My First Apartamento: Florence Welch - NOWNESS

Through the looking glass into the British chanteuse’s eccentric Georgian townhouse. “I don’t think I’m quite comfortable in minimalist spaces,” says multi-platinum selling artist Florence Welch of her whimsically cluttered London pad, captured in this episode of NOWNESS’s collaboration with Apartamento magazine. “It’s the first house that I moved into after I moved out of my mum’s – but my mum said I wasn’t allowed to move further than ten minutes from the house, so here I am.” “My mum said I wasn’t allowed to move further than ten minutes from the house, so here I am.” With her roots firmly in South London – it’s where Welch was born and also attended art school – the musician reimagined a “mature“ version of her childhood bedroom and a cabinet of curiosities. “I haven’t really changed the space that much,” she says. “It was just coats of paint and changing door knobs, because small things can really make the difference. Finding bits of furniture you like and re-upholstering them… I’ve always been li