“By the time I arrived on the scene, the home had been fully renovated and reconfigured, and while it had been finished to a very high standard, it was somehow stillborn,” Charles Mellersh tells us of his latest townhouse rescue in Notting Hill. An architect/interior designer (and member of the founding editorial team at Wallpaper) who typically oversees projects from conception to completion, Mellersh treated this one as a relay: The overhaul (which involved opening up the main floor of the three-story brick Victorian and moving the stair) is the work of London architects Michaelis Boyd. 
Owners Sukeena Rao, a well-known fashion stylist, and her financier husband had been living in their new quarters while it was just a beautiful shell. Rao had big ideas, but with the arrival of their son (now nearly four), she needed help filling in the pieces: “This was not easy, but when I met Charles, the stars aligned.” Photography by Chris Tubbs, courtesy of Charles Mellersh.

Above: “As soon as you walk into the house, you are struck by the beautiful scent of the Dinesen Douglas fir flooring,” says Mellersh. (Read about the Danish company in our post World’s Most Beautiful Wood Floors.)
The brass-edged mirror is 1950s Italian and one of many pieces from The Apartment in Copenhagen. The Umbrella Stand is a Josef Frank classic from Stockholm’s Svenskt Tenn, Rao’s other favorite source introduced to her by Charles.

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