Whisper it… has Farrow & Ball finally jumped the Dead Salmon?
The only way is Downpipe: Farrow & Ball been sold to Danish company Hempel for £500 million Everyone knows the name Farrow & Ball. It’s up there with heritage brands like Barbour and Aga, with a similar reputation for being expensive, classy and quintessentially British. Now the poshest paint in the UK has been sold to Danish company Hempel for £500 million – an event that has been heralded as evidence that working from home during the pandemic has fuelled an interior design explosion, and the end of an era when Farrow & Ball was the paint that proved you had made it. Is this the tipp...