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How to get the Soho House look — by the woman who invented it
H ow to describe the Vicky Charles vibe. A cocktail of old and new, with a splash of British craft and a twist of what the self-effacing designer, 49, describes as 'nonsense'. Her name will be for ever linked to the interiors of the Soho House private members' clubs, where she worked her way up from waitressing, in the late Nineties, to global head of design. For hints at Charles's handwriting, see Soho Farmhouse in the Cotswolds, the Ned in London, Ludlow House in New York, Little Beach House in Malibu and Soho House Chicago.
Many of her more recent projects are under NDAs. Since 2016, when she left to found Charles & Co, with Julia Corden, wife of the British comedian James Corden, she has been attracting celebrity clients, including George and Amal Clooney (for whom she has created two nurseries in a trio of homes), Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, and David and Victoria Beckham, whose Oxfordshire home she worked on. According to several reports, it was Charles & Co that delivered Meghan and Harry's update of Frogmore Cottage. She won't be drawn on the rumours but confirms she will not be working for the world's most famous non-royals on their Montecito pad.
