How Jilly Cooper's 'Rivals' has unleashed 80s chic in home interiors 

Sumtuous sets and sultry scenes get viewers' pulses racing in the small-screen adaptation of the Jilly Cooper novel

DFS has the stately home meets gentleman’s club look with a velvet chesterfield-style sofa; €1,299, DFS.

Open up your louvred doors and welcome back the 80s in all its over-the-top glory as we finish out the year with the Hulu/Disney+ Rivals series.

Immersing ourselves in the decade that brought us the vol au vent, shoulder pads, hair gel and consumer excess, we will have to wait for the second season to drop to resolve the cliffhanger ending (rumours abound of filming starting in March 2025), but in the meantime, we can get the interiors look which is now fashionably vintage.