ANTHONY AND VALERIE EVANS'S LONDON FLAT(7)

Anthony and Valerie Evans.

In 2000, Anthony and some associates made a successful bid to buy Cole & Son, the venerable British manufacturer of wqallpaper. After raising the money, they set about rehiring all the workers who had been made redundant in recent years. "They were not just factory workers," he explains, "but craftsmen with tremendous expertise." Since then Cole & Son has gone from "strength to strength," particularly in the United States, where the wallpaper is distributed by Lee Jofa.