PETRA PALUMBO

emoirs can take many forms. Long-spooling novels; tell-all diaries; intimate songs. The sustainable homeware designer Petra Palumbo has painted hers onto Delft tiles. There’s the Citroen 2CV received from her father on her 18th birthday, which she still pootles around in on the country roads near her home on the banks of the River Beauly. A Lebanese flag that nods to her mother’s heritage. The cowboy boots that remind her of long, hot summers spent horse-riding. “It’s really my life in tiles, ” she smiles. “They’re sentimental, but they’re also a bit tongue in cheek, and I think that’s what I’m like too. It’s important to have things in your home that