dislike something or
I like it,” she says. Union Jacks and disco balls
are firm favourites. “I’m obsessed with disco
balls. I hang them everywhere,” she says as we
discuss the afternoon she spent hand-tiling
a roll-top bath with pieces of broken mirror
to make the fabulous disco bath that stands
on a Union Jack rug in her en-suite. Mugs,
however, she is very particular about: “I hate
them. If I find any in the office that have the
wrong sort of flowers on them, or cats,” she
says, grimacing, “I have to chuck them away.
The girls in the bridal store could never work
out why I would like this floral set of cups
and hate that one, but I think either things are
right or they’re wrong. I like being consistent
over absolutely everything. There’s no grey
middle ground aesthetically.”
Alice shot the most recent Temperley
campaign herself at Cricket Court. “What I
like to do is get people down to the house—
no team, no make-up, no nobody—and
it’s relaxed. Just me with a camera and the
muse,” she says. In addition to making a“I think either things are
right or they’re wrong. I
like being consistent over
absolutely everything.
There’s no grey middle
ground aesthetically”
(^201)