Anouska Hempel

Spear’s Review

Anouska Hempel is celebrated for her command of the Grand Manner – a design technique influenced by classical art, with ‘calm intimacy and subtle layering’. One project of note brings the Bosphorus to Paris, inspired by Hempel’s Arabic and Lebanese connections. A part of Paris’s Rue Washington becomes ‘a Moroccan oasis’ – dark green and velvet feature in Hempel’s Hotel Monsieur George.

Design historian Marcus Binney praises her eclectic designs, which combine both beauty and charm. ‘[She] could have been born in any era, anywhere in the world – and, however lowly or isolated, she would have beaten a path to opportunity, success and good living,’ he says.