‘I love it when the leaves fall in’: the flat that takes open-plan living to extremes

Fashion designer Maureen Doherty’s stunning mews home is as un-private as they come

As you mount the narrow stairs up to Maureen Doherty’s home, there is a distinct smoky smell. I am in the home of a style doyenne, so assume it’s one of those fashionable, charcoal-scented candles, burning expensively in a corner. But no. “Cigarettes,” she laughs. Like Doherty herself, it is unexpected: in this sanitised world, who smokes in their own living room? But then, who has an open-plan shower or puts guests up in the bathroom?

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