Beaverbrook Hotel is a late-nineteenth-century mansion set in the Surrey Hills, the quintessential British Country Estate. Decorator Susie Atkinson was tasked with designing something essentially British and romantic, “current but not trendy, comfortable and completely individual” (House & Garden). It is something she achieved brilliantly with tufted velvet and (Bowood) florals, dusky pink walls, cane chairs and Louise Bourgeois gallery walls …

All photos by Simon Brown for House & Garden; unless otherwise listed

“I knew it had to be gentle, floral and quirky with a touch of madness …” –Susie Atkinson, House & Garden

JOSHUA MONAGHAN