Inside out: the best nature-inspired homeware for summer

The British summer is notoriously hit and miss — but you can still enjoy a taste of the great outdoors, even when the weather is being temperamental.

Designers are taking inspiration from mother nature, embracing cloud motifs and palm prints and crafting furniture out of logs, leaving the wood’s grain exposed for maximum naturalism.

Even wallpaper has had a wild makeover — look to Cole and Son or Sanderson for a terrific selection of chic forest-inspired designs.

Take a trip to Petersham Nurseries in Richmond where the café is a sight to behold, overhung by an enormous canopy of foliage with shrubs everywhere. Talk about eco-chic.