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From The Times
April 4, 2008

The best of bespoke interior design

Some ideas for those happy to splash the cash on one-off pieces

Kasia Maciejowska
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The lighting specialist Cameron Peters works with individual artists and international manufacturers to create one-off lighting sculptures. Styles can be classical or contemporary, in a range of materials. Prices start at £3,000 01235 835000

Lisa Whatmough, founder of Squint, re-upholsters antique furniture in striking vintage fabrics and creates pieces from scratch. Commissions for chairs like this one start at £2,600 and sofas at £3,800 020-7739 9275

The Turkish carpet specialist Stepevi has a retro-fabulous shop on the Kings Road, where you can spend hours perusing colours and choosing silky alpaca yarns to make your perfect rug. Prices start at £215 a square metre 020-7376 7574

Since the textile designer Pippa Caley graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2004 she has made a big name for herself. She adds splashes of colour to a room with cushions, blinds, bedspreads and wall art. Cushions start at £65 and bedspreads at £650 07801 228004

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Few things are black and white in Karim Rashid’s world. The Egyptian-born, half-English, Canadian-raised, New York-based product and interior designer likes his colours to look artificial and amped up - particularly pink, which he wears virtually every day, and which features in much of his work. "My colour palette has been like this for 30 years," he says. "I wore pink suits as a teenager. It’s the only controversial colour. Today I’m even more radical, because people are more conservative. Pink makes people feel positive and uplifted." Rashid changes the wallpaper every three months: the current one is his own design. Interiors-europe.co.uk stocks a range of his designs (from £36 a roll)

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