Little Greene at the Livingetc House Tours
This year, we participated in the Livingetc House Tours, an event that sees readers of the magazine given exclusive access to some of London's most beautiful homes.
Featuring six houses in Peckham, the tour saw houses open their doors for guests to discover inspiration and ideas for their own interior design projects.
One of the properties featured a shed painted in our green shade, 'Jewel Beetle'. The colour is inspired by Ellen Terry, a renowned Shakespearean actress, who was immortalised as Lady Macbeth in an 1889 portrait by John Singer Sargent. In that painting she is seen in a spectacular green dress, crocheted to look like chainmail, embroidered with gold and decorated with a thousand iridescent wings from the green jewel beetle, which shed their colourful wings naturally. The dress is preserved within the Ellen Terry Museum at Smallhythe Place, the half-timbered Kent farmhouse she fell in love with and bought in 1899.
Featured: Jewel Beetle Shed
