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Inspiration: Edwardian Bloomsbury & Beidermeier
Visitors often ask where I (and they might) get inspiration for rooms or décor moments. The question arises because too often when searching for decor ideas homeowners simply look at decorating magazines. The problem is compounded in that if you … Continue reading
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Garden helpers – Light Sussex style.
I’ve just realised that the new post sitting ready to go is another on the subject of painting – as that makes three (almost) in a row I thought you all deserved a rest – from my all too frequent … Continue reading
The hole in the hedge
We have this week had the hedge cut. This is a landmark moment. It’s the first time we’ve handed this task over to the professionals – it is as if our little hedge has finally matured into something that a … Continue reading
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Pursuing John Douglas Perrett.
The Perrett is certainly large (see Considering John Douglas Perrett). Propped up on an easel it dominates one side of Dunbar Sloane’s auction rooms. It’s early in the viewing and there aren’t many people in the room and so I … Continue reading
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Considering John Douglas Perrett
I have, for a while now, wanted to buy a large scale Victorian/Edwardian painting. Something vast. The problem of course is that they’re few and far between. Anything good has long been snapped up by the public art galleries and indifferent … Continue reading
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How to hang a European painting in a post-colonial world.
When designing our library I was looking to create a formal arrangement of Nineteenth century paintings, largely portraits, and this meant that I kept coming back to the idea of a picture rail. Not a piece of wooden beading positioned … Continue reading
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Moroccan Style after YSL
How does one do a Moorish-Moroccan interior after YSL? I ask the question as I am in the early design stages of a small bathroom and searching for a theme, or rather a style. The theme of the last bathroom … Continue reading
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China Verses Made in China.
This is the reason nobody wants these plates any more. It’s called washing up. Once upon a time people used to stand round after a meal and washing up proved the perfect time to conduct a lot of family … Continue reading
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Orientalising-up
The other day I set my mind to thinking about a new lamp. My old standard lamp – a nanna-style turned wooden number painted green – had been dislodged in the reorganisation of my study, pending the arrival of the … Continue reading
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Dahlias – an Impressionist view
I was never a great fan of the dahlia. Breeders have bred them in strange day-glow colours and given them embarrassing names – like Princess of Hearts, Bottom’s Up and Kiss Me Quick – and thus ruined them. To add … Continue reading
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