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Can a Chanel handbag on a wall be considered an artwork? Can a Swarovski-studded shoe, displayed on a plinth, constitute a sculpture? They can in Tara Nash-King's home, but then she lives, breathes and works fashion to the max from her very bijou mews house in - where else but - Notting Hill. She bought the three-storey house four years ago as a desirable white shell and, as the owner of Chic & Seek, a fashion retail company that sells pre-owned Pradas, Chanels and the like, has made it her home, office and showroom. Her mantra, painted in shocking pink on the office wall: 'One Girl's Freak is another Girl's Chic!'
Not surprisingly for a girl whose hand towels are multi-striped Missoni, Nash-King's decorating style is all about colour, print and pattern. The first thing she did when she moved in was wind a garland of pink silk roses along the outside balcony and paint the living room French windows day-glo pink. "Notting Hill is an exciting, vibrant place - colourful, multi-stranded, eclectic - and I wanted my new home to reflect these elements," she says. "Besides, my last home, a flat in South Kensington, was all neutrals and quiet good taste. I'd had enough of that: here, I wanted to break out."
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