The big day, three ways

How do the experts decorate their homes for the festive season? Leading designers share their secrets with Nicole Gray Stylist and co-founder of Collagerie

Lucinda Chambers No matter how long the former Vogue fashion director and co-founder of design emporium Collagerie spends on the tablescape design, it’s the Christmas menus that always get the family talking. ‘The question, “Does anyone actually like turkey?” is asked each year. Once I deviated and did roast beef. Never again,’ she says. Christmas planning gets started early in her household, with Chambers looking at baubles for her Collagerie edits by mid-october. ‘There isn’t a single decoration that I haven’t seen by November.’ An interiors magpie, she can’t resist adding one or two new decorations to her collection each year – but she relies on the Christmas box of treasures her mother made