Homes & Gardens

A KIND OF MAGIC

visit to this house in London cannot fail to ignite a sense of childlike curiosity. A glimpse of the sitting room reveals amazing Indian river scenes, with elephants drinking from the banks and tigers lurking in the long grass. Upstairs, flamingos gaze serenely from the bathroom walls, while fantastical scenes of London in the lower ground-floor playroom include a toad riding a penny-farthing as a whale glides down the Thames, watched by monkeys on lampposts. Small wonder that play dates

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