'Gentle, gracious living': Laura Ashley and how homestead chic was born in Wales
- Posted on September 4, 2025
- By BBC News
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'Gentle, gracious living': Laura Ashley and how homestead chic was born in Wales

Decades before today's prairie look, Welsh lifestyle guru Laura Ashley was selling a rural, nostalgic idyll. Now, her rose-tinted vision of a "simple life" is more popular than ever.