The interior designer Rita Konig is seated on a vintage sofa in the kitchen-dining room of her smartly refurbished west London home. Swathed in a floral chintz of her own design, the sofa shows off the designer’s debut fabric and wallpaper collection created with Schumacher. Konig’s rose chintz print echoes a wider return of big, bold and unapologetically romantic flower patterns in homes. “We’re going back to florals,” she says. Call it nostalgia, or a hankering for an ever more…

