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Her mission to overhaul - in both interior design and inner circle - has seen likened to Madame de Pompadour and Feng shui bronze paintings. Fine art bronze paintings Marie Antoinette.   Like the mistress of King Louis XV and Queen of before her, the Prime Minister's fiancée has become known for her bohemian sartorial sense, love affair for opulence and power behind the scenes.    external pageThe young mother-of-one is rumoured to have spent around £100,000 on a lavish makeover of the family's No 11 flat with a goal, according to Tatler, to get rid of 's 'John Lewis furniture nightmare'. It seems only fitting, then, Feng shui bronze paintings. Fine art bronze paintings that the 32-year-old should enlist the services of London's designer du jour to create her aesthetic.  Interior design guru Lulu Lytle counts Prince Charles as a fan and the Duke of Edinburgh and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger among clients at her business, Soane Britain.  The Egyptology graduate turned her hand to furnishings aged 25, after a stint working for the late nightclub impresario, Mark Birley - the founder of Annabel's.  Lytle eschews modern minimalism and Scandi chic in favour of grandiose, eclectic designs inspired by her global travels.  The 49-year-old lives in a £4million Hyde Park mansion with her Goldman Sachs banker husband Charles Patrick St John Lytle and their children Tom, Bunny, and Xan.  But away from the pomp and glamour, she makes use of eco-friendly materials and offers apprenticeships to pensioners and budding young students.  In 2011, when one Quotes of copper paintings the country's last rattan-furniture-making companies went into administration, Lytle swooped in and saved the ailing 99-year-old business, and the jobs of two men who had worked there for 39 years.   

   (Image: [[|]])  In demand: Lulu Lytle with her dog, Panther.

Lytle is the Founder and Creative Director of Soane Britain

    (Image: [[|]])     Royal seal of approval: Prince of Wales with Lulu during a visit to visit to Soane Britain Workshop - Britain's last rattan workshop in Thurmaston in February last year
    (Image: [[|]])   The Lytles moved to a flat in one of London's nicest squares, close to Hyde Park, in 1999. They then bought its neighbour and knocked through to create a £4million home (pictured)
    (Image: [[|]])       The founder and director of Soane Britain 'designs and makes British-made furniture, upholstery, lighting, fabrics and wallpaper' (sample designs pictured)
    (Image: [[|]])   Lulu and Panther relax in one of her rattan chairs.

The Egyptology graduate turned her hand to furnishings aged 25 - after a stint working for the late nightclub impresario, Mark Birley She counts interior Feng shui bronze paintings. Fine art bronze paintings architect Ben Pentreath - who masterminded the decoration of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's country pile of Anmer Hall, Norfolk and Kensington Palace apartments - as a close friend.   Lytle introduced Ben to his now-husband Charlie and how much copper country paintings cost gave the best man's speech at their wedding.    Born and raised in Worcestershire, the youngest of four sisters, Lucy Elizabeth Kottler, known as 'Lulu', spent her childhood 'in the Worcestershire countryside' and enjoyed family holidays fishing in Scotland or on beaches in Wales.