Celebrating 30 years of international interior design at the V&A
We are delighted to share that Rascal & Roses has been selected for the Andrew Martin Interior Design Review Volume 30, the landmark 30th anniversary edition of one of the world’s most established international interior design publications.
Founded by Martin Waller in 1996, the Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year Award was created to recognise outstanding interior design from around the world. Thirty years later, the annual Andrew Martin Interior Design Review has become an extraordinary record of international interior design, bringing together the work of 100 selected designers in its 500-page anniversary edition.
For Rascal & Roses founder and designer Verity Coleman, and for the whole studio, being selected for Volume 30 represents an incredibly special moment.
Andrew Martin Interior Design Review Volume 30, the 30th anniversary edition.
Over three decades, the Andrew Martin Interior Design Review and its accompanying award have celebrated some of the most influential names in international interior design.
Previous International Interior Designer of the Year winners include Kelly Hoppen, the inaugural winner in 1996, alongside Kit Kemp, Martyn Lawrence Bullard and Axel Vervoordt.
The 30th anniversary therefore represented far more than the publication of another edition. It marked three decades of changing interiors, influences, craftsmanship and ways of living.
To have Rascal & Roses included among the designers selected for this landmark Volume 30 makes being part of the Review particularly meaningful.
Celebrating at the Victoria and Albert Museum
The 30th anniversary was celebrated with a very special evening at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, bringing together designers and figures from across the international design community.
At the heart of the evening was the presentation of the 30th Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year Award to Ben Pentreath, with the award presented by Thomas Heatherwick.
Ben Pentreath’s name now joins an international roll call of Andrew Martin winners stretching back to Kelly Hoppen in 1996.
For us, attending this landmark celebration while simultaneously becoming part of Volume 30 made the evening especially memorable.
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, setting for the Andrew Martin 30th anniversary celebration
Andrew Martin founder Martin Waller with 2026 International Interior Designer of the Year Ben Pentreath and award presenter Thomas Heatherwick during the 30th anniversary celebrations at the V&A
Celebrating 30 years of the Andrew Martin Interior Design Review at the V&A in London
Rascal & Roses in Andrew Martin Interior Design Review Volume 30
Seeing the Rascal & Roses name and our interiors within the pages of Volume 30 is something we are enormously proud of.
Our four-page feature brings together a collection of interiors that reflect many of the qualities at the heart of the Rascal & Roses approach: colour, pattern, character, craftsmanship and rooms that feel collected rather than overly styled.
In the Review, Rascal & Roses is described as creating “warm, characterful interiors”, while our design philosophy is expressed simply:
“Good design should feel personal, comfortable and lived in.”
It is a deceptively simple sentence, but perhaps the best summary of what we hope to achieve.
Whether we are designing a listed country property, a family home, a London townhouse, a coastal retreat or an independent school, we are interested in creating interiors that belong to their surroundings and to the people who use them.
The starting point is never simply a particular look.
Instead, we consider the building, its architecture, its history, the people who will live or work there and the story the interior should tell.
Verity Coleman and Rascal & Roses featured in Andrew Martin Interior Design Review Volume 30
Characterful British interiors with a sense of place
The interiors selected for the Review demonstrate many of the recurring threads within the Rascal & Roses interior design approach.
Historic architecture sits comfortably alongside contemporary colour. Antiques are combined with bespoke upholstery and new pieces. Patterned textiles, wallpapers, rugs, artwork and objects build layers gradually, allowing a room to feel as though it has evolved rather than simply been installed.
Our approach naturally leans towards traditional British interiors interpreted with colour, personality and a contemporary sensibility.
Original architectural features are respected and celebrated wherever possible. Bold colour can bring energy to historic spaces, while pattern, artwork, textiles and antique furniture introduce individuality and warmth.
Above all, the rooms have to work.
A beautifully designed family home should still feel like a family home. A historic building should retain its character. And a room should become richer, rather than poorer, through being lived in.
Colour, pattern, antiques and contemporary pieces come together in one of the Rascal & Roses interiors selected for Andrew Martin Interior Design Review Volume 30
Characterful period interiors by Rascal & Roses, featured in Andrew Martin Interior Design Review Volume 30
Layered colour, pattern and period architecture within the Rascal & Roses feature in Andrew Martin Interior Design Review Volume 30
Interior design from Herefordshire to London and beyond
Rascal & Roses is a Herefordshire interior design studio working throughout the UK, undertaking residential interiors alongside a growing portfolio of work for independent schools and historic educational buildings.
At the time Volume 30 was published, our Andrew Martin profile referenced projects including a listed hop kiln in Herefordshire, a coastal holiday home in the Scottish Isles, townhouses in Fulham and Wimbledon, schools in Derbyshire and Oxfordshire, a family home in Herefordshire and an apartment in Maida Vale.
It is a deliberately varied portfolio.
What connects those projects is not geography or a prescribed house style, but our belief that an interior should respond to the architecture and character of its setting.
We have particular experience working with period and listed properties, where respecting a building’s original features is balanced with the practical requirements of contemporary life.
Alongside our residential interior design work, designing for independent schools has become an important part of the Rascal & Roses studio.
These buildings require many of the same instincts: an understanding of historic architecture, longevity and craftsmanship, combined with spaces that are welcoming, distinctive and designed around the people who actually use them.
The people behind the interiors
One of the loveliest parts of the V&A celebration was sharing the evening with friends and fellow designers.
Verity celebrated with her friend and fellow Volume 30 designer Charlotte Stuart, alongside Rebecca Hughes and Ed O’Donnell, whose work is also represented in this year’s Review, and Anca Enica, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Designeers.
Anca and Designeers have also explored the story behind this landmark anniversary, speaking with Andrew Martin founder Martin Waller about 30 years of the Interior Design Review, changing tastes, international influences and the importance of remaining curious in design.
For all the attention naturally given to finished rooms, evenings like this are a reminder that the world of interior design is also built upon people, conversations, collaborations and friendships.
Verity Coleman with fellow Volume 30 designer Charlotte Stuart and Designeers founder and Editor-in-Chief Anca Enica at the Andrew Martin 30th anniversary celebration
Celebrating Volume 30 at the V&A with fellow designers and friends, including Rebecca Hughes, Charlotte Stuart, Ed O’Donnell, JP Banks, with Verity Coleman and Ellie Morgan from Rascal & Roses
A landmark edition
Thirty years is an extraordinary milestone.
Since Martin Waller established the awards in 1996, the Review has grown into an international platform celebrating interior design from around the world, with the 2026 anniversary edition bringing together its selected Top 100 designers.
For Rascal & Roses to become part of that story in its 30th year is a genuine honour.
Seeing our work reproduced in the book is incredibly special, but perhaps the most rewarding part is seeing the homes and spaces entrusted to us by our clients recognised on an international stage.
Those interiors exist because clients allowed us into their homes, trusted our ideas, embraced colour and pattern, commissioned craftspeople and makers, and gave us the opportunity to create places that feel distinctly their own.
So this recognition belongs, in part, to all of them too.
Here’s to the next 30 years of rooms with personality, stories and, above all, people at their heart.