Rita Konig is one of London’s best-loved interior designers, and in a city known for them, that’s really saying something. This month, she’s expanding to the United States, running her business out of Palm Beach. But that’s only one of her many projects—she’s recently launched a range of fabric and wallpaper with Schumacher, debuted new products with the Lacquer Company, and is hard at work on a book about her own house, Oxford Gardens, with Simon & Schuster, which will be published in 2026. Herewith, she shares her key components to the good life. —Ashley Baker
Airline: One that serves really good, ordinary food. It seems that they can’t resist trying to make it fancy, and therefore it is always bad, whatever cabin I seem to be in. When I was 25 years old, I flew to Turkey with my mother and Mark Birley, who was then king of London’s nightlife. Mark produced a picnic on the flight that I think had been made at Harry’s Bar for him. It was a whole roast chicken, cold, sliced, and put back together and wrapped in foil. And a delicious bottle of red wine. I think there were linen napkins, too.
Airport: A small one. Toulon Hyères Airport, in France, is a delight. It seems to serve private planes and EasyJet. It’s about 10 minutes from the plane to the car. And then 15 minutes to the charming port that you leave from for Porquerolles, my new favorite destination.
Breakfast, weekday: I never quite manage that.
Breakfast, weekend: In my dressing gown with friends in a pretty house, sitting at a long table for hours, with people coming and going. I like sitting through many shifts until about 11 a.m., eating cold toast with hard butter and marmalade, possibly a sausage with English mustard and good coffee.
