Nicky Haslam (Nicholas Ponsonby Haslam), British, b.1939
Original Interior Design for Townsley 50th Birthday Party, Berkeley Hotel (London), 14.10.96
Window wall ballroom
Watercolour drawing on sketch book paper
Signed "Nicholas Haslam Sept 96" (1996), (top)
45 cms x 35.5 cms (sheet)
62 cms x 51 cms (framed).

Nicholas Ponsonby Haslam (Nicky Haslam) is an English Eton educated interior designer and socialite, and founder of the London-based interior design firm, NH Studio Ltd.

Haslam,  “the most well connected man in Britain” according to Tatler Magazine and a close friend of the artist Andy Warhol, produced a party design for amongst others The Rolling Stones in 1963, which was immortalised in a book by Tom Wolfe.

Haslam moved from the Hunting Lodge, a magical Tudor/Jacobean revival home in Hampshire, which, for the 50 years he lived there, he made distinctively his own. Deciding to downsize, in 2019 he held a sale of his possessions at Bonhams, divesting himself of years of accumulation. Months later, ‘beloved friends made the enchanting and life-changing offer’ of taking over a honey-stone pavilion on their estate in the Cotswolds.

Barry Stephen Townsley CBE is a British financier and fine art investor.  A collector of art, on 14 May 2014 Townsley sold Andy Warhol's Six Self Portraits, 1986 lot 23 for $30,125,000. The works depict a suite of rainbow-hued images of the artist's gaunt face and were acquired in 1986 from the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London at Warhol's acclaimed Self-Portrait exhibition. Townsley purchased the works before the exhibition opened.

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