CELC #ilovelinen
New York Times T Magazine
““Wherever you look, traditional is engaged in conversation with modern, old furniture and art with new, and bold colors with white walls.””
Adham Faramawy
Film4 / MGM
““Harriet Anstruther knows how to rhyme with a room, in a way. She listens to spaces and objects and people, coaxing from them the stories they most want to tell — personal stories, timeless stories, clever or irreverent or wicked stories. Their singular, resonant truths, the things they were most meant to say. The results, inevitably wrought from feeling and memory and affection, are their very best version of themselves. Harriet is an artist and a poet and a magician and a dreamer and a rascal — and she is extraordinary.””
Smallwood Architects
Richard Gasper
Arden & Anstruther Gallery
Ridge Architects
De Le Cuona / GGHQ
Clearview Books
““In the skilled hands of Harriet Anstruther, a pattern is brought to the chaos, an hospitable order to the contradictions…to create a series of unexpected spaces for serious entertaining, stimulating working or superior everyday living.””
Top 100 International Designers 2020
Pia Tryde
““I have always thought Harriet is one of the coolest people I have ever met. Her outlook on Interior Design and the way she goes about projects is always so fresh and inspiring.””
London Craft Week
““Harriet is a true poet who understands the past, the present and the future. She has a rare curatorial eye and the ability to bring together objects from different eras and narratives with vision and sensitivity, bringing spaces alive. She has an understanding of fashion, art, product and architecture and I love her extraordinary eye for detail.””
Clover Godsal
Beijing Design Festival/RCA
““As well as having a fantastic eye and a generous spirit, Harriet is surrounded by a wonderful network of like-minded architects, artists, creators and makers.””
Rodic Davidson Architects
London Design Festival/Spacewarp
Thames & Hudson
Rancho Sea Air, LA
Jim Lambie
““Her ease and generosity magics all things bountiful everywhere one looks, tastes and touches. Her gift of giving, makes it all too easy to take - shamelessly. “”
““Harriet’s interior design practise spins idyllic narratives with an uncomplicated beauty and a reverence for both the past and the present. Founded in artisanship and a pure joy in materials, Harriet’s wicked sense of humour can place the vernacular alongside the wildly sophisticated to produce work that is unstuffy, inspired and mirrors the clients inner world.””
BBC2 / Independent Image
Covent Garden Hotel / Firmdale
““She knows the importance of the quality of small things; a handle on a door, a switch on a wall. The parts of an interior that we touch every day are the parts we see every day and remind us if we love or hate where we are, if it works or grates. It shows attention to detail, a love of what she does and a wish for the client to continue to love their home long after she has torn up the snagging list and gone home.””
““Harriet’s projects stitch together restoration and classic modern design; the 20’s hang out with the Edwardians, everyone is invited, just as long as you are well turned out. Her confidence and her playful nature with design allows rooms to be fun without the ridiculous, smart without dullness and most importantly a place you would want to be.””
““Harriet Anstruther has a wonderfully bold eye, and very good taste. An excellent combination.””
Rebecca Ackroyd
““My favourite Harriet world is the Sussex farmhouse. Entering here is crossing the divide into magical thinking. A rich narrative skilfully constructed around the old timber bones. A place to dream with its own beguiling logic.””
““... a matchmaker of the functional and the fanciful…””
Cobblers Cove Hotel
Moreno Masey Architects