Nicholas Haslam
Nicholas Haslam
Nicholas Ponsonby 'Nicky' Haslamis an English interior designer and socialite, and founder of the London-based interior design firm, NH Design Inc...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth27 September 1939
great
I'd like not to have these great puffy lobes on my ears - I'd like them to taper in.
I've always wanted to look different. I always think I've got this terrible figure. I'd like to be 3 inches taller.
grand intimate
Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting.
bores brought chairman fade life room
I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.
badly difficult easy terribly
It's terribly easy to be well dressed. It's much more difficult to be badly dressed.
I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.
I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm.
I don't really do a big Saturday supper. I prefer entertaining in the daytime.
I don't feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it's a different thing.
jagger less man
I could care less if it's Mick Jagger or the man on the street. I just like interesting people, and I happen to know a lot of stars.
believe listen room tells
I believe every room speaks, tells you what to do to it. You have to listen to that.
bathroom children educate knowledge pass perhaps share somebody wants
Sometimes I think it would be nice to share everything I've got with somebody - and sometimes I think I'm very lucky to have the bathroom to myself. But I feel it would be nice to pass on my knowledge. Perhaps because I haven't got children - one wants to educate somebody.
call current home people simply
People think that buying something for their home which is up-to-date is chic, but often it's a cliche. I call people who simply give clients the current 'thing' stylists not decorators.
awful knowledge thirsty
I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.