There is a standard passage in articles about people's houses in which the owner recalls the terrible state of the property before they moved in and saved it with their own unquestionable taste. But that was certainly not the case when Lauren Gurvich King, a dealer in twentieth-century design, took me on a tour of the house that she and her husband Jeremy King - the restaurateur and hotelier - moved into two years ago.

The early-nineteenth-century town house, on a Belgravia street that I have long been an admirer of, was last owned and decorated by the renowned interior designer Jane Churchill. In fact, it was featured in House & Garden eight years ago (in the February 2007 issue), shortly after Jane had imprinted the elegant English style for which she is known on the five-floor, Grade II-listed house.

She married Jeremy in 2012 and their collaborations have included Corbin & King's Colbert in Sloane Square, Fischer's, their Viennese-inspired eatery in Marylebone, and the new Beaumont hotel in Mayfair. With some help from her friend Jan Showers, a Dallas-based interior designer, she has applied a similarly eclectic and appealing style to the house. 'I loved working with Jan and her team on choosing the fabrics and furnishings,' Lauren says.