The Home of Alexandra Tolstoy Created With Colefax & Fowler Design Firm | Christie's

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The author and broadcaster invites us on a brief tour of the London home she created with interior design firm Colefax & Fowler, introducing some of the beautiful and eclectic items now being offered in a special online sale
‘This house is a family home,’ says Alexandra Tolstoy of the beautiful six-bedroom Chelsea residence she converted from two adjacent artists’ studios. ‘I wanted it to be really comfortable - not to be stilted and too formal.
‘Everything we’ve got I feel is in its own right very unusual and special.’
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Alexandra Tolstoy: An Interior by Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler runs 4-25 November, Online
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@tommoncrieff1154 3 года назад

She was evicted from this home. It wasn’t hers, it legally belonged to her ex-partner, the father of her children. A Russian-born billionaire, he was pursued through the international courts for corruption and embezzling billions of Russian government money through property, development, banking and political projects. When the High Court of Justice and then the Court of Appeal in London upheld the global freezing of his assets, the judges also ordered him to remain in the UK to appear in court. He fled to France, where he is also a citizen. Since he broke the terms of the court orders, fled the country and failed to answer the Russian Government’s case in London, the Russian Government applied to seize his British assets, which they then did, including this house.

@swicheroo1 2 года назад

Yes, it is like a 19th Century novel really. The kind of novel that might have been written by her ancestor. Also, these kinds of lavish displays of wealth are so often bound up in chicanery and scandal...

@leanneporter2661 2 года назад

Now they can and should seize them back and let Ukraine live in it.

@graceg3250 2 года назад

I wonder how much of those charges were trumped up by Putin.

@Tousanx 2 года назад

I don’t blame her ex husband for fleeing. Putin kills anyone who decides to think for themselves and are no longer he’s men

@CarlConrad-vf6pn Год назад

So. What’s your point?

@TheNijagara 3 года назад

Pleasure to see beautiful Orthodox icons on the mantelpiece 💖

@michelez715 3 года назад

If you live in Claridge's, and can just wander into Colefax & Fowler and commission them to decorate yr home, then you too can have a lovely house.

@avalondreaming1433 3 года назад

But of course!

@srandell 2 года назад

Especially when it’s paid with questionable 💰

@rosalindmartin4469 2 года назад

Aesthetic Justice! We want it NOW!🍹

@janasteele4279 3 года назад

This woman is beautiful and natural - her spirit shines in her home

@emmaphilo4049 2 года назад

Indeed a great lifestyle. I used to live in London and go to Chelsea strolling around to get the rich people energy haha. I was like a kid looking at the toy store window

@velvetindigonight 3 года назад

The children's bedroom was truly magical and full of things to treasure and play with so good for the children's development and so lacking in many homes............................................

@katarinasvensson9801 Год назад

Yes you can se how much she loves her kids she put her heart and soul into this room

@carliwhitehead4581 10 месяцев назад

I would have wanted to die of a broken heart to lose this house. Impressed by her resilience 💪

@janedoe805 3 года назад

It’s quite lovely, l especially loved her botanical prints.

@JijjysMaison 3 года назад

Yes so pretty were'nt they? x

@myhappynest6125 3 года назад

What a lovely collection of the most interesting and beautiful objects.

@JijjysMaison 3 года назад

I concur, I was left feeling is that all ? 2.48 minutes video? aawww

@anoshaperera4367 2 года назад

It's wonderful to see such houses like this and it's amazing 🌹🇱🇰🌹

@roxannedaly279 3 года назад

I love EVERYTHING about your home !!

@dilikdolik 3 года назад

What a lovely home... what a great vibe💕🦋💕🦋💕

@kellieeggers6038 3 года назад

I saw her rented home first and loved it. Actually love it more than this one. Don’t care if she’s rich or poor, sounds like a rough thing to go through

@meh5069 3 года назад

I agree, her rental seems to suit her much better ad well

@williamwoody7607 3 года назад

What rough thing did she go through?

@emmaphilo4049 2 года назад

We all encounter difficult times in life....

@emilyzena7070 2 года назад

Yes, I like her rented, smaller house much more than this. She has such a talent for interior design and such beautiful taste. Gorgeous! And her own clothes. Exquisite.

@selmahare 2 года назад

Yes I much prefer her current smaller rental, it's got bucket loads of character One can see that it's much more her than this house. This place was pretty but it did not, by any mile, have the character that current one has. Sometimes we have to lose everything to come more into our own, and understand that in the end we haven't really lost anything.

@selmahare 2 года назад

This looked like your standard design magazine home, with only a few character notes. I much prefer her current smaller rental, it's got bucket loads of character and it's much cosier than this house. One can see that it's much more her than this house, it's just the cutest home I have ever seen. This place was pretty but it didn't, by a mile, have the character and charm that the current one has. Sometimes one has to lose everything to come even more into one's own, and understand that in the end one hasn't really lost anything.

@taniaortiz6555 Год назад

Couldn't have said it better myself.

@katarinasvensson9801 Год назад

Agree the only cozy room was the kids room

@marciamellow1211 2 года назад

You and your Children are very blessed... Love allllll the creativity and imagination... my kind of home completely.. ❤

@redwoods7370 2 года назад

I love it! Wonderful creativity.

@TheFiown 2 года назад

Sad that she lost this house but she has moved on nicely and her new home is so pretty.

@GwaiZai 2 года назад

lost how? divorce?

@TheFiown 2 года назад

@@GwaiZai Her husbands assets were frozen so they took everything and Alexandra had to start over with the children in a rented house and start to make a living for them all. She is doing well now, very brave lady.

@GwaiZai 2 года назад

@@TheFiown I have a feeling despite that, that she's been doing far better than most of us :/

@TheFiown 2 года назад

@@GwaiZai That's mostly because she is Russian by her father and they are a strong resilient people who have known enormous hardships in their lives and it it still the case today.

@juleso9797 3 года назад

Beautiful home 💕

@bluezebra007 2 месяца назад

What a beautiful home. Daniel and Alexandra did some great work on this collaboration 🙏🏼 Interior design channels are great for ideas… I’m always tinkering with my home having watched a few videos 😃 Thanks for sharing your home with us Alexandra 💕

@mireyapavon7408 2 года назад

Una casa con verdadero sabor a hogar. Bella.

@TheSabinewalkden 3 года назад

Such and unusual building inside. I love the style and am so jealous of those botanical prints.

@kayjay12341 3 года назад

I’m going to look online for botanical prints and recreate something similar to that.

@TheSabinewalkden 3 года назад

@@kayjay12341 Just a quick thought, I usually find botanical print images online and copy and paste them onto a file then adjust the size and print them off. Far cheaper than buying them and then you can put them into a frame. Hope this helps!

@JijjysMaison 3 года назад

we are left with their imprints in our minds for good ....x

@terryarrow702 3 года назад

A beautiful cozy homely lived in stylish home 🌷🌷🌷

@Vivi-cu7ez 3 года назад

Beautiful lighting

@angelaberni8873 3 года назад

Please do show us more of your delightful home !!!

@noellem3417 2 года назад

Beautiful and very livable home!

@sirichaithongyim7944 3 года назад

Wow Beautiful.

@theceramicrepairstudio 3 года назад

Beautiful. 🥰

@samehs2422 3 года назад

Is very beautiful home mashaAllah. I love the kids room.

@sukaicosmica 3 года назад

Beautiful

@visnamacpherson5109 3 года назад

She doesn't live there any more, and lives in Cotswolds. Her Russian ex husband has stolen lots of money from the Russian state, so the Russian government had the permission from the British courts to confiscate this house.

@ivanahanaivana 3 года назад

Ha! And we ordinary mortals think how wonderfull life must be when you're THAT rich. Nothing is as it seems.

@visnamacpherson5109 3 года назад

@@ivanahanaivana exactly!

@liuliu1491 3 года назад

@user-zf9iy9ng6t 3 года назад

The money stolen from the people of Russia.

@annieseaside 3 года назад

Oh dear!

@agnesphilips2714 3 года назад

Rich Londoners live a lavish life. In the UK you really need that old money to really live life well. It's all about generational wealth.

@roscoesfriend 3 года назад

I'm fairly sure her lifestyle was funded by her Russian oligarch husband, now in exile.

@Jamie.Richards 3 года назад

The more of these interior decor and architecture programs I watch the more I realise how unnatainable this lifestyle is unless it's already in your family. If you earn £200,000 a year, which is comfortably into the top 1% of salaries in the UK, that's still shy of a £1m mortgage. You can barely get an apartment in Chelsea for that. It's not uncommon on these programs for someone to live in a £10m home in West London without having an obvious income.

@agnesphilips2714 3 года назад

@@Jamie.Richards Your right. Not sure why they continue to promote lies about accessibility to wealth and nice housing when really about 3% of the population can experience this life style. You either have to be born into it win it or steal it to participate in this fantasy real estate world owned by the uber rich.

@roscoesfriend 3 года назад

@Danbu Hsma She and her husband separated and may be divorced. He is exiled in his palace in France and she lives in the UK with her children. I'd read she was renting a house in Oxfordshire.

@TheSpiritOfTheTimes 3 года назад

@@roscoesfriend The Russian taxpayer, rather.

@paulajf4205 10 месяцев назад

Between the two London homes she's shown around the same time (assuming she only lives in one and left the other), I think this is the nicer. This one has the antique elements, but in a more contemporary, lighter, fresher context. That said, I'm sure what matter most to her are having her things and an overall old aesthetic.

@alcinamariagomespereira7589 2 года назад

Beautifull houve!

@nadimares7153 Год назад

Such a sweet home. :)

@margarets4610 3 года назад

The botanical prints are everything

@JijjysMaison 3 года назад

ooohh so pretty yessss ...x

@patbraden4342 2 года назад

Comfortably beautiful

@dastaro4044 2 года назад

Прекрасный дом Потомки Льва Толстого Смотрю на Вас и думаю о Ямной Поляне, что-то перекликается

@nesilnokusachaja 2 года назад

i‘m in love 🥰

@umamagomedova3816 2 года назад

It' wonderful lovely

@juliancoulden1753 3 года назад

Comfortable, elegant, and welcoming. A play on the English country home, despite her Russian heritage!

@lidijatravina274 3 года назад

Your home is wonder!

@carolannnoble3981 3 года назад

Stunning! So many lovely ideas. Truly reflects “family”

@zippyustar6350 2 года назад

I love those botany frames all lined in rows I would want to be in a hammock hanging in front of them so I could look at their every detail 🤓

@MicaRayan 3 года назад

It's dainty and cosy.... that's wonderful and love the palette💎🏺

@yulia2301 2 года назад

very cosy and airy

@glorecitatan2436 2 года назад

lovely home fitted of a countess...

@Valeria-nk4mg 2 года назад

Lindo 🥰🥰🥰

@jaquelinepacheco1435 2 года назад

perfect

@methinks1507 3 года назад

Jolly good ol chap

@ShazayKhan 3 года назад

Bombarded with stuff! Else looks good.

@kadirkacir12 2 года назад

Bu. Çok. Mükemmel. Ve. Model. Tedrık Ederım seni. Hocam😍😍👍👍

@alcinamariagomespereira7589 2 года назад

Beautifull houve

@glgardener4972 3 года назад

Lovely. I like that it looks lived in in a wonderful way. So many homes shown look stiff and unused.Would love to see more.

@Mfl.8580 2 года назад

Que linda

@feeline1120 3 года назад

I wish I had that much money..life would be easier

@rg31404 2 года назад

1:06 wow that massive flag doesn't work at all

@veralake5898 3 года назад

Can someone explain this (bad) architecture to me? Wonderful interior design in a weird row house 80s loft space that has a dropped second floor that covers all the light (?) It would be nice to see the exterior of the building to make sense of it.

@mariahoulihan9483 2 года назад

what's a row house?

@irinaoconnor3236 3 года назад

All the money her hasband still from Russia and there people..I not surprised to see all this....and for her still not enough...She came to Russian TV and demand help for her pure ..miserable living in England ...She say nothing to eat for here and children in London ..can't pay bills ...and here in this display no spases where to have a spat!!!Well done Dear!!!!

@alinatiwa 3 года назад

How is it possible still with the surname Tolstoy❓

@irinaoconnor3236 3 года назад

@@alinatiwa Very simple!!! like her husband did...He live naw in France...and when he saw in his dreams Russia...he have never stop cold sweat !!!!because Russuan jail not like "4 seasons hotel "...."Black dolphin " would be best for him.I hope!!!

@alinatiwa 3 года назад

@@irinaoconnor3236 , too bad for him....

@Alisia._ 3 года назад

Irina Oconnor , correct except he was her partner , not officially husband

@mariahoulihan9483 2 года назад

although, its said Putin lives like a King and has squirrelled a lot of money away himself.

@user-gz5mg8rv5p 2 года назад

Красиво!

@monamustafa5896 3 года назад

😍😍👍

@openyoureyesandseethefutur5802 2 года назад

your love for the Ukraine people, is appreciated, God save them

@birdwatcherize 2 года назад

Amazing what you can do with a shed load of money

@lcg5790 3 года назад

How sad to lose it.

@irinav.1797 3 года назад

So many things! And the British flag!

@fudge6509 3 года назад

That to me was maybe what I liked the least! Why hang a flag in a house ?

@Sapiens401 2 года назад

Is she descendant of the writer?

@janetcorey5102 3 года назад

So many beautiful items however,

@isaywhatithink4874 2 года назад

I would be embarrassed to show the property bought with the money of her infamous ex-husband. Money was stolen from the Russian state by her hubby. Leo Tolstoy is turning in his grave.

@nina-ex9vx 2 года назад

Very true

@user-dk3tg8um5b 3 года назад

Hello,I have subscribed.Can I send your pictures to the mainland China platform?Thank you.Reply

@nalognatupost 2 года назад

Не забрали дом?

@ls-tale7877 2 года назад

дом ТОТ забрали - А это она "маленький" показывает, в который, бедняжка, перебралась)

@luci1474 2 года назад

I say one of her previous homes. I think she was renting and I liked that vive way more than this one. This is way more curated and still nice but for sure the other feeling is lost at least in the video. Still beautiful.

@jeffreyadams648 3 года назад

Where’s her money come from?

@user-nx7rw8el4l 3 года назад

Очень милая женщина.

@user-rk8pm6ok8j 3 года назад

пишут баба какого-то нашего олигарха, а теперь бабки наворованные у него отобрали , съехала на квартиру

@anastasias.7186 3 года назад

бывший олигарх всё таки содержит её? чем там история закончилась

@user-rk8pm6ok8j 3 года назад

а кто он?

@user-gf3wn1ne9n 2 года назад

@@user-rk8pm6ok8j Сергей Пугачёв

@stralenmax1384 2 года назад

What Russians call седьмая вода на киселе. Means her blood is so diluted from Leo Tolstoy that it has nothing to do with the name. I wonder if she would have same attitude if her name would be Ivanova

@sentimentalboxer 2 года назад

Hmm, I actually was thinking she looks like Leo a lot. Besides, her creativity and a sense of wonder ( like riding horses all over the world), cultured tastes, as well as authentically embracing her heritage, makes her a worthy descendent of his, no matter how distant.

@stralenmax1384 2 года назад

@@sentimentalboxer she most probably is a nice person. Please don't get me wrong. This surname would haven't been famous without Lev. As she sais herself, her family branch and Lev's one had a common ancestor in 18th century which probably 50 to 100 years before the writer was born. Needless to say how distant these brunches were even at the Lev's birth. There are hundreds of direct(!) descendants of Tolstoy today and thousands of cousins, now imagine if everyone of them would speculate on the name.

@shanlynwebb 3 года назад

Lots of stuff. But yet boring.

@areejallehbj670 3 года назад

✨✨✨✨✨✨👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🧠🧠🧠🧠🥰

@TonyCarrollPassion4Motorsport 3 года назад

Ohh Wow special Indeed Surly Shes Not moving ??

@ajfx 3 года назад

Yes, the Russian government seized the property and kicked her out. Shocking to say the least

@MTMF.london 3 года назад

@@ajfx Nothing shocking there. Her (ex) husband allegedly had dodgy dealings with the Russian government. He stopped providing for her and she had to move.

@ajfx 3 года назад

@@MTMF.london they never married

@annamariapisano3397 3 года назад

Lingua italiana

@Theozzie11 3 года назад

Old Money..... Would her ancestors be proud of this and what she has done with this amazing gift?

@amysill3815 3 года назад

Yes, of course, they would.

@wickandde 3 года назад

@@amysill3815 I very much doubt that, this is all stolen money and her husband is a criminal, the rest of her family are dodgy brexiters. Not sure why Christies is advertising the very average home of a criminal.

@katie8325 2 года назад

@@wickandde oh do bore off. As if Putin isn’t massively corrupt!

@mayuriemoet3384 Год назад

Although its short lived , I wonder what enjoyment they got 😅🤣😂😶

@jokiep65 2 года назад

I do not trust the money that bought all this....

@ginafriend1690 3 года назад

Different to say the least

@orion8835 3 года назад

Yes I found it quite dry and wooden and the botanical prints overkill. The children’s “toys” are just too antique to be charming and came across as forced. Also the space looks messy and not layered quite right. That said the owner was ecstatic so there we are.

@miuprada 3 года назад

Poor,Lev Nikoláievich Tolstói !

@sexyswoman8596 3 года назад

@mariannek4593 3 года назад

Money comes from .........@#%%

@dot1384 3 года назад

Really? It is very average.

@lornamarie5544 3 года назад

It’s about location location location. This is MONEY

@tyra925 2 года назад

proper minging gaff that like

@irinaoconnor3236 3 года назад

This display nothing to do with MY!!! beloved Russia !No in London ..and not when you not speak russian...This display for hopping to be counted Russian. I would love to see her hours like this in rural village...that is real...by forest and lake.. not this house of her husband stolen money from Russia.

@laura-fn3qg 2 года назад

Que mal gosto esse quadro de borboletas mortas , dead .

@andreaandrea6716 8 месяцев назад

YES! No more TVs over fireplaces (which is very BAD Feng Shui AND it is ugly). If I walk into a house and see this, it tells me everything I need to know about those living there.

@LM-gc2cf 3 года назад

privilege personified lol. beautiful house. riding with her kids in central asia, love that for her though

@headron66 3 года назад

@L M have a look on house and garden here on RU-vid you will see a slightly different Alexandra Tolstoy.

@tz-mk1dg 2 года назад

Married to a Russian Oligarch says PLENTY.

@PS-gw8sm 2 года назад

Oh wow this house is beautiful- her new rental looks a bit of a mess

@Aliciafernanda100 3 года назад

Don't like it, very cold without spirit, it doesnt look like a real home

@tyra925 2 года назад

it looks manky

@helmutgensen4738 2 года назад

shameless!

@pumpkin1772 3 года назад

Clutter with a capital 'C'.

@user-po2wk7qs9o 3 года назад

انت مريض و مو فاهم لما تتحطم حياتك تماما الحل تبني حياه جديده ليس فيها من الماضي اي شي لا الاشكال ولا الالوان ولا الاماكن ولا الاشياء والا الاشخاص ولا الاوقات ولا العادات لان كل الماضي بامراض الماضي لا تقترب من الماضي في اي شي والا ستنهار من جديد فيه انا عندما ابني حياتي الجديده الهدف لايكون فيها من الماضي ابدا اي شي وسيلتي لذلك تصوفي انا والروحانيات والبداوه وانتبه لا يعود الي الماضي من خلال تصوفي او الروحانيات او البداوه ابني حياة طابعها العام المشكله الرءيسيه اللى تفرعت منها كل المشاكل وهويتي ليه حتى هويتي تدمرت او قل طابعها العام مشاكلي الكبرى عبر زي ما تبغى ثم الاولى فالاولى من المشاكل

@wickandde 3 года назад

I had to google this because of the comments, guess this is what stolen money buys! Too bad her partner is an abhorrent character. Nothing good ever comes out of badly earned money, that's certainly true here. Very bad taste advertising the home of a criminal. Her family is hardly better, Brexiters, gross. Bad move Christies!