iona Golfar is on the phone from her bath in Shepherd’s Bush, London. Her home is filled with carefully sourced items, the best of the best, from shelves of delicate glassware to vintage textiles and original artwork. Golfar is known for her work as a journalist, and her taste is defined by constant collecting, an impulse now turned to curating, in small quantities, for her retail store, The Little Shop at Fowey Hall, Cornwall. Her home, where the family tortoise roams the kitchen freely, is one of London’s most inviting. Shelves of books, water jugs, trinkets and pretty packets of soap surround her bathtub, which is part relaxing haven, part social space where she receives the occasional chatty visit from her husband, her two adult kids or a dog or two while she’s taking a soak.
Everything compels me to get into a bath…
Happy, sad, tired… it’s my best place to be. A bath is one of the most important rituals of my day. It recalibrates me.