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Meet our Creative Director, Helen Parker.<\/em><\/p>\n
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What books inspire you in your creativity and designs?<\/strong><\/p>\n
I have so many books, but to be honest my inspirations come from actual places I visit, different countries, markets, restaurants, homes.<\/p>\n
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- <\/ul><\/div> Tetsis Home, Hydra. This was the home of Hydra’s most beloved artist, Panagiotis Tetsis, and is now a museum to showcase his studio and work.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
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Where do you go clothes shopping?<\/strong><\/p>\n
I keep all my clothes, some from thirty years ago, so I have rather too many, but I still wear most of them. I like to buy things when I\u2019m on holiday or vintage, something different always appeals to me. I also love D\u00d4EN, Toast, the sadly closed Cabbages and Roses and Levi jeans.<\/p>\n
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- <\/ul><\/div> Helen has the best wardrobe!!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
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What do you like most about your job?<\/strong><\/p>\n
The freedom to design and create spaces in all our showrooms across the world and fill them with old and new things that inspire me and other people. I also love being able to choose vintage and antique pieces to give our showrooms their own personalities.<\/p>\n
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- <\/ul><\/div> Helen and Paul at Newark Antiques Fair, their favourite place to source beautiful and unusual pieces with history.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
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What is your very favourite thing in your house?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Gosh, I don\u2019t know, I have a lot of old things from my father who loved books, antiques, pottery and maps. So probably all the things that remind me of him.<\/p>\n
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- <\/ul><\/div> Helen and her father in Ibiza, taken in 1967.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
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What\u2019s your favourite deVOL item?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Most definitely our Classic furniture, Paul designed this range of freestanding cupboards over thirty years ago. Without our Classic cupboards deVOL would not be what it is today and neither would I.<\/p>\n
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- <\/ul><\/div> We all love Helen’s kitchen with its Classic English sink cabinet, mix of vintage freestanding pieces and the squishiest sofa. <\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
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Best concert you have seen?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Arctic Monkeys at Hillsborough Park, Sheffield 2023<\/p>\n
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Favourite Instagram follows?<\/strong><\/p>\n
There are so many amazing accounts I follow, but I get most excited when I see posts pop up from my family and people I know. Nothing fancy or styled just simple pictures of people having fun or on holiday.<\/p>\n
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Favourite colour?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Easy peasy, pink!!!!<\/p>\n
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- <\/ul><\/div> The prettiest pink tulips in Helen’s kitchen. The walls are ‘Setting Plaster’ by Farrow & Ball, an all-time favourite of Helen’s!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
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What is your favourite decade for design of interiors or fashion?<\/strong><\/p>\n
For fashion definitely the 70\u2019s, I love little t-shirts and bell bottom jeans and hippy dresses. Lots of jewellery and floaty stuff!!!<\/p>\n
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- <\/ul><\/div> The perfect dress for holiday evenings!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
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Where\u2019s your favourite holiday destination?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Well, it was always anywhere in the Mediterranean, especially Greece, but since going to Thailand last year it’s got to be Thailand, but only just!!!<\/p>\n
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- <\/ul><\/div> The bluest water in Thailand.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
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Where is your favourite place to draw inspiration from?<\/strong><\/p>\n
It\u2019s been said too many times before but it\u2019s always the same answer, Princelet Street, Wilkes Street and Fournier Street, East London.<\/p>\n
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- <\/ul><\/div> East London streets will always be so inspiring. <\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
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Where do you save vs splurge?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Save on secondhand jeans, basic authentic holiday accommodation, local restaurants, old crockery and glassware.<\/p>\n
Splurge on good produce, good shoes, good shampoo, white t-shirts, presents, anything Astier de Villette.<\/p>\n
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- <\/ul><\/div> East London streets will always be so inspiring. <\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
- <\/ul><\/div> The bluest water in Thailand.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
- <\/ul><\/div> The perfect dress for holiday evenings!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
- <\/ul><\/div> The prettiest pink tulips in Helen’s kitchen. The walls are ‘Setting Plaster’ by Farrow & Ball, an all-time favourite of Helen’s!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
- <\/ul><\/div> We all love Helen’s kitchen with its Classic English sink cabinet, mix of vintage freestanding pieces and the squishiest sofa. <\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
- <\/ul><\/div> Helen and her father in Ibiza, taken in 1967.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
- <\/ul><\/div> Helen and Paul at Newark Antiques Fair, their favourite place to source beautiful and unusual pieces with history.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
- <\/ul><\/div> Helen has the best wardrobe!!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
- <\/ul><\/div> Tetsis Home, Hydra. This was the home of Hydra’s most beloved artist, Panagiotis Tetsis, and is now a museum to showcase his studio and work.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
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