We are Inigo

Inigo is an estate agency for Britain’s most marvellous historic homes, from the team behind The Modern House.

At Inigo, we believe a beautiful home is a pleasure that never ages. We connect discerning individuals with extraordinary spaces, no matter the price or provenance.

Covering urban and rural locations across Britain, our team combines proven experience selling distinctive homes with design and architectural expertise. We unlock the true value of every cottage, coach house and conversion we represent by telling its story with in-depth features and magazine-quality photography.

We take our name from Inigo Jones, the self-taught genius who kick-started a golden age of home design.

Inigo is a Certified B Corporation, part of a global community of businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental impact.

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Our Inspirations

Our inspirations are diverse: from the freewheeling creativity of the Bloomsbury group to the finest fashion houses and Britain’s most brilliant craftspeople – and, of course, the grand classical visions of Inigo Jones himself.

We pursue this love of the idiosyncratic in everything we do, whether that’s appraising an immaculately preserved country house, or discovering exciting new talents offering fresh perspectives on the past.

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The Guild

Our Guild is a select group of creatives and thinkers united by their eclectic taste and eye for the extraordinary. In their inspired ideas and creative pursuits, they exemplify what we’re about.

Sophie Ashby’s irresistibly friendly interiors are the result of what she calls “continual foraging”. That might mean sourcing art from across the globe, or working directly with craftsmen and artisans to develop special pieces, or it might mean picking her way across the colour wheel to discover new, arresting combinations of tone and texture. Any which way, the result is always bursting with character, approaching the antique with a curious eye, yet bringing it all together with a bracing modernity.

Her own home in London’s Spitalfields, which she shares with husband and fellow Guild member Charlie Casely-Hayford, has an impressive history. Not only is it a beautiful example of the Georgian style – which she admires for its “proportions and elegance” – it also formerly belonged to the interior designer and writer Jocasta Innes, author of the 1982 colour bible Paint Magic, whose spirit lives on its rendered terracotta walls. “Apparently she was inspired by the colors of China where she grew up,” says Ashby. “It’s something that just feels really rich and unique.”

A brilliant fashion designer, an impeccable dresser and, most importantly, a charming human being, Charlie Casely-Hayford is, in our humble opinion, the very best kind of triple threat. In his work for Casely-Hayford, a label that he co-founded in 2009 with his father, the late Joe Casely-Hayford OBE, he continually delves into Britain’s sartorial and subcultural past, returning season after season with clothes that take time-honoured tailoring techniques to bold new places via modern cuts, daring prints and sporty details.

Charlie’s boutique on London’s Chiltern street – long a destination for anyone looking for a bespoke suit with a bit more of a kick to it – is worth a visit not just for the beautiful clothing but also the soulful interiors, designed by his wife and fellow Guild member, Sophie Ashby. Go to admire the antique dressers and African art and, perhaps, to catch a glimpse of such illustrious clients as Tinie Tempah and Jodie Comer. But, be warned, you may just emerge with a new peacoat.

Duncan Campbell is a multidisciplinary designer whose eclectic sensibility brings colour and wit to everything he touches. As one half of the creative studio Campbell-Rey he has been tapped in the past by the likes of Bentley, Christie’s, Zara Home, and Clos19 for projects ranging from art direction to event design. Today the studio is focused solely on interiors and product design, with residential projects in London, New York and the Netherlands underway, as well as Campbell-Rey’s ongoing collaboration with the Venetian glassmaker Laguna B.

To the Inigo Guild, Duncan brings not just a love of a good time – and thank goodness for that – but a deep passion for 18th-century architecture in all its forms, from the exuberance of English Baroque to the austerity of Neoclassicism and the mad frivolity of Strawberry Hill Gothic and Chinese Rococo. His own homes, in London and Gloucestershire, which he shares with his partner, the designer Luke Edward Hall, are living proof that la dolce vita lives on in our grey 21st century – for further proof, see his Instagram. “The mix of styles is still important,” he says “but so are the stories attached to things and the way they remind me of a place or a person or a trip somewhere. It’s much less about individual pieces, but rather the feeling of home that they evoke all together.”

Lucinda Chambers’ visual signature is an infectious sense of fun, derived from her ability to mix patterns, colours and textures with both wild abandon and supreme elegance. As fashion director of British Vogue from 1992-2017, she informed the tastes of the nation while consulting for brands including Prada and Marni, eventually becoming a designer at the latter. Today, she is the designer of Colville – a label she launched in 2018 with ex-Marni colleagues Molly Molloy and Kristen Forss – and the co-founder of Collagerie, an e-Commerce platform on which she turns her magpie-like eye upon the best high street and designer brands.

Lucinda derives her love of interiors from her mother, a resourceful single parent who brought up her children while renovating and decorating houses. Having moved 18 times as a child, she prefers to stay put these days, enjoying the continually evolving character of her Edwardian home in Shepherd’s Bush, where she has lived for 30 years. She’ll be the first to admit her vibrant interiors – awash with colour, filled with curiosities, and humming with clashing patterns – “start with a plan”, but therein lies their appeal: hers is a home where layers of lived history combine and collide in the best possible way.

As editor-in-chief of fashion’s most intelligent magazine, The Gentlewoman, Penny Martin has long flown the flag for a kind of style that leapfrogs every passing trend. Formerly chair of the fashion imagery department at London College of Fashion, and editor-in-chief of Nick Knight’s innovative online platform SHOWstudio.com, she brings both taste and an academic perspective to the field of contemporary pop culture, celebrating a mind-expanding range of accomplished women in each biannual issue, with past cover stars including talent as fascinatingly diverse as Beyoncé, Angela Lansbury, Simone Biles, Cindy Sherman and Margaret Atwood.

Though she admits that modernism is her “mother tongue”, she currently splits her time between a Victorian cottage in London and a fisherman’s house in the East Neuk of Fife, near where she grew up. “It’s not really the style of a house that attracts me,” she says, “I just want to live in a place with a strong personality, whether modern or historic.” Recently, she’s been delving further into the history of her local area in Fife, discovering many fine examples of local vernacular furniture – a pursuit, she says, “which could prove expensive.”

Katie Fontana is the co-founder and creative director of Plain English – two words that have become a shorthand for “good taste” in the interiors world. Established in 1992, Plain English creates magnificent bespoke kitchens and interiors the old fashioned way, by hand, drawing in particular on the “understated simplicity” of early Georgian design. It’s a period and aesthetic that, says Katie, “has a serenity and quietness that I find endlessly pleasing and never seem to tire of.”

To the Inigo Guild, Katie brings her finely tuned aesthetic sensibility, a passion for the handmade and an endless curiosity about the design of the past, and how it can be reimagined. “I hunt out overlooked examples and details, joinery and quirks,” she says. “All the answers are there, you just have to look for them. The skill is in choosing which parts to use.”

Charles Saumarez Smith is a writer, curator and historian whose career in the art world has established him as one of Britain’s pre-eminent cultural figures. Mixing a deep knowledge of art and architectural history with a marked sensitivity to the zeitgeist, he has steered the development of several of the nation’s most prestigious institutions, including the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts. Today, he is professor of Architectural History at the Royal Academy and chairman of The Royal Drawing School, a trustee of The Garden Museum and an emeritus trustee of ArtUK and Charleston.

Charles lives with his wife, the artist Romilly Saumarez Smith, in a magnificent Georgian townhouse in east London, which they have painstakingly renovated to preserve and restore many of its original 18th-century features. To step inside is to encounter a singular aesthetic, suffused with deep colour, entrancing artworks and layers of antique texture.