Take a Peak Inside the Latest Iteration of Kit Kemp's Hyde Park Home - Architectural Digest

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Given the choice, most decorators with a personal design itch would scratch it by moving from one house to another, exchanging one expertly completed realm for a new challenge, ad infinitum. That would not be Kit Kemp, the effervescent British interior designer who is also the creative director and cofounder, with her husband, Tim, of the eccentrically chic Firmdale Hotels, an international hospitality empire composed of 10 smart hostelries and eight fizzy bars and restaurants, stretching from London to New York City. “I’ve lived in other places before, but I’m going to stick with this one,” she explains. “I’m no quitter.”

Kemp (right) and her daughters Minnie (center) and Willow lounge on the drawing room sofa, which wears a linen by Raoul Textiles. 

Simon Upton 

In the entry, flat-weave rugs were fashioned into a stair runner, antique mirror. 

Simon Upton 

The address to which Kemp has pledged her devotion for 20 years and raised three daughters is a three-story, gray brick, vaguely medieval house on a cul-de-sac near Hyde Park, around the corner from Royal Albert Hall and a couple of blocks off heavily trafficked Kensington Road. Still, she says, “it’s almost quieter here than in the countryside.” Since the couple bought the 1930s property, the L-shaped residence has undergone a series of transformative adjustments, all the better to express, at any particular moment, what the designer describes as “the way we live now.” Dormers have been added, and windows have been enlarged. Early on, the garage at the rear of the property was remodeled into an apartment for a nanny; today it serves as a gym. “I’m always having a little experiment with this or that,” says Kemp, who has called her style colorful and carefree. “My poor husband has to put up with it.”

A Mark Gertler painting hangs over the drawing room's neoclassical mantel. Cocktail tables by Tom Stogdon for Kit Kemp; African side table; antique rug. 

Simon Upton 

A decade ago, the empty nesters’ kitchen, located at the front of the house, was relocated to the rear of the building, taking over what had been an elegant oblong drawing room. “[AD100 decorator] Robert Kime told me that he always advises clients to put the kitchen in the best room of the house,” Kemp notes of the space, where custom-made cabinets follow the curved walls. “Everybody ends up in the kitchen anyway.” Off the kitchen, she and Tim built a conservatory–cum–dining space, a glass-walled volume that connects to a welcoming stone terrace. Elsewhere, the dramatically beamed attic became a yoga studio—it’s since become the master bedroom— as well as home to the couple’s gleaming grand piano, a beloved fixture, even though Kemp admits, “We both play extremely badly.”

In the dining room, an armchair and the pelmets are made of the same Raoul Textiles linen. A Tord Boontje chandelier hangs about the oak dining table with chairs by Kit Kemp; antique Turkish rug. 

Simon Upton 

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