Cut from the same cloth
Chelsea Textiles founder Mona Perlhagen and her daughter, Jenny, have transformed an eighteenth-century country house into the company design centre and an elegant family home.
Photographs by Simon Upton

Page 74: (Clockwise from above left) Mona and Jenny outside their second shop in Walton Street, SW3, with Jenny's dachshunds; historic motifs are expertly reproduced for Chelsea Textiles' hand-embroidered designs; Mona and members of the team in the basement design studio in the Oxfordshire house; elegant antiques add atmosphere to the original Walton Street interior.

Page 78: (Bottom left) "Fleur de Lis" fabric by Chelsea Textiles has been used for the beds in a guest room. Embroidered by hand. Also, in the same room, bedside tables and benches from Chelsea Textiles' Gustavian furniture collection, hand carved and hand painted.