Garden Interiors: At Home With Rose Uniacke
Garden Designer: Tom Stuart-Smith Project Credit: Rose Uniacke Photo Credit: Matthew Williams
Famous for her glamorously minimalist interiors, London designer Rose Uniacke rescued an unloved indoor gallery at her 19th-century mansion, creating a light-filled conservatory for orchids to evoke an era when Victorian plant hunters roamed the globe in search of the exotic.
Of-the-moment garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith helped Uniacke create the greenhouse garden, featured in our Gardenista Book.
Uniacke chooses the Orchids herself: She prefers white flowers, as seen here.
A massive fiddle leaf fig tree steals the show in a corner.
Uniacke cleverly disguised this connecting door using trompe l'oeil techniques.
If you look carefully, you can see the door's subtle knob.
The garden conservatory is a well-loved family gathering spot.
This vintage planter is a favorite of Uniacke's.
This Venetian hanging lantern dates to the 19th century.
Dubbed the Winter Garden by Uniacke, the conservatory has furnishings that came, mostly, from Uniacke’s shop.
Oak-leaf ivy (Cissus rhombolia) is a vine that prefers low light