About this episode

Leslie Heaney interviews Nina Campbell about her extensive career in interior design and her favorite projects.

Nina Campbell has been one of my favorite people I have had the pleasure of sitting down with since I started Duologue — sixty years of designing the most beautiful rooms in the world and she is still the most curious, most passionate person in any room she walks into. In this conversation we talk about how she got her start working under the legendary John Fowler at Colefax and Fowler, the project in mainland China that required flying in thirty people, their own paint, and their own tea, the house in Maine that became her favorite project of her career and the subject of her book, and what it actually means to design a room for the life someone lives in it — not the life they imagine. We also get into Nina’s insider tips on paint, bedding, tabletop, and the best places to find antiques. Nina Campbell is the author of A House in Maine and the creator of fabric and wallpaper collections sold worldwide, as well as the new Nina Campbell for NEXT line. (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:04) Learning from John Fowler at Colefax and Fowler (00:04:23) London's Annabelle's (00:09:16) Opening a Shop with Mark Birley / Porto Linens (00:11:37) Cullen House in Scotland (00:16:06) Starting Her Fabric…

People in this episode

Host: Leslie Heaney

Guest: Nina Campbell

Topics covered

• interior design
• home decor
• design process
• antiques
• fabric and wallpaper
• personal stories

Keywords

• interior design
• Nina Campbell
• Colefax and Fowler
• Maine
• antiques
• fabric collections
• home decor

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Colefax and Fowler, NEXT

Books & works: A House in Maine

Places: China, Maine, Scotland, London

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