Inside this Designer’s Eclectic London Home Filled With Sentimental Objects | Vogue

I got this message on my answer phone saying Jane Birkin wants one of your gansborg is God jumpers and I thought oh God you know this is so exciting and then Kate Moss bought one and got photographed and it became a thing hi Vogue I'm Bella Freud welcome to my home today I'm going to show you some of my objects of affection [Music] in the 90s with the Maisonette at the front of the building was a home of everyone who's ever been creative practically Kate Mawson Mario Sorrento lived here Glenn lutford but this bit at the back was a bit of a dump and then when it became available I bought it and with Maria speak the architect from retruvius we pulled the whole thing down and built this kind of sanctuary so this is my kitchen one of the things I want to show you are these pinch pot cups which were made for me by one of my closest friends called Kim Sion my routine every morning is I come into my kitchen and I make strongest coffee that I can make and then I pour it into one of these red mugs which is also the same color red as my 1970 jumper and I love this tomato soup color and I sit down and have a bit of toast and marmalade I usually put my feet on the table my next object is this photograph of me and my father it's taken by Bruce Bernard so my father was an artist his name is Lucian Freud he died about 11 years ago he worked all the time so my way of getting to know him was to sit for him he was incredibly good company and very very interesting and sort of irreverent he wasn't very parental in the traditional sense but he was very protective in an animalistic way I had this idea of asking if Bruce could come and take some pictures of us and who really didn't think he'd say yes but he did say yes and so Bruce came over and we just started sort of having a really good time and then he suddenly stood on his head my expression is like Dad you know so this is my TV room and Library it doesn't have any direct light at all in here and I also had found a Swatch of this almost fluorescent orange carpet like very Francis Bacon orange and I thought oh that will be good in here because the sort of shadowiness mutes the orangeness of the carpet and it's like lava underground well I'm shame to say I've never finished a Sigmund Freud book I feel like that's something I've got to look forward to I'm really interested in everything about him really my father said he was very funny so that seems a great quality a great characteristic so in here is my amazing bathroom it's so luxurious I never imagined I'd have such an incredible place to sort of wander into every morning so my object is this Golden Hand and it's part of my friend Susie caves jewelry collection and it's Nick Cave's hand I'm very close to Susie she was very instrumental in an important person to me when I started my own label I hate that word muse but she was a real inspiration to me I've made quite a few films over the years and I've always asked Susie to be in them for the one that she was able to be in was the second short film I made with John Malkovich called lady behave I wanted to find somebody who I could collaborate with somebody suggested talking to John I told him all about my ideas and he said listen I can't do it I'm right in the middle of making this film with Spike Jones and he was making Being John Malkovich and then he said maybe Spike Jones should do it you know blah blah and I said I just want you to do it he suddenly said okay I'm gonna do it the storyline was there was a girl who was so piggish had such terrible habits that her boyfriend said he'd leave if she didn't go to the lady behave School of etiquette Susie was Heavenly head girl [Music] so this is my bedroom this object is one of my first word sweaters as I call them I was making this short film with John called hideous man hideous man is a poet and his book club fans are waiting for him to arrive to do a reading and I wanted the kind of queen of the literary fan club to be wearing a kind of merch type of thing my friend who's a stylist Kathy castorine said do you remember the photographs of that t-shirt people used to wear with Clapton is guard on and then I realized it was Ginsburg is God my assistant at the time said but what about God artist dog so I thought yeah goddard's dog is great because it doesn't mean anything and there's a lot of beatnik poetry where you just think is this rubbish or is this brilliant Kate Moss bought one from the one shop we sold it in and got photographed and it became a thing after Ginsburg is God I got this message on my answer phone saying Jane Birkin wants one of your gansborg's God jumpers and I thought oh God you know this is so exciting but I can't just do everyone is God so I made a jumper and it said jatam Jane and then on the back it said gasborg is God then Alexa Chung wore that jumper and it went mad I had like orders for thousands and I only had about a hundred [Music] so this is pale blue suit one of my many pale blue suits that I've made I was always struck by Peter Rabbit's pale blue jacket and how cool it was and like it's not the easiest color to wear but if you can pull it off and walk into a room in that gentle appealing vibe that it gives up is such a success recently I made one for tilde Swinton and it was just Sensational it was just the most disarming thing so this is my sitting room and one of my objects of affection is this painting by a young artist called Charlie Gosling he's a brilliant painter he's 22 and that was from his first exhibition his first solo show it's fantastic to be able to support someone when they're at that point in their career I liked the shirt and tie as you can see it's one of my themes I love uniforms I love the way that when you kind of mess with them a tiny bit they're so anarchic I always long to wear a school uniform but my Progressive School abolished theirs which was so annoying I was dying to wear a tie anyway I do now so this is an old hospital trolley that was in my dad's hallway full of old tubes of paint my sister who was the executor she got some of his paint brushes and gave each of his children some of them and I love the smell of paint and linseed and Terps just feels like we're about to start working when I started my own brand I asked him to write my name because he had this great handwriting and then he did a little drawing with a picture of the Whippet Pluto had been my dog that I gave to him foreign for spending the day with me and looking at all my stuff [Music]

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Length: 8min 54sec (534 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 01 2023