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1 3 Decorator's notebook and Swatch
What's new in furniture, fabrics, wallpaper,
paint and decorative accessories
22 Shopping - pendant lights
Viola Lanari gets in the swing of things with
a selection of smart lights and lanterns
27 Design ideas - garden structure
Whether in a rambling country estate or
a small urban plot, fences, gates and
paths add style and substance to any
garden, as Jessica Doyle has discovered
33 Rita notes Continuing her series offering
interior-design advice, Rita Konig provides
guidance on choosing upholstery fabrics
98 The knowledge Inspired by the houses
in this issue, Bonnie Robinson gives
directions on how to achieve a similar style
100 Colour me modern Ruth Sleightholme
combines bold patterns with coloured
glass and iridescent pieces to create
contemporary schemes
138 Stockists
152 TastemakerThedosanddon'tsof
decorating according to Suzy Hoodless
43 Outside interests Clare Foster suggests
planting ideas for ponds and streams, and
highlights garden accessories and events
1 10 Rich tapestry With a light touch, Eugenia
and Martin Ephson have ensured the
tranquil gardens at Poulton House in
Wiltshire are flourishing. By Paula McWaters
116 Taking the long route The garden
designer Chris Moss has made a virtue
of the length of his narrow garden in
south London. By Annie Gatti
1 18 Living memories Continuing her series,
Clare Foster visits garden designer
Sarah Price at her family house in Wales
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70 Family foundations Making use of antiques
and pretty fabrics, interior designer
Amanda Hornby has sympathetically
updated this Cotswolds former dovecote,
transformed into a house by her husband's
great-grandmother. By Elfreda Pownall
78 White and shade After years spent
looking for a European holiday home,
the Lumb family fell in love with a
neglected Fifties house on Ibiza on
their very first visit and set about
transforming it into the elegantly cool
house it is today. By Gabby Deeming
84 Something bold, something new Thanks to
the innovative approach taken by designer
Anthony Collett and the enthusiasm
of the owners, this nineteenth-century
London flat is now an exciting space full of
colour and texture. By Nicole Swengley
90 Material gains Interior architect Paula
Barnes has extended this nineteenth-
century London rectory and made
creative use of reclaimed materials and
antique-fair finds to create a comfortable
family house. By Judith Wilson >
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10 From the editor
35 News A look at an exhibition celebrating decorative plasterwork
in British interiors, and a round-up of other news and events
46 Out and about Latest launches... glamorous events...
hot buys... Carole Annett takes note
53 People - lifestyle She has homes in London, Switzerland and
Sydney, but for Lizzie Spender - the wife of Barry Humphries, aka
Dame Edna Everage - the fulfilment of a childhood equestrian
dream has as much appeal as city living. By Susan Crewe
58 People - designer Judith Wilson talks to London-based designer
Tara Craig about her use of colour and texture in a Paris apartment
61 Insight Celina Fox explores Joseph Cornell's magical shadow-box
worlds, and reviews other current exhibitions
65 Buying art Emily Tobin discusses the work of two artists who
make richly textured and coloured images using linocut printing
67 Books Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest; American interiors
created by Barbara Westbrook; the design studios of Africa; and an
examination of botanical illustrations throughout history
68 Subscriptions How to subscribe to House & Garden
in the UK and in the US
106 Rising from the ashes It hasn't been long since the elaborate
chimneypieces of England's grander houses were ripped out.
But now they are back in fashion, thanks to their craftsmanship
and intriguing provenance, as David Nicholls discovers
130 Travel Experiencing the magnificent isolation of the Maasai
Mara; five reasons to visit Amsterdam; and finding Neverland in
Eilean Shona, where the screenplay for Peter Pan was written
WINE & FOOD
122 Taste notes News, reviews and tips for cooks and wine lovers.
By Joanna Simon
124 Herb play Blanche Vaughan creates flavourful dishes
that make imaginative use of summer herbs
129 Simple suppers Delicious recipes; no hassle - lentil, goats'
cheese, fennel and avocado salad, followed by iced tiramisu,
plus ideas for serving summer plums □
CONTRIBUTORS
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Q^What is it about Kenya that keeps you going back?
‘Kenya’s troubled in so many ways, but it remains one
of the most ravishingly beautiful countries on earth.
Nowhere can match the concentration of wildlife
and with such a backdrop as the Maasai Mara: roll-
ing savannah, lonely acacia and sharp river bends.’
From her base in West Dorset in an old farmhouse with
'a bit of a gypsy mix', Sophy Roberts flies out to destina-
tions around the world to write for a wealth of travel
publications. For House & Garden, she's travelled on
foot through the Vikos Gorge in Greece, discovered the
coves of Belle-Ne-en-Mer in France and, this month, she
takes to the Maasai Mara in Kenya with her sons to
experience magnificent isolation on safari (page 130).
TOBY SCOTT Photographer
Q^Describe your London home.
‘Chiswick-Shepherds Bush
borders is how estate agents
describe it, but I call it Acton. It’s
vintage French industrial with
limed-grey wooden floors meet-
ing chalkboard walls, a hint of
Morocco and an ever-increasing
amount of baby paraphernalia.’
For his tenth birthday, Toby
Scott was given a second-hand
Kodak Brownie 127 camera and
he hasn't stopped taking pictures
since. Armed with a degree in
photography, he landed a job
assisting a food and drink pho-
tographer. He finds he works best when he's 'really hungry', a strategy
he has used while shooting covers for the likes of Delicious magazine
and this month's food feature, 'Herb play', from page 124.
QWhat has been your most memorable moment while working on
a project? ‘Travelling to a site meeting in a private jet rather than my
usual mode of transport: a scooter.’
It was during her first job at Joyce boutique in Hong Kong that Amanda
Hornby had her 'aha' moment. She then moved back to the UK to work
as an interior stylist and landed a job working for her cousin, the interior
designer Emily Todhunter, assisting on a restaurant project in Knights-
bridge. When decorating her own house, which had been in her husband's
family for 60 years, the biggest challenge was to inject modern sensi-
bilities into the Cotswold former dovecote 'without it looking as though
the builders had just left'. See the results from page 70 □
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EDITOR’S LETTER
People’s immediate response when I tell them that I work at House 8c
Garden — I’ve been here for nearly nine years — is that it must be fun to be
able to ‘nosy around’ people’s houses. Yes, of eourse it is. I’m always keen
to see what people have done, whether it is simple and understated or
daring and bold. In this issue, I have been lueky enough to step inside two
of the interiors we feature and they are very different. If I was to ehoose
where I’d want to live, I have to admit I ean imagine myself in Lisa
Guliek’s wonderfully airy kitehen, shown from page 90, more than in
the super-smart flat by Anthony Collett, shown from page 84. In faet. I’d
give my eye teeth to have Lisa’s kitehen and be able to sit so many at our
kitehen table. But Anthony’s design is striking and impressive. I mar-
velled at the detail when he walked me round the flat — the mind boggles
at the number of drawings he and his team must have done to bring his
ideas to fruition and to aehieve the precision of this very bespoke interior.
But, for me, the pleasure of working at House 8c Garden derives from more than just indulging in beautiful
things. Over the years, it has been a huge privilege to gain glimpses into the worlds of so many specialists in
their fields — be it a silk mill in Suffolk or a cutting-edge furniture designer — and the knowledge, skill and talent
that lies behind what they do. For example, I was riveted when Paul Chesney took me round the Chesney’s
warehouse and talked me through the huge number of antique chimneypieces he houses there. As he told the
story of what they were, where he had found them and why they were special, it was as if each one was a friend.
Paul can date a chimneypiece — sometimes to the decade — just by looking at it. He is entirely self-taught; experi-
ence and a natural instinct have honed his eye over the years. From page 1 06, our features director David Nicholls
talks to both Paul Chesney and Will Fisher of Jamb — also known for his eye for the beautiful and the rare — about
an increase in demand for antique chimneypieces, often remarkably grand and with important provenances.
Hopefully, though, we won’t have cause to light a hre this month. I’d like to find myself eating Vegetables a
la grecque with egg and herb sauce, as featured in ‘Herb play’ (pages 1 24 to 1 28), served— as the writer Blanche
Vaughan suggests — on a large plate from which everybody can help themselves. And it would be wonderful if
we were sitting in a garden as dreamy as Eugenia and Martin Ephson’s (pages 1 1 0 to 115), when we eat □
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£220 for four, from Ninka. 2 Natural and ebonised
oak table, 'Maker's Trestle', by Lola Lely and
Benchmark, from £6,400 for 90 x 180 x 75cm,
from The New Craftsmen. 3 Porcelain tea set,
'Shift', $1,600 for 11 pieces including four brass
spoons, from Apparatus Studio >
INSIDER I DECORATOR’S NOTEBOOK
1 Wool/silk rugs, 'Argali' (detail shown, from top:
971 and 651), by Hella Jongerius, from £2,335
for 240 X 180cnn, from Danskina. 2 Brass and
glass lantern, 'Cirque' (Spanish red), by Michael
Amato, 67 x 40.5cm diameter, $2,005, from The
Urban Electric Co. 3 Wallpaper, 'Porto', by Kate
Blee, 114cm wide, £90 a metre, from Christopher
Farr Cloth. 4 'Rolled Arm Sofa' with walnut feet,
by Ward Bennett for 1970, upholstered in 'Blocks'
(003), wool mix, by Scholten & Baijings for
Maharam, 63 x 213 x 83cm, £5,800 including
fabric, from Herman Miller. 5 Lacquered MDF and
linen side tables, from left: 'Tini IV' (new york
blue), 20 X 16cm square, £360; and 'Tiny IT (peale
green), 20 x 18 x 8cm, £320; both by Oomph,
from Nina Campbell >
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2 Cotton/linen napkins, 'Boulder' (cools), 44cm
square, £20 each, from Dinosaur Designs.
3 Brass, steel, plywood and Corian side table,
'Sculpture', by Rooms, 60 x 57 x 37cm, €3,630,
from Spazio Rossana Orlandi. 4 Cotton
velvet sofa with beech legs, 'Pudding' (burnt
orange), 83 x 210 x 111cm, £1,745, from Loaf.
5 Gouache- and ink-painted parchment lamp-
shades, from left: 'Exotic Fruit', 35cm diameter,
$300; 'Henri', 11cm diameter, $60; 'Avignon',
30cm diameter, $250; and 'Berries of Bloom',
20cm diameter, $150; all from Wayne Pate. For
suppliers' details, see Stockists page □
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Frame 'Le Temps Du Reve', linen, £153.60, from Pierre Frey. Shield 'Diamond' (creamsicle), by Clare Frost, cotton/linen, £127.20, from
Studio Four NYC. Head 'African Masque', by Clarence House, linen, £255.60, from Turnell & Gigon. Chest 'Bamako' (noir/ecru), by
Georges Le Manach, cotton mix, £234, from Claremont. Arms 'Java' (eggplant), linen, £154, from George Smith for Raoul Textiles.
Legs 'Tasmania' (ebene), linen mix, £225.60, from Pierre Frey. Feet 'Ijoba' (orange), cotton, £79, from Eva Sonaike. Background
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Ralph Lauren Home. Head 'African Masque', by Clarence House, linen, £255.60, from Turnell & Gigon. Chest 'Theodore' (evergreen), by
Martyn Lawrence Bullard, linen, £212, from Tissus d'Helene. Arms 'Kabba Kabba' (yellow with dots), by Martyn Lawrence Bullard, linen,
£206, from Tissus d'Helene. Belt 'Printemps Brush Fringe' (oro), acrylic, £45, from Samuel & Sons. Legs 'Akuna' (blue/green), by Rapture
& Wright, linen, £104, from Redloh House Fabrics. Feet 'Sabu' (vert), linen, £140, from Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam. Background
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Viola Lanari gets in the swing of things with
a selection of pendant lights and lanterns
1 Lacquered aluminium 'Mhy' (light green), by Muuto, 24.5 x
20.3cm diameter, £129, from Twentytwentyone. 2 Hand-
made glass '8.2' (purple), 9 x 10.5cm diameter, €45, from
Emery & Cie. 3 Mouth-blown glass and stainless steel '28
Series' (clear and emerald), by Bocci, 16.5cm diameter, £320,
from Viaduct. 4 Converted glass chemistry 'Mini Funnei'
(green flex), 22 x 12cm diameter, £42, from Retrouvius.com.
5 Mouth-blown glass 'Dome Giobe' (ruby transparent and
rosa opaque), 28.5 x 15.5cm diameter, £492; 6 Mouth-blown
glass 'Striai Giobe' (citron transparent and lichen opaque),
24.5 X 14.5cm diameter, £468; both from Curiousa &
Curiousa. 7 Glass 'Vanadin', 23 x 18cm diameter, £17, from
Ikea. 8 Rattan and polished brass 'Rise and Faii' (shell
pink), 23 x 46cm diameter, £3,750, from Soane. 9 Chrome-
lacquered aluminium 'Caiabash', by Lightyears, 30.5 x 22.4cm
diameter, £189, from Skandium. 10 'Copper-Rimmed Giass
Pendant', 38 x 17cm diameter, £78, from Luma. 11 Mouth-
blown glass, metal, wood and gold leaf 'Ciiindro Large', 65
X 18cm diameter, £1,242, from Michael Ruh Studio. 12 Blown
opal glass, steel and brushed brass 'iC S2', by Flos, 72 x
30cm diameter, £370, from Places and Spaces >
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bronze finish 'Hanging Lotus', 15 x 30cm diameter, £800, from Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam. 5 Oak 'Swill Lights', by Lorna Singleton and
Sebastian Cox, 12 x 9cm shade diameter, £195 for three, from The New Craftsmen. 6 Hand-cut brass 'Corolle' (golden brass), 16cm diameter, €75, from
Emery & Cie. Background Latex sheets (previous spread from left: baby pink, translucent natural, royal blue and translucent olive; this page from left:
electric blue, translucent blue and translucent pink), from £5.35 a square metre, from Radical Rubber. For suppliers' details, see Stockists paged
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POLES IN ONE
A niiriliTiEtll}il lh lKe; ih^rHxi
p]acc to make a modern statement.
The meandering stiiinlcss-stccl: design
ill ll]t$ u|RLittr Nrw York i^anleiik
by Reed ] IHderbrand, is as much
a piece of garden Rculpnjrc as a fence.
Similar [jiie^meiji'-higli s-Uiihless^
sled rods cost £WJ^ each from
nietais4iJ.co.uk. radhildtrbmmlxt^m >
Garden structure
Whether in a rambling country’' estate or a small urban plot, fences, gates and
paths add style and substance to any garden, as JESSICA DO^l.E has discovered
HOUSEJtNeCADDEN.CO.UIl ^Ult^ST ?0I3 27
COLOUR
Garden designer
George Ciiner gives; us
his rTreinimrnd:itions
for painted fcTicesr
^Cn/n fifl) ^
Farrffit^ & FaU is
£itio^r fif mldoitrs as ii
diffsn 'ijighi with gTwn
pknth^g. / Sind so
shadfs FUfh <ij ^Frmfh
Cmy, fy /wrr<Ji4- &
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THEBRIDGE
V\1di iLsdiiLti^tid fret^Tork
and decoralive Uniats,
die bridge VVcM^lbrdiiig
Ifouse in Sus^x Ls a
rlassti: esainplror CliiEn^se
GinjPf KmfbiSe S (yte. GcinEaf:!
51 ]rH:al joiner to rrereatc
a ihm' lik*’ thinv and [ry
Farmw ^ Balt^ ''lalbw’
for a simitar cflbiir, £5S
for 2.5 litres of t;jctcrior
cggjhell.jfcrfipu^- balUm
Not jusi about esiabllshing boutidaries, fences also set the
tone, introducing bold geonietrv' and decorative details
on the FENCE
>•
MOCK 1 UDUK
To coitiphinenc ihk
Hixteenlh-tTnlnry' limbtir*
IramiEixi dcNnse in Snfn.»Lk,
George f.’arter used 4
simple Ibdor-stylc ferirer
Something similar by
George in green oak
wouJd cost around £530
a metre. To mimic ihc
silvery odour of aged
oakn George rcuonimctids
^Slbtce Grey' classic wocid
pratecdosij £20. IG
a litfEs from llawlins.
grtatieii^tttsjnet.eii.tik \
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^[leii hEiri^cNiia.! Nlat£ kxik
shaE^ in ihin 1 /Tendon
gardEin iiy the tlcHigrtEtr
Chris M tiss (whose (jw-ri
garden h leaiursxi in
Ehis issue), l^he Garden
Trellis Company sells
ready'-made slatted
panck in pine, cedar and
iroko. A 1 79'.5 x 45cm
fMuie] costs from £2 ] .94
and madc"to-incasurc
panek are atso a^^ailabie.
chmnmsgardfKs.ee^t \
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]>l SrG J l\n sS IGARDRN STRUCTURE
A
EEI- K PkAC TICE
If you arc using a fence within ^■our garden to cf c^itc
divmoiis, coiiEiid-er adding a -^vindovv lo a of
wjiai; lies Here a 'v-icH'ing jKiirn’ has been Icrft in
the middle of diis white-oak screen, Prainiiig a nree on the
odkCr ijick:. To Create a siEniiar fence, hon/jontaJ s^Lat^
ij\' valuing wdlhs, leaving small gnjiii fwlwt^en ibem to lei
the light and the view through.
A
SPORTS DAV
Tilt- fence in ihk garden,
fmcniiit: 201 1 Chclsc-a
Elcjwer Show; wax
Tfuufe I niin TTc iaimrd
gymnariom floorboarcfc.
Garden ^tcJ^igTserJamie
IhinHian left the maricings
on them , creating an
indKidual Eoolt with
the variety of wood
colours and finishes.
Eind reclaimed
floorboards at McECay
Elotiringj from £ 12 G.' 1 -b a
metre. jiafflifrfunjiafl.fAJiA’
mckayfloontig.co.iik >
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DKS IDKAS GARDEN STRUCTURE
MAKE A MOSAIC
A of dldUYiuEiil'
nu»sfdc ult'ji
a rryLifcjrrn layenul
Blit ca.lm, OrtltiFfy
kx^] [if an lEaJianalc
Rj^ntiiHfianE.^; jiF;-iTT.ltrn tty
thi^ hcmsc ofT the busy
R»rtE>hdlo Ktwd in
west Fjondcin,
tites came from naDiDi
interiorfh which imports
mosaic designs from
Morocco^ froTin £90
a square aiicire.
As well as providing a
route from A to B, a path
can define the shape of
a garden and add to its
character, through the
clever selection of
materials arul colours
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PALE AND INTERESTING
In ihig formal Ijondon ^^ardcn by del Bnono
GaKcrwitZi the pnlc York-storc path lets (he
pUmliiji stiiiEE'. StOEie Yurk-f;[otie
frE 3 m £90 a square metre, ortry Mandarin
Stone’s limcsLoiic. at around £31 a square
jilelTE;. ioTii^tiTiiioTi^.Cti.iik \
paths OF
GLORY
A
TIMBER YARD
This garden was designed by Tom Scuart-
Smith, who used Elt’E .kirijf to rrlrrciit^c ihq pilic
boarcfvi'atb d’ the nearb)' Norfolk beaches. The
gcoineinc nature of ihc planks contrasts with
iHe: curv'aE.eoug ptanliTig airangirmEiEitg, while
iheir^i'crucal pJacemert appears to elongate the
gajrdcii - pardcularly usefuJ in smaUcr spaces,
lb prevent it drdlx^r|Midi bx^Eimiiig slippery use
a product such as Cnpnnol Anti-Slip Decking
Statiis £27.99 for 2.5 litres^ from Wlekes.
iomsiuarismith.fa.Etk \ wiekgs.ea.iik
Grill'll Ji^ k^ep
j'l in ekeekf use
is aehiePfa neai finish
billi e4!fi a p^ih
s htd or f^vn. l iAis
Ffcif Countrjf garden
Ataynaifi has tised
ir/t^larly si^ siai*
skth, it'hkh^tm
extraiis^af itrxiuif
to the tparg. SimiltiT
ihlt-fjfazf rdginpf ^
Bradsli^Rt east'; /"Id
a mttfgjj'arn BS^Q^
Ff&z^oi wilfow
adds a dtearafizg ej^g
to ioiu-itzz! pfiiniing
Frimmeua^d
sonrfg^fi^ /~i i .99
fir 2 .-f meitrs.
tiiy.c:m \ primmu.at.idi
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]> SrfiN EIJKAS iGARDRN STRUCTURE
A UORKM AN^S
rOOLS
]n his Hew liEKik^
Gard^ AJii^'i:{Dtmblc-
BcsEiks, jC 2.^K
(jCDT^RC Carter explains
U<yw to turn ^^veryfittv
ilcm^ into decorative
elements, such as this
gate in his own ?^orfolk
garden, nvadc from old
tools set into si timber
frame and pfiinted btack.
A similar design made
by GeoK^ would eosl
fbom around 20 .
1-UI.LMOON
The moon gate is an elcmenL of tradidonal
CliliifNC gTirdcE] liujlorEEally tl E'Lnrijhtr
opening set within a garden wall. This
cxajnplet in a garden in Suffolk, has been set
Into a heeEih fiedg*' acid giv'eii an Engtifili
country twist vdth a lloral motif in wTotight
iron. ] t has a triple fLincdoii^ acting as a gate, an
axl.Miiir and a dcr^.-kjc Ibr Iramiiiga vi™- W Stay
& Son blacksmiths is a good source Ibr inctal
gates; a jsair of bespoke gates in litis style
widiihl cciffitfiijm arEiuEidjfItiOO. ujstqyandjon.^^m
ORIGHT WHITE
A classic white pickel-
fcEicc gate is a smart
choke fora front garden.
Here, dke horl/jontai bar
of the gate i3 pcrfecsly^
aligned wilh that of the
frrtiee, thE! Ik^Lom of
whkh ugually the First
part to get grubby^ - is
CEmrealed uihEkritralJi
a neat, low^ hedge.
gate EXPECTATIONS
Used at the entrance to a garden, a f^atc doses off the
space, but used \dthin, it creates a sense of' expectation
CrUESSIXG GATE
Make a poinl widi a djco(»raiive gate tllal has
accuse Cliche unexpected, I’his one, dcsigntxl
and buiU by F^bcl and Julian Eannerman
for a Rcniiissance rcvis-al-styk- houiie at ilicr
ChitiwciSd^i hiiik in the 'iwcnlies, looks from
a distance as though it is made of stoncj. but it
is in fart green oak. bafiTurmuTtdfiign.Ciim D
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RITA’S
PICKS
Two wonderful
mohairs, from top:
‘Ash’, /^252 a metre,
from Bruno Triplet;
and ‘Greville’
(in drab and brulee),
;{(2 18.40 a metre,
from Adam Bray.
brunotriplet.com
redlohhousefabrics. com
PATTERN
Raoul Textiles is
ideal for a pattern
splurge. A partieular
favourite of mine is
‘Nigel’ linen, shown
here in tobaeeo,
/(180 a metre, from
George Smith.
georgesmith.co.uk
CORDUROY
‘Palinuro’, eorduroy/
velvet, by Etro, eomes
in fantastie eolours.
Pietured from top
are turehese,
salvia and eerallo,
/(82. 80 a metre,
from Pierre Erey.
pierrefrey.com
DESIGN IDEAS I ON DECORATING
RITA NOTES
Continuing her series, Rita Konig offers advice on choosing fabrics for upholstery
Rita explores the abundant
selection of fabrics at
Howe, in south west London
T he rooms I am always the most envious
of are those in whieh none of the
fabrie matehes but everything works
together, like a room full of good friends
rather than a board meeting of nieely
eoordinating upholstery.
Similar to one’s address book, this look is best evolved
gently over time, with something inherited, something
found and another thing made. Obviously, a room is not
made up of the soft furnishings alone, but they ean feel
important - espeeially when you are at the early design
stages and agonising over fabries.
I hnd that a good rule of thumb
is to mix weights, patterns and
materials. When I interviewed the
designer Peter Dunham about his
sitting room in Eos Angeles, he said
he loved rush ehairs, as too mueh upholstery has a rather
‘pudding’ effeet. It was sueh a brilliant analogy and
something I have kept in mind. Old leather ehairs do a
similar job to rush. Riehard Steenberg (steenberg.eo.uk)
is a great souree for vintage English-gentleman-
style leather ehairs and Alexander von Westenholz
(avwantiques.eo.uk) is never without a perfeet ehair.
If you are looking to upholster in leather, Altfield
(altfield.eom) has wonderful eolours, as do Adam Bray
(adambrayinfo) and Christopher Howe (howelondon.
eom). Both of the latter also do lambswools and though
there is a rush on white woolly ehairs at the moment, I
would eneourage you to try a smart unbleaehed brown.
While we’re on the subjeet of natural upholstery,
horsehair from John Boyd Textiles (johnboydtextiles.
eo.uk) is a good alternative. It is expensive, but extremely
durable - as is mohair. I was amazed to return to a
house I deeorated eight years ago to find a pair of apple-
green mohair ehairs looking just as they did when we
installed them. While everything around them needed
updating in a house full of ehildren and dogs, these had
stood up to the onslaught. Mohair also takes eolour
well, whieh is a large part of its appeal.
Eor a good, inexpensive plain, you ean’t beat ‘Manzoni’
eotton/linen by Designers Guild
(designersguild.eom), whieh eomes
in 76 eolours and eosts /j35 a metre.
However, I think a sofa benefits
greatly from a pattern; it is the
ultimate pudding and a large print
ean give it a lighter presenee. This eould be from Josef
Erank (svenskttenn.se) or Allegra Hieks (allegrahieks.
eom), and I have had great sueeess with the geometrie
‘Ziggurat’ by China Seas (tissusdhelene.eo.uk).
Eor the odd ehair, I find a pretty print is irresistible.
Just as the eloakroom is a good plaee to use an outra-
geous wallpaper, a small ehair is perfeet for a print, and
Deeors Barbares by Nathalie Earman-Earma, stoeked
at Tissus d’Helene, is one of my go-tos. When my own
ehair eame baek eovered in her ‘Casse-noisette’ (0060),
I did wonder whether it was a bit loud, but with a plain
linen eushion tueked in the baek, it has settled into the
room terrifieally and I love it □
Too much upholstery
can have a rather
‘pudding’ effect
HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.uk august 2015 33
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BEDS, SOFAS & FURNITURE FOR LOAFERS
©THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM
the Foundling Museum
also introduces contemporary work by Geoffrey
Preston, a specialist in decorative plasterwork,
who is well known for leading the team that
restored the ceilings of the National Trust’s
Uppark House after a fire in 1989. Design
drawings, models and photographs from
some of Geoffrey’s principal commissions, as
well as new, large-scale work, will be on display,
along with some of the artist’s own tools and
materials. Until September 6; admission,
^1 foundlingmuseum.org.uk David Nicholls >
Stucco
IN THE PAST
T he Foundling Museum, whieh tells the
story of the mid-eighteenth-eentury
Foundling Hospital, Britain’s first home
for abandoned ehildren, is eurrently staging
an exhibition celebrating traditional decora-
tive plasterwork in British interiors. Lines of
Beauty is set in the London museum’s reerea-
tion of the hospital’s Court Room, luxuriantly
deeorated with Rocoeo-style plaster mould-
ings from the original building, whieh was
demolished in the Twenties. The exhibition
HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.uk august 2015 35
NEWS I UPDATE
Anatomy of a room
COTTON
HOUSE HOTEL
Barcelona
The interior of this recently opened hotel, set
within the nineteenth-century headquarters
of a Catalan textiles company (hence its
name), was designed by Lazaro Rosa-Violan.
Although grand in scale and blessed with beauti-
fully restored features, it is a comprehensive
lesson in the mix-and-match approach that
can be applied to more modest settings. The
furnishings are diverse, but the result cohesive.
A modern, organically shaped fabric ceiling
light hangs above a Forties mahogany pedestal
table. Peacock-blue armchairs sit with geometric
brass and smoked-glass coffee tables. A modern
abstract artwork by Jose Guerrero hangs above
the ebony chimneypiece, which is a replica of
the original one; the formal geometric patterns
of the parquet floor are teamed with the looser
patterns of the Indian flatweave rugs.
While maintaining a sense of airiness, the
high-ceilinged room has large-scale artworks
on the walls and built-in library shelving. And
a nice touch is the two landscape paintings at
the top, picked out by well-placed lighting that
draws the eye towards the arabesque detailing
on the ceiling. Rooms start at €200 a night.
hotelcottonhouse.com | lazarorosaviolan.com DN
ARTISAN DESIGN
GOES NATIVE
Those who follow the less-is-more mantra of
Japanese and Scandinavian design won't be short
of goods to buy at Native & Co in Notting Hill.
Owners Chris Yoshiro Green, who is British-
Japanese, and Sharon Jo-Yun Hung, who is
Taiwanese, source beautiful artisan homeware and
accessories from their home countries and the
Nordic nations. The couple have created a shop
interior that reflects the pieces they sell, with pretty
oak tables and benches at each corner. Pictured
right, clockwise from top, are 'Tall Bamboo Storage
Jar with Lid', £16, 'Fish Knife', £35, Japanese Maple
Soup Bowl', £36, and Japanese Enamelled Pasta
Pot', £]25. nativeandco.com Arta Ghanbari >
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WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
It's said a picture is worth a thousand
words, so an artist-made paper cut of
your favourite building speaks volumes.
New York- and Edinburgh-based artist Boo
Paterson has captured buildings from
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow
School of Art to New York tenements,
pictured left. She can now be commissioned
to make paper cuts or paper sculptures of
homes or other significant places, from
£350. [email protected] AG
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38 HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.uk AUGUST 2015
This Danish-Italian design
team, formed by arehiteets
Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi
in 2006, is much loved for the
way it adds personality to its
pared-down designs for brands
such as Eigne Roset, Swedese
and Cappellini. Particularly
appealing are its distinctly
Scandinavian sense of sim-
plicity and functionality, and
its modern approach to craft
processes, both of which can
be seen in its latest designs.
The Allegory’ desk (from
/(1, 8 17), pictured top right,
and the ‘Targa’ armchair
and sofa (from ^2,490), both
pictured below, were made
for Gebriider Thonet Vienna
(gebruederthonetvienna.com),
using steam-bent beech and
cane fretwork. Similarly,
GamFratesi has helped bring
twenty-first-century relevance
to the historic Swedish
metalware brand Skultuna
(skultuna.com), with its range
of ‘Kami’ trays, pictured
centre right, which combine
brass with inlaid leather (from
€96). gamfratesi.com DN
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FIGURE IT OUT
Laura Ford at Strawberry Hill is an exhibition of
the British sculptor’s cryptic figures, portraying
animals dressed as humans, throughout the
grounds and interiors of Horace Walpole’s mag-
nificent Gothic Revival castle. Spot Adam and
Eve reconfigured as cats in a series of bronze
sculptures silhouetted against the white facade of
the building (above), a mouse by the staircase and an
elephant in the drawing room. Until November 6;
admission, ^10.80. strawberryhillhouse.org.uk ag
PIECES OF INTEREST
If you're looking for a unique piece and have
anything between £10 and £50,000 burning
a hole in your pocket, head to Antiques for
Everyone at the NEC in Birmingham on July
23-26. More than 250 dealers will bring
a rich selection of everything from folk art
to mid-century modern designs and fine furniture. You’ll find Carlo
BugattI stools c.1902, like the one pictured above, on the stand of
Shropshire-based Callaghan Fine Paintings & Contemporary Bronze
(callaghan-finepalntlngs.com). ant/guesforeveryone.co.uk DN >
TUALA HJARNOE:ALESSIO
Jh^ solid granite and delicate cnrvea of oyr Provence table for two set
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MAKERS
Seven months after each
received a £7,500 award
from the Jerwood
Charitable Foundation,
five artists and designer-
makers will reveal new
bodies of work during the
fifth annualJerwood
Makers Open from July
10 to August 30. This
year's celebration of
contemporary applied
arts features pieces by
Zachary Eastwood-Bloom,
Malene Hartman
Rasmussen, Jasleen Kaur,
Silo Studio and Ian
McIntyre. The latter has
used reclaimed machinery
from Stoke-on-Trent to
transform a ton of clay
into stoneware tableware
designs, which will be
stacked into high columns
and also framed on the
wallsof the Jerwood
Space. A work-in-progress
picture can be seen above.
jerwoodvisualarts.org DN
SUSAN
DELISS
Full of textiles old and new, Susan Deliss's Netting Hill
showroom is an explosion of kaleidoscopic colour
and pattern, from ikats and embroideries to kilims,
velvets and linens. She travels the globe, cramming
her suitcase with pieces from Egypt, Syria, Turkey,
Jordan, Morocco, India and Uzbekistan. Limited-
edition cushions, handmade lampshades, decorative
objects and fine art complement her fabric collection.
How did it all begin? My mother loved quality fab-
rics and, even as a small child, I took a great interest
in patterns and textures. I had a red flared trouser
suit from Liberty and a fur pinafore, which felt like
the height of chic in the early Seventies.
What inspired you? Formative influences were the
Scottish Colourists and Venetian painters like Bellini
and Veronese - an unlikely combination, but colour,
pattern and texture featured in the work of both.
Why has there been a resurgence in pattern?
Because things are so dull without it. Our DNA is a
pattern, and pattern is all around us in nature. It's
impossible to exclude on many levels. Pattern has
the power to stimulate the eye and increase the
visual sophistication and complexity of a room.
Any tips for integrating pattern? Don't overdo it
to begin with. Try smaller areas and build it up -
maybe a chair, then a sofa and some cushions. Living
with a pattern should be like having a conversation
with someone interesting. If it feels like nails on
a blackboard, it's not for you.
What's next? A trip to Romania, where there is a fan-
tastic tradition of hand embroidery; and selling some
of the beautiful stock I collected and created over
the winter months. susanc/e//ss.com Emily Tobin
what’s trending # SWING SEATS
It’s all about seats that swing. Or so it seemed from the Milan
Furniture Fair in April. Patricia Urquiola, Philippe Malouin and
Lee Broom were among the designers showing gravity-defying
seats. Pietured right is a reissue of Patricia’s 2013 design for Louis
Vuitton. Visit houseandgarden.co.uk/swingseats for more,
and tweet or Instagram your favourites using #swingseats. dn
WEBWATCH French design
With the celebration of Bastille Day on July 14, we shift our sights to French
websites. The fabric and furniture company Caravane (caravane.fr) has launched
a new online shop with a nifty navigation system to mark its twentieth anniver-
sary. Cachette (cachette.com) is run by an Anglo-French couple and specialises
in homeware products - from linen bedding to Marseille soap - by young designers
as well as heritage manufacturers. The collection of Merci-Merci's (merci-merci.
com) Paris emporium is at your fingertips thanks to a sleek site that throngs with
furniture, fashion and household products, including the Artek lights (€340 each)
and Tolix chairs (from €190 each), pictured left. Its philanthropic drive makes it
even more appealing: the company supports educational projects in Madagascar.
Founded by French sisters Karine and Elodie 10 years ago, Bodie and Fou's
award-winning online concept store (bodieandfou.com) comprises an achingly
stylish mix of furniture, lighting, home accessories and linens. Rose Dahlsen □
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FRANCIS AMIAND; JAKE CURTIS; PHILIP SINDEN
The combinaticn of our Chichester dnesser in Blakeney Blue, with our Harrogate table in Lil^ and chairs painted in Charcoal
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PHOTOGRAPH: © NATIONAL TRUST BODNANT. 'LINEN CROSS OVER APRON', £59, EROM TOAST
Outside interests
Clare Foster finds fresh gardening inspiration
OPEN ACCESS
The National Trust’s Bodnant Garden in North Wales
has been undergoing a restoration to open up more
than 1 0 aeres of previously inaceessible areas. The Far
End is part of an ongoing plan to open up all 80 aeres
of the original garden, and features a skating pond,
waterside walks and a notable arboretum. The Yew
Dell is home to many rhododendrons grown from seed,
eolleeted in Asia by the plant hunters George Forrest
and Frank Kingdon-Ward. Open daily, 1 0am— 5pm;
admission, /^10.50. nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden
APPLE OF OUR EYE
Earlier this year at the
Chelsea Flower Show,
the Association of
Sussex Trug Basket
Makers launched the
‘CHELSEA REVIVAL
TRUGb The unusual
design of this half-
bushel basket, which is
deeper and rounder
than other examples,
may be because it
was used in the past
for collecting fruit.
Measuring 34 x 52 x
37cm, it costs /^150 plus
p&p from The Trug
Store, thetrugstore.co.uk
Display a bunch of summer blooms in these sculptural
ceramic vases from Graham and Green. The 'Pleated'
vases come in shades of green, turquoise and palest
blue, from £15 plus p&p. The 'Cactus' vase, 29 x 18 x
16cm, costs £45 plus p&p. qrahamandqreen.co.uk >
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' CLOCKWISE FROM THIS
PICTURE Helenium 'Dunkle
Pracht' with Artemisia
iactifiora. H. 'Loysder Wieck'.
H. 'Waltraut'. H. 'Fata Morgana'
Planting ideas
LATE-SUMMER HELENIUMS
I tried heleniums in my previous garden, but was disappointed
beeause of the dry, flinty soil there. They survived, but you eould
tell they were never really happy, as they started visibly wilting
in a hot summer. I was perplexed. I had thought these and other
North Ameriean prairie plants, like eehinaeeas and rudbeekias,
would thrive in dry eonditions. Ed wrongly assumed aU Ameriean prairies
were dry. In faet, heleniums need moisture in bueketfuls, and now that IVe
moved to an area with mueh better, loamy soil, Em determined to give
them another go. Beloved by bees and butterflies, these late-summer
daisies bring drifts and mounds of eye-eatehing primary eolour to the gar-
den, flowering from the end of July into autumn and standing strong with
their blaek or brown seed heads throughout the winter. They’re easy to ht
into a planting seheme and team up well with a plethora of other grasses
and perennials, sueh as blue eryngiums or eehinops, spires of deep-purple
agastaehe or froths of mauve phlox. Clash erimsons, reds and oranges by
mixing orange and red heleniums with Crocosmia Tueifer’ or give them
a soft baekground with billows of Aruncus dioicus or Artemisia Iactifiora.
There are dozens of eultivars to ehoose from in shades of erimson.
orange and yellow, with some flowering early and some late. I prefer
the reds and oranges, as I already have rudbeekias to eover the yellow
speetrum. The two Em going to look out for are ‘Dunkle Praeht’ and
‘Waltraut’. ‘Dunkle Praeht’ is even darker than the weU-loved ‘Moerheim
Beauty’, with flowers that age to a browny red. Growing about a metre
tall, it has flattish flowers - again unlike ‘Moerheim Beauty’ - the petals
of whieh reflex downwards from the eone. ‘Waltraut’ has striking
eoppery orange flowers splashed with yellow. For something different,
try ‘Eoysder Wieek’, named after the Duteh word for windmill sails,
whieh has intriguing quilled petals in burnt orange.
Cultivation
Grow heleniums in an open, sunny position in rich, moisture-retentive
soil, adding plenty of compost before you plant them. Ensure that
new plants are well watered and, if the leaves start to wilt, revive them
with plenty of water. When the plants are well established, they can be
divided in early spring, just as they come into growth. Softwood cuttings
can also be taken from the new growth in April.
KEW THE MUSIC 7-12
A festival of summer concerts held in the lovely
setting of Kew Gardens, with performances
from Paloma Faith, Jools Holland and others.
Tickets from £44.50. kew.org
The Gardener’s Diary
FOODIES FESTIVAL 17-19
Enjoy delicious food and drinks in the
award-winning gardens of the historic
Tatton Park estate in Cheshire. Tickets
from £10. foodiesfestival.com
GQT SUMMER GARDEN PARTY>/j 19
The annual Gardeners' Question Time party
returns to the National Botanic Garden of Wales,
with the full panel present to answer your garden
queries. Tickets cost £11.75. gardenofwales.org.uk
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SUMMER HEAT
Extend your summer
evenings as the nights
draw in with this
lightweight BRAZIER
from Cox & Cox. Made
from rusted steel, it
comes in two parts,
measures 33 x 56cm
diameter, and costs
plus p&p from
coxandcoxxo.uk.
made from weathered aeaeia wood with ornate
earved legs and unusual wrought-iron struts. Extending
from 2.45 to 3.35 metres, it ean seat up to 16 people.
It eosts £2,455 exeluding delivery, f^k^ifect.com
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Now in its third year, the Garden Museum's literary festival, A Friend,
a Book and a Garden, will take place in the historic gardens of Hatfield
House in Hertfordshire on October 3-4. This year's speakers, including
Hermione Lee, Alison Weir, Richard Mabey, David Starkey and Alan
Titchmarsh, will spark lively discussions about garden literature. Tickets
cost £120 per day or £230 for the weekend (£95/£180 for Friends of
the Garden Museum), gardenmuseum.org.uk □
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WILLIAM & SON has moved
from Mount Street to a smart
new office and showroom at
34 36 Bruton Street, Wl. Even
more reason to linger over the
jewellery, objets d’art, guns,
leather, games and clothing.
020-7493 8385; williamandson.com
The Sofa & Chair Company has
expanded its aeeessories range to inelude
these detailed ‘Caviat’ VASES, whieh
will fit perfeetly into a neutral deeoration
seheme. Eaeh vase is made from mouth-
blown, hand-earved glass in a smoke
grey eolour. Shown from left are the large
vase, 36 x 24em diameter, /^465, and the
small vase, 15 x 12cm diameter, /^125.
020-8752 8935; thesofaandchair.co,uk
SUMMER SEATING
Outdoor furniture takes on a new dimension when you see the designs of Eos Angeles-based
JANUS ET CIE. This ‘Yin and Yang’ sofa, with its powder-coated steel frame, measures
71 X 150 X 91cm and costs from £3,632. 07 5 57 -9 1523 4; janusetcie.com >
Tatiana Tarfur is now representing GORMAN STUDIOS in the UK. The studio uses verre
eglomise to create decorative panels. The process - where the reverse side of a piece of
glass is gilded with gold or silver leaf - produces a softly reflective surface that is hand
painted for a beautiful finish. Prices start at £1,150. 020-77313777; tatianatafur.com
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Hicks for The Rug Company, is designed to reflect
the movement of water on a lake and is hand-
stitched in wool. Prices start at £380 for a 152 x
91cm rug. 020-7229 5148; therugcompany.com
Luxury kitchen
manufacturer
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designs bespoke
dressing rooms with
innovative storage
and high-quality
joinery — just as you
would expect from
the company. Prices
start at ^^ 18 , 000 .
020-7589 5998;
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ITALIAN FLAIR
At this year’s Milan Furniture Fair, Minotti unveiled its ‘FES FIE’
armehairs, whieh eombine eontemporary design with eomfort. The
ehair shown is upholstered in Minotti’s ‘Alps Fake’ leather and
‘Whisper’ linen mix in petrolio, and has aluminium legs. It measures
68 X 86 X 74em and eosts ^{^3,605. 020-7323 3233; minottilondon.com
Roche Bobois's Nouveaux Classiques spring/summer collection
celebrates the innovative styles and bold hues of Fifties design. This set
of TRIPOD TABLES, 'Archimede', would work well everywhere from
the kitchen to the sitting room. They are made of lacquered cherry
wood and measure from 37 x 50cm diameter. The set of three
costs £2,270. 020-7352 5241; roche-bobois.com
The design of this 'FROND'
table lamp by Oka is based on
a feather-like pinnate leaf. It is
crafted from aluminium with an
antique-gold finish, measures
69 X 23 X 13cm and costs £168.
The linen shade measures
24 X 45 X 29cm and costs £36.
0844-815 7380; okadirectcom
Indonesian batik sarongs
and oriental watercolour
paintings were the
inspiration for the Libero
wallcoverings by Elitis. The
'HALONG'(RM80021)
design shown wipes clean,
and it has a non-woven
backing, which ensures it
is simple to hang. It is
136cm wide and costs £92
a metre, from Abbott &
Boyd. 020-735/ 9985;
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From contemporary interiors to new-build architecture,
renovation and landscape design, our firm specialises
in award-winning residential projects that are refined,
considered and of the highest quality.
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Brighton-based Slovakian ceramist
SILVIA K has designed this
plate and ceramic serving board
with leather handles for William
Yeoward. Both pieces would
look equally good on a sideboard
as pieces of art or piled with
sandwiches for a summer tea.
Available in grey and cream or
blue and cream, the serving board
is 51 X 24cm and costs £220, and
the 29.5cm plate costs £75. 020-
7349 7828; williamyeowardcom
CUISINART COOKERY GLASS
Join House & Garden for an exclusive cooking event in association with
kitchen appliance specialist CUISINART. It will be held at Thyme
Cookery School on the Southrop Manor Estate in Gloucestershire,
on Thursday, September 10,1 2— 4pm. The event will start with a sea-
sonal lunch, followed by a two-hour cookery class hosted by Bertie de
Rougemont and Ben Chesnier from Cellar Society. The theme of the
class is summer entertaining and will include recipes such as grilled
vegetables with summer dips, rack of lamb with salsa verde, and citron
givre sorbet, demonstrating the fuU potential of Cuisinart’s high-quality
appliances. The Cookery School was founded by Caryn Hibbert on her
idyllic country estate in the Cotswold village of Southrop. The estate
also includes a boutique country-house hotel, an entertaining space
in a medieval tithe barn, holiday cottages and an award-winning
seventeenth-century coaching inn and restaurant. The Swan at
Southrop. To enquire about accommodation, call 01367-850174 or
visit thyme.co.uk. Tickets for the lunch (two courses including wine)
and cookery class cost /(50 each. smd o. cheque made payable to
Southrop Manor Estates, with your name, address, email and phone number,
to: Tildy Sturley, Cuisinart at Thymi Cmkery School event. House &
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She has homes in London, Switzerland and Sydney,
but for Lizzie Spender - the wife of Barry Humphries,
aka Dame Edna Everage - the fulfilment of a childhood
equestrian dream has as much appeal as city living
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Lizzie With her horses Athena and
Olympia, and her foal Ins, at the training
stables an hour north of Sydney
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THIS PAGE CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Carol Horne hoses down Lizzie's foal Iris at R D Horne, the
training stables Carol runs with her husband Rob. Rob with Baby the cockatoo. Carol and Lizzie out riding
near the stables. Athena and Iris in the field. Rob trains Iris. A collection of bridles from around the world
is hung inside the stables. OPPOSITE CLOCKWISE FROM TOP A view of the Opera House from Lizzie and
Barry's apartment, which houses paintings, photographs and objets d'art collected by Barry, including
two sculptures by Alfred Janniot (bottom right). At the apartment, Richard Tognetti, of the Australian
Chamber Orchestra, and his wife Satu Vanska discuss with Barry plans for their upcoming Weimar concert
E ver since she was a small child, Lizzie Spender had dreamed
of having a pony. She wanted one more than anything in
the world, so when the poet W H Auden wrote a cheque for
to her father - his friend and fellow poet Stephen
Spender - telling him, ‘What Lizzie needs is a pony’ it
seemed the dream would come true. But it was not to be. The Spender
household was bohemian and well connected, but always short of money.
Although Lizzie’s mother Natasha, a concert pianist, did her best with
occasional riding lessons - there was also a borrowed cottage near friends
with horses, and riding with her friend Angelica Huston on the Irish prop-
erty owned by her film director father John - Auden’s ^{^50 stayed in the
bank and Lizzie’s days and nights were filled with longing for fantasy steeds.
Fast forward nearly half a century to 2003 and a nervous Lizzie was
looking out of the open sides of a helicopter flying low over the
Kimberley, a largely uninhabited area of Northwest Australia. She was
travelling with friends who had bought a remote cattle station with the
intention of helping to preserve the ancient rock art and cave paintings
on the property and educating local Aboriginal children. Horses were
the last thing on Lizzie’s mind - she wasn’t even aware that there were
any in this region - when, suddenly, through the sparse trees lining
a dried-up creek, streamed a small herd of wild horses, or the ‘brumb-
ies’ of the Australian bush. Among them was an astonishingly beautiful
creature moving with all the grace of a thoroughbred. Lizzie found
herself yelling above the roar of the engine: ‘That one there, that’s the
one I want.’ That old longing for a horse of her own had reasserted
itself And thus began an adventure that was to change her life.
During the intervening decades, there had been times when the dream
had almost come to fruition, but other things had taken precedence.
There were jobs in publishing, a respectable (but, by her own admission,
not stellar) acting career, writing and, for the past 25 years, marriage to
the actor, writer, artist and collector Barry Humphries. They have homes
in England, Switzerland and Australia and their life is one of constant
travelling. While in Sydney, they live in an apartment block with that
iconic view of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge. The two-bedroom
apartment is full of pictures, photographs and objects collected by Barry,
and light-reflecting, subtle colours chosen by Lizzie, who has a passion for
paint colours and will mix pigments obsessively until her eye is satisfied.
While the tall and beautiful Lizzie elegantly handles the sophisticated
and peripatetic lifestyle required of Mrs Barry Humphries (the creator
of Dame Edna Everage has nigh-on royal status in Australia), these days
her real interest and joy is derived from working with and riding the two
‘brumbies’, Athena and Olympia, that she brought back from the >
PEOPLE I LIFESTYLE
Kimberley. The wild horses have at times been eonsidered vermin by the
Australian government and eulled to reduee their numbers, and Lizzie
and a team of helpers took extraordinary measures to eateh, tame and
transport Athena and Olympia 5,000 miles to Sydney, the length and
breadth of whieh she reeorded in her book Wild Horse Diaries, published
in 2005. Lizzie now keeps them, along with Olympia’s foal. Iris, at the
training stables of Rob and Carol Horne, about an hour north of Sydney.
Rob is brilliant with horses, training his eharges almost entirely by the
use of body language, whieh he has been doing for the past 50 years. He
and Lizzie are working with Iris, who bueks energetieally when a
dummy ealled Ozzy Mozzy is initially put in the saddle, but she soon
gets used to the idea and eooperates. Lizzie spends as mueh time as she
ean at the training stables, often setting aside days on end to work with
her horses, sleeping in a guest eottage on the property while she is there.
You wouldn’t guess that her heart’s in the outbaek when she’s raeing
around Sydney. She’s no dusty horse wrangler when ehoosing something
to wear from the eolleetion designed by her friend Carla Zampatti, whose
Sydney house is filled with art by the likes of Elisabeth Frink, Anselm
Kiefer and Lueian Freud. Nor when lunehing al freseo at the ehef ’s table
at Nieholas Seafood in Sydney’s Fish Market, where there are so many
Japanese diners you would think that you were in Tokyo. She’s as mueh at
ease diseussing the Weimar eoneert that Barry is planning with Riehard
Tognetti - the eharismatie artistie direetor and lead violinist of the mueh
lauded Australian Chamber Orehestra - as she is guiding friends through
the menu at Maehiavelli, a favourite old-fashioned trattoria. But then
Lizzie is a great eook and has published several books of pasta reeipes.
Further proof — if it were needed — that Lizzie is no one-triek pony □
Lizzie Spender: lizziespender.com
THIS PAGE CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE Lizzie with her close friend
Carla Zampatti, a fashion designer, in Carla's Sydney house. Barry and
Lizzie with Richard and Satu at Maehiavelli, a favourite trattoria, with
owner Giovanna Toppi, who is talking them through the menu. Carla
selects fabrics with Lizzie for her next collection. For Lizzie, the beach
often serves as a place of inspiration. Lizzie fends off a seagull while
lunching al fresco at Nicholas Seafood in Sydney's Fish Market with Barry
and Carla. OPPOSITE The comedian, writer and actor also enjoys painting
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fitly handles the sophisticated and peripateti
le required of Mrs Barry Humphries. The cn
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THE INTERIOR DESIGNER
TARA CRAIG
Judith Wilson talks to the London-based designer about
her use of colour, pattern and texture in this Paris apartment
I love the ehallenge of a brief/ says Tara Craig. ‘I am a guide, not
a dietator.’ This fabulously well-informed young designer has
a passion for textiles and a real flair for eolour, both of whieh
ean be seen in this reeently eompleted projeet in Paris. Tara was
eommissioned by a British elient who asked her to redeeorate
the two-bedroom apartment in a nineteenth-eentury hotel particulier. It
was a projeet that required multiple trips to Paris and follow-up meetings
via Skype to thrash out the hner details.
The original layout of the flat was retained: a small entrance hall
leading into the kitchen, and from there directly into the sitting room
and mezzanine. A small hall, two bedrooms and a bathroom sit beneath.
Excellent features include the original four-metre-high windows and
a washed-oak sitting-room floor installed by the previous owner. Tara’s
aim was to deliver ‘a personal canvas for my client to layer up’.
She has a gimlet eye, creating interiors that are cool and intelligent,
and made a big impact in this apartment by designing a new kitchen
and bathroom. Her client loves to cook, and the kitchen has been
designed to maximise the available space. The brief for a Provencal-
style kitchen inspired Tara to combine petrol-blue painted units with
a Rangemaster cooker in cranberry.
Although the bathroom is compact, it is elegant and feels spacious.
The classical overtones provided by Catchpole & Rye fittings sit well
with the rest of the apartment and feel appropriate for a building of this
period. Metro-style tiles give it a crisp finish.
‘My client is an adventurous traveller,’ Tara explains. ‘Her exotic
finds were a real springboard for the design.’ While the sitting room and
kitchen walls are white, the flat sings with pops of colour and abstract
patterns. The palette for each room was inspired by particular refer-
ences: the ocean hues of the furniture and fabrics in the sitting room, for
example, were inspired by some woven Zulu bowls and a navy diary and
green purse, both from Smythson, belonging to the client.
Tara works closely with several British upholstery workshops, in this
case commissioning a Howard-style sofa and a hand-sprung ottoman
for the sitting room. The latter has sensibly been upholstered in a
graphic print because, as she says, ‘people put their feet up and pattern
is a good tool for hiding marks and spills’.
She mixed these new pieces with a pair of nineteenth-century
armchairs reupholstered with float-button detailing to give a visual lift
to otherwise simple upholstery. Detail is an obsession of Tara’s. ‘If I like
a chair. I’ll prod it and ask, “How is this done?” ’ Equally, she is generous
with sources and happy to accompany a client to a workshop.
It’s texture that seems to excite this designer most: she rubs finger and
thumb together when speaking, as if feeling a particular textile. ‘I focus
on materials that last,’ she says. ‘Eeathers, hand-dyed fabrics and
mohair are all better with age.’
The apartment is the perfect canvas for the client’s finds: a kimono
from Japan, a suzani from Uzbekistan and framed Moroccan slippers.
‘In the end, I want my clients to feel they’ve been on a journey’ Tara
says. ‘It’s important that they feel as though they’ve made a home.’
IN BRIEF
Tara's route to interior design started while
she was studying fine art in Florence,
followed by an internship on the decorating
team at House & Garden and a stint at
The World of Interiors. She also studied
for a diploma in interior design and spatial
planning at KLC, and later for a post-
graduate degree in twentieth-century
design at Sotheby's Institute of Art in
London. Voluntary work with the Irish
Georgian Society gave her an insight into
traditional craftsmanship and, after working
with interior designers including Kerry
Joyce in Los Angeles and Joanna Berryman
of Matrushka in London, Tara set up on her
own in 2012. Two years later, she established
Ensemblier London, specialising in bespoke
headboards. Tara is based in Chelsea and
accepts up to six private commissions a year.
07841-261220; tcraig.co.uk
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NATALIE DINHAM
PEOPLE I PROFILE
I The walls of the spare bedroom are painted
in 'Papaver' by Adam Bray for Papers and
Paints, with an imposing 'Carlyle' headboard
from Ensemblier London upholstered in 'Serpetti'
linen by Martyn Lawrence Bullard.
2 To balance out the high ceiling in the sitting
room, Tara created a decorative feature wall.
'Willow' from de Gournay is printed on Indian
tea paper for an aged finish and complements
the natural fabrics on the seating. The French
armchairs (ironically sourced in England from
The One Off Chair Company) are upholstered in
hand-dyed indigo antigue linen from Howe.
3 The bold blue of the British Standard kitchen
is reflected in the Fired Earth wall tiles, while
the reclaimed stone floor adds a neutral note.
4 Linen curtains - 'Issaguah' in Hummingbird
by 0 Ecotextiles, sourced from M M Design
Textiles - drape down almost the full length of the
four-metre-high sitting-room windows. The green
shade was inspired by the Zulu bowls on the wall.
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Describe the ideal client.
Someone who wants
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interesting visual or
historical references
that they like.
What's your passion?
Antiques and art,
whether twentieth-
century pieces or
eighteenth-century
brown furniture.
I work with a lot of
art dealers and love to
help clients with buying
investment design.
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address book. Howe
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howelondon.com),
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Celina Fox explores Joseph Cornell's magical shadow-box worlds, and reviews other current exhibitions
Cabinets of curiosities were long considered of merely antiquarian appeal,
even by art historians. When first assembled by Renaissance princes and
scholars, they were intended to represent the universe in microcosm, but
such collections of natural and man-made objects lost their meaning with
advances in knowledge. More recently, though, studies in the history of collec-
tions, redisplays of the great Kunstkammern in Vienna and Dresden, and the
installations of contemporary artists, such as those by Damien Hirst, have
reawakened interest in works of wonder and ingenuity preserved within vitrines.
As the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts confirms, the glass-fronted
shadow boxes of Joseph Cornell (1903-72) anticipated this revival.
Although he never left the US - and scarcely ventured out of New York City
- Cornell was obsessed with European culture, collecting the flotsam and jet-
sam of transatlantic voyages that ended up in Fourth Avenue dime stores and
bookshops: discarded Baedeker guides, faded photographs, foreign postage
stamps, hotel brochures and theatre bills. He also had wide-ranging tastes and
an erudite knowledge of history, geography, astronomy and ornithology, as
well as the performing arts of the Romantic era.
From his hoards, he composed miniature worlds of allusive memory -
suggestive of travels he had never made - transfixed forever behind the glass,
like butterflies, beetles or birds' eggs. Photostats of palaces set against
bare twig backdrops evoked the great slab-like
fagades of German electoral residences or grand
Wagons-Lits hotels. Sets of pharmacy bottles
offered alchemical elixirs of life that would remain untested behind the glass.
Despite being self-taught, Cornell was no ingenu. An early work entitled
Tilly Losch (c.1935) represented the dancer as a child in a toy theatre, floating
over the Alps in a balloon - presumably referring to her spectacular career
trajectory from Viennese dancer to the wife of the Anglo-American millionaire
Edward James. That James was also a patron of the Surrealists is significant.
But while it is easy to place Cornell's work within the context of Surrealism, the
artist called himself a Constructivist. The formal design of his boxes was pre-
cisely organised and the grid of inner compartments strictly proportioned,
demonstrating a controlling vision of remarkable order. Yet the contents
scarcely fitted any Modernist agenda. When not raiding his store of Victorian
illustrations, he used reproductions of Renaissance portraits of the Medici
family in boxes loosely based on penny-arcade slot machines.
Shy and retiring, Cornell nevertheless counted many New York artists
among his friends. Though subtle and hermetic, his little boxes exerted
a powerful influence on later practitioners of large-scale Pop and installation
art. But in contrast to their hard-edged commercialism, his art retained the
poetry of imagination, of unspoken dreams and a refined sensibility. To peer
into his boxes is to enter a magical world and to capture vestigially the wonder
aroused by those early cabinets of curiosities. Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust'
is at the Royal Academy of Arts until September
27, supported by JTI and the Terra Foundation
for American Art \>
FROM TOP Joseph Cornell Palace,
1943, and Tilly Losch, c.1935
HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.uk AUGUST 2015 61
INSIGHT I EXHIBITIONS
Pastel portrayals
When used by a skilled practitioner, the
medium of pastel imparts an uncanny
realism to a portrait, as is evident from
the works of Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-
89) displayed at the Scottish National
Gallery in an exhibition that moves to
the Royal Academy in October. Born in
Geneva to French Protestant parents, he
travelled extensively around the capitals
and courts of Europe, depicting their
rulers and luminaries. But his career took
an unusual turn in 1738, when he accom-
panied William Ponsonby, later Second
Earl of Bessborough, to Constantinople.
During the four years he spent at the
Sublime Porte, he went native, growing
a long beard and adopting Turkish dress
and customs. His sitters - including
Western visitors - were also portrayed in
oriental costume, their loose sensual
attire and informal poses contrasting
with the stiff etiquette, powdered wigs
and whalebone hoops that restricted
them, and the artist, back at home.
Uean-Etienne Liotard' is at the Scottish
National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh
(0131-624 6200; nationalgalleries.org)
until September 13; admission, £9; and
the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington
House, Piccadilly, W1 (020-7300 8000;
royalacademy.org.uk) from October 24
to January 31, 2016; admission, £10
FROM TOP Jean Etienne Liotard,
Princess Louisa Anne, 1754, and
Liotard Laughing (self portrait), c.1770
BELOW Rembrandt van Rijn, An Actor in his Dressing
Room, 1638, part of the Chatsworth Devonshire
Collection, on display at Nottingham Contemporary
p >
TOUR OF FORGE
For the first in an annual sequence of shows, the stately
homes, museums and galleries of Nottinghamshire and
Derbyshire have joined forces, inviting visitors to see their
treasures in a new light, through the involvement of con-
temporary artists. A 'Grand Tour Passport' provides access
to four sites: Chatsworth, Welbeck Abbey, Derby Museums
and Nottingham Contemporary. The artist Pablo Bronstein
has selected works from Chatsworth's Devonshire
Collection for display at Nottingham Contemporary, while
his own studies are on show at Chatsworth. Meanwhile
Wright Revealed at Derby Museums (until September 6)
focuses on the recent conservation of works by Joseph
Wright of Derby, including two of the Colosseum, which
have not been on public display for over two centuries. The
Grand Tour, Season One' takes place until September 20;
see thegrandtour.uk.com for details of times and prices
Walter Sickert, Dieppe Harbour, France, 1885
Life studies
Walter Sickert (1860-1942) first visited Dieppe in
1885 and returned nearly every summer until
1922, taking up full-time residence in the fishing
community between 1898 and 1905. The catalyst
was his friendship with Edgar Degas, who encour-
aged him to draw and paint everyday scenes: the
streets, shops and churches of the old town, and
the seafront, harbour and fish market around
the quai Duquesne. For its summer exhibition,
Pallant House Gallery examines how the artist —
who had a cosmopolitan background as the son
of an English mother and a Danish-German
father - introduced modern subject matter to a
British art establishment hidebound by narrative
contrivance. Studies he made in France of popular
leisure activities — Bastille Day celebrations, cafes
and restaurants, the casino and racecourse — were
paralleled by his paintings of Eondon music halls.
^Sickert in Dieppe^ is at Pallant House Gallery, 9 North
Pallant, Chichester (01243-774557; pallant.org.uk}
until October 4; admission, /(8.50 □
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INSIGHT I BUYING ART
BEYOND THE FEOOR
Emily Tobin discusses the work of two artists who make richly
textured and boldly coloured images using linocut printing
Rather unglamorously, linoleum started its life at a faetory in
Staines in the 1 800s. For over a eentury this durable, rubbery
material has graeed our floors in a multitude of inear nations
- from sludgy sehool eorridors to flamboyantly mosaieked
hallways. It wasn’t until the early twentieth eentury that artists
adopted it as a printmaking tool. Snootier members of the art
world dubbed it a ‘poor man’s woodeut’, until Matisse and
Pieasso began produeing bold, graphie images using lino,
elevating the teehnique to a respeetable realm. Inexpensive
and relatively easy to use, the lino is eut away to ereate a raised
surfaee that ean be inked and printed. Printmakers Angie
Lewin and Miehael Kirkman both produee innovative,
brilliantly eoloured and riehly textured works on paper.
BELOW Angie
Lewin, ‘The Twisted
Stem’, 31.5 x 42cm,
edition of 80
ANGIE LEWIN
Angie Lewin's elaborate and intricate prints marvel at the natural world. She creates a microscopic
realm of pebbles, flints, seed pods, stems, teasels and feathers, weaving these elements together to
construct interlocking shapes. 'Plants and other natural forms are a constant source of inspiration. There
are patterns to be derived from seed heads, shells, cones and seaweeds, but it's important to look closely,
as the imperfections and asymmetry, such a twisted leaf or a missing petal, give a lift to the work.'
Angie's process begins with sketching outdoors, recording the landscape and gathering elements to
take back to the studio. These are then translated into colour drawings to work out the composition,
before the image is traced and drawn onto the linocut block, gouged, rolled with ink and applied to
Japanese paper - sekishu, shoji or yumayami are her particular favourites.
Linocut lends itself perfectly to Angie's celebration of native plants. These are not glossy, exotic roses.
Her subjects are unapologetically low key: knotweed, cow parsley and campion are repeated motifs.
Closely worked and rich in tone, her prints tread a fine line between the abstract and the figurative.
Prices start at £185; stjudesprints.co.uk
MICHAEL KIRKMAN
Michael Kirkman works from his studio in
Edinburgh. His is an industrial attic space, with
white-brick walls and a perilously steep staircase
hidden behind vast sliding doors, which let the
cold air whistle through. The effect is very atmos-
pheric, which is lucky because atmosphere is
exactly what Michael is trying to capture -
extraordinary moments in time that could pass
unnoticed. 'Today I watched a dog running
through a sleet storm in sheer delight to be off
the lead,' he says. 'There are so many brilliant
moments in a day to make work from that I am
never short of subjects or ideas.' Michael cap-
tures fleeting, almost dreamlike vignettes - his
overlaid images are filled with people, creatures,
open doors and upturned chairs, with distorted
perspectives, rather like a collage.
For Michael, linocut is a medium that leaves
room for exploration: 'I like the permanence of
cutting the block and not being able to go back.
You constantly have to find ways around mis-
takes and the material plays a part in dictating
the marks made.' As such, with lino prints, the
hand of the artist is often so clear in the finished
work. Prices start at £195; tnkirknnan.conn □
ABOVE FROM TOP Michael Kirkman,
‘Weekday’, 47 x 63cm, edition of 35, and
‘Early Start’, 61 x 70cm, edition of 15
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A ROTHSCHILD RENAISSANCE: Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest
Dora Thornton (British Museum Press, £30)
This splendid catalogue presents a selection of the contents of the Waddesdon Bequest to mark its redisplay
at the British Museum. The works were acquired by Baron Anselm Rothschild and his son, Baron Ferdinand
Rothschild, in the nineteenth century, when there were unprecedented opportunities for collecting in the wake
of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. As well as buying pictures, the Rothschilds formed a Renaissance-
style Kunstkammer-a princely cabinet of small items intricately worked from precious materials, which were
not only of aesthetic appeal but also confirmed their owners' wealth, power and status. Baron Anselm's prize
pieces were the Holy Thorn Reliquary, made in Paris around 1400, and the Ghisi Shield made in Antwerp in
1554. Baron Ferdinand augmented these with exquisite pieces of Syrian and Venetian glass, Limoges enamels.
Renaissance jewellery - including some fakes - and cups wrought from rock crystal, coconut, nautilus shell,
ostrich egg and buffalo horn. These were displayed in the smoking room he created within the Bachelors' Wing
at Waddesdon Manor. On his death in 1898, he bequeathed the contents of the room to the British Museum, en-
abling the estate to pay death duties while preserving the manor and the bulk of its collection intact. Celina Fox
BARBARA WESTBROOK: Gracious Rooms Barbara Westbrook (Rizzoli New York, £29.95)
Barbara Westbrook has been designing homes for over 20 years, since launching her Atlanta-based company
Westbrook Interiors in 1992. This, her first book, features 10 richly illustrated projects that span lakeside retreats,
contemporary houses and sprawling mansions, and provides page upon page of beautiful decoration ideas.
While their proportions and settings may vary, each of her interiors possesses a graceful poise. An easy elegance
is always my goal,' writes Barbara. On the subject of decorating a modern house, she asserts, 'In order to come
alive, it needs a depth from layering, a variety of materials and thoughtful detailing.' A medley of periods and
styles are incorporated into her design aesthetic: vintage American hooked rugs, antique English tables and
French ratchet armchairs create a harmonious mix. Whether it be the crafty role of symmetry, the mood
evoked by blending materials or the softening effect of curtains, the chapters set forth different design prin-
ciples. Barbara considers the ingredients that make an interior charming, classical and, above all, gracious. RD
CONTEMPORARY DESIGN AFRICA Tapiwa Matsinde (Thames & Hudson, £19.95)
In the introduction to this book, the writer Tapiwa Matsinde sets out to liberate us from the idea of the 'single
story' of African design. How can the multi-layered and diverse creative output of an entire continent - devel-
oped over centuries of tradition, migration, colonisation and urbanisation - be described in terms of a singular
aesthetic? It can't. And so she takes us on a tour, hopscotching across the design studios of Africa, from Hamed
Design in Burkina Faso to The New Basket Workshop, a not-for-profit organisation based in Zimbabwe. The
story of each designer or brand is told individually, within chapters dedicated to ceramics, furniture, basketry,
lighting and textiles. While handicraft is a dominant strand in the book, with weaves, beads, wood carvings
and printed textiles, there are also examples of work that feel more Scandinavian than sub-Saharan. Tapiwa
has done well to highlight such a varied group of designers. And while not suggesting that the likes of Dokter
and Misses (South Africa), Tekura (Ghana) and Jomo Design Furniture (Ethiopia) require validation by Western
appraisers, I think their collections would more than hold their own in the design fairs of Europe. David Nichofis
THE ART OF BOTANIGAE lEEUSTRATION
Wilfrid Blunt and William T Steam (Antique Collectors' Club, £35)
Years ago, I co-authored a book with my husband about the myriad examples of wildflowers and orchids in
our English meadow. I was awed by the exquisite complexity and wonder of these supposedly commonplace
plants. So it was with joy that I fell upon this sumptuous book by Wilfrid Blunt, a famous master of art at Eton, and
William Steam, who was the librarian of the Royal Horticultural Society when the book was first published in 1950.
This is a redesign of the 1994 edition, which was revised and enlarged by Steam. An examination of the portrayal
of plants for more than 3,000 years, it is a ramble through celestial fields and a comprehensive overview of
obsessive art: from the cave scratchings of Paleolithic man to the tousled bouquets of Dutch flower paintings;
and from the refined simplicity of Chinese scrolls to the intimate sensual portraits of plants by artists such as
Redoute or Margaret Mee. Every page is revelatory, either of social history or through the lavish reproductions
of masterpieces. It's also full of heartbreaking stories of lost drawings, starving illustrators, secret geniuses,
ruined ambitions and fanatics who went to the ends of earth to find new plants. Polly Devlin □
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Making use of antiques and pretty fabrics, interior designer
Amanda Hornby has sympathetically updated this Cotswolds former dovecote,
transformed into a house by her husband’s great-grandmother
TEXT ELFREDA POWNALL PHOTOGRAPHS | ALEXANDER JAMES | LOCATIONS EDITOR LAVINIA BOLTON
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OPPOSITE The back
entrance of the former
dovecote is bordered
with traditional farm
gates. THIS PAGE
Skylights flood natural
light into the main hall,
which leads to the garden
at one end and the
drawing room on the left
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r I 1 W W ^ first time the interior
I I I IH designer Amanda
^ Hornby saw Hodges
Barn was when she was invited there to meet
her then boyfriend Niek’s family ‘I was quite
petrified, of eourse,’ she says. ‘It was Christmas
and the stairease was woven with holly and ivy
- a tradition we keep up today I ean’t remember
if I stayed, or if we had a family meal, but I do
remember the William Morris wallpaper and
red Formiea worktops in the kitehen.’ Spoken
like a true designer. Niek is now her husband,
and Hodges Barn is their home. These days, the
touehes of searlet in the kitehen eome from a
row of metal Tolix stools and some glass lights
hanging above a huge eentral island, whieh is
topped with eabbage-green Brazilian marble.
The house, in a rolling part of the Cotswolds,
has been in Niek’s family sinee 1945. Hodges
Pieee, as the original building was ealled, was a
giant doveeote built in 1499. It housed pigeons
to provide winter meat for a big house, whieh
stood 500 yards away. When that house burnt
down in 1556, the doveeote was abandoned
and used only oeeasionally to house farm earts.
An attempt to eonvert it into a house in 1938
had to be abandoned beeause of the Seeond
World War until Niek’s great-grandmother
bought the property seven years later.
The sturdy aneient walls and erueiform
strueture of the doveeote made it an ideal base
to ereate a family home full of eharaeter and
eharm. ‘In my mother-in-law’s day, the house
was always full of beautiful things, with lots of
people staying,’ says Amanda.
When she and Niek bought the house from
the family seven years ago, they were deter-
mined to keep that easy-going atmosphere, but
a modern update was mueh needed. For two
years, they lived in a rented house nearby, while
dealing with the builders. The roof eame off
and many of the upstairs rooms were reeon-
figured. But the biggest ehange was the addition
of an extra wing, eoneealed behind what looks
like a garden wall when seen from the drive.
The eouple and their three ehUdren mostly
use an entranee in this new wing, the large and
weleoming garden hall, with its boots and
benehes and sporting paraphernalia. Beside it
on the left is Amanda’s ofliee, whieh looks over
the stables on one side and aeross to the lovely
water garden and woods beyond. Also off this
garden hall is a flower room, with pantry-style
eupboards built around a Belfast sink.
Below this area is a spaeious basement, with a
ping-pong table and a snooker room, its table
re-eovered in blue baize. Leading off the main
spaee is a larder, laundry room, seeond kitehen
Antiques fill the drawing room, where a pair of
eighteenth-century Italian giltwood armchairs
and a sofa covered in Fermoie strie fabric sit on a
needlepoint rug designed by Nick's grandmother
HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.uk august 2015 73
THIS PAGE FROM TOP
Amanda designed
the cupboards in the
flower room, painted
in Farrow & Ball's
'Card Room Green'.
In the garden, a mown
path leads to the pool,
which is enclosed
by yew hedges for
privacy. OPPOSITE
Poured concrete
flooring by Steyson
Granolithic spans the
open-plan kitchen,
with hits of red
provided by Tolix stools
from The Conran Shop
and a pendant from
London Lighting Co
and sauna. The mechanics of a house
- providing enough storage, getting rid of
awkward corners - are important to Amanda.
Anyone can pick a paint colour, but getting the
structure right is what makes a house,’ she says.
Back at ground level, you turn right out
of the garden hall into the kitchen, which
was itself carved from a maze of larders and
boiler rooms. Now, it’s a majestic size, with
a wall of pale grey painted cupboards
designed by Amanda, a French limestone
chimneypiece and a sturdy conker-bright
oak dining table. There is also a long, com-
fortable sofa at one end, where the children
- Cecily, 1 7, Verity, 1 5, and 1 2-year-old Hal -
can sometimes be found, stretched out reading
a book. Many of the couple’s more modern
artworks, which came from their London
house, are hanging in the kitchen.
Walk through the kitchen to the main hall
and you look right towards the front door
under its fanlight and see the yew topiary
and formal garden, or look left and see
through the dining room to an identical door
framing views of the beautiful countryside
beyond. This hall, where farm carts would
once have trundled into the dark space of
the abandoned dovecote, is flooded with
light from a double-glazed skylight that has
recently been renewed.
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Carved from a maze of larders and boiler
rooms, the kitchen is now a majestic size, with
generously proportioned furniture and
space for the owners^ collection of modern art
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There are large, early-nineteenth-eentury
Duteh pastoral seenes hanging in the hall and
stairway, whieh are a legaey of Niek’s Duteh
great-grandmother. She also brought with her
from Holland the dining room’s elegant ehairs,
whieh stand around a figured-mahogany table.
Amanda reused her mother-in-law’s Colefax
and Fowler eurtains here, adding a small repeat
wallpaper from Nieholas Herbert. A pair of
sombre Duteh poultry paintings hangs above
two Forties Freneh pareel-gilt and iron eonsole
tables. It is a ealm and beautiful room.
Calm is Amanda’s watehword in the
drawing room, too. Here, the pink panels of a
Portuguese needlepoint rug designed by
Niek’s grandmother, Nieole Hornby, have
been ealmed by a Farrow & Ball wallpaper in
green. There are two sofas eovered in a ‘tough,
hard-wearing and kid-proof’ Fermoie strie
fabrie and a table, piled with books or set
ready for a game, in front of eaeh window.
The Hornbys have mixed family pieees with
finds from auetions at Christie’s in this room
and throughout the house. Amanda has
designed super-modern houses for some of her
elients, and I wondered if she felt the weight of
family history when designing this house. ‘No,
I didn’t feel I was hghting anything. But I did
want to get baek to the roots of the house, to
think about its history and to use some quite
elassie fabries and wallpapers,’ she says.
A floral Sehumaeher wallpaper in a pale
blue, with matehing eurtains, lends a eool tone
to the bedroom at the top of the house, with
its four-poster bed. Amanda has a bit of a
marble fixation and has used a different one in
every bathroom. In the adjoining bathroom,
she has designed a marble splashbaek in a
swooping eurved shape, soureed from a quarry
that was reopened 20 years ago when the
marble in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles was
being restored. ‘I love its funky psyehedelie
orange and red veins,’ says Amanda. ‘Perhaps
Louis XIV was a bit of marble freak, too.’
The j oiliest of the bedrooms is a ehildren’s
dorm under the eaves, papered in a pink and
green Manuel Canovas toile de Jouy pattern,
and lined with beds. Hal has strung up some
patriotie bunting for a summer sleepover.
In summer, the garden, whieh surrounds
the house on every side, is at its most beautiful.
Yew enelosures provide strueture for an old-
fashioned rose border and hide the swimming
pool; a serpentine pond in the lowest part of
the garden is fringed with angeliea and iris;
and glorious roses elothe the walls of the
herbaeeous border, whieh stands between the
house and the shimmering hay meadows
beyond. Amanda has aehieved her aim. It is
a friendly and happy house filled with and
surrounded by beautiful things □
Amanda Hornby: amandahornhy.com
OPPOSITE
CLOCKWISE FROM
TOP A spare room
features an elegant
mix of patterns,
set off by Cole &
Son wallpaper and
paired with Nicholas
Herbert's 'Berain'
on the headboard
and a Regency-style
giltwood bench c.1890
bought from Christie's
with its paisley fabric.
The 'Vermicule'
wallpaper from Pierre
Frey in a bathroom
contrasts with the
marble bath surround
and splashback.
A children's dorm
under the eves sleeps
up to seven. THIS
PAGE FROM TOP The
top-floor landing leads
to three bedrooms.
A four-poster bed
sets the feminine
mood in a spare room
HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.uk august 2015 77
After years spent looking for a European holiday home, the Lumb family
fell in love with a neglected Fifties house on Ibiza on their very first visit and
set about transforming it into the elegantly cool house it is today
TEXT GABBY DEEMING
PHOTOGRAPHS ANDREAS VON EINSIEDEL
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- All of the main living areas
on the ground floor of the
traditional Ibicencan-style
house lead out to the pool
area, where a covered dining
and sitting area provides
extra entertaining space.
London-based carpenter
Jonathan Goode made much
of the outdoor furniture
HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.uk august 2015 79
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Cushions in Gaston y
Daniela's 'T urkestan', from Abbott & Boyd, and
photographs of Ibiza in the Sixties, taken by
Rolph Blakstad, decorate the first-floor sitting
area. Clever planting by Ronny de Koning of
Petersham Nurseries hides a coastal footpath.
A covered terrace adjoins the first-floor sitting
area. Pergolas provide shade in the courtyard
HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.uk august 2015 81
‘There is no way that I am buying on Ibiza,’
was Justine Lumb’s initial reaetion to the idea
of purehasing a holiday house on the White
Isle. Justine and her husband Riehard had
spent years looking in the South of Franee,
northern Spain and Mallorea for a turnkey
house where they eould spend the summer
with their three daughters. It wasn’t until a
elose friend bought on Ibiza that their interest
was piqued enough to see past the island’s
hen- and stag-party assoeiations.
Eneouraged by their friend’s enthusiasm,
they deeided to visit the Balearie island in
the autumn of 2009, and were amazed by
what they found. Not a eouple to do things
by halves, on this first trip, not only did they
view more than two dozen properties but, by
the time they boarded the plane baek to
London one week later, they had already had
an offer aeeepted.
‘The house needed eompletely renovating,’
says Justine, ‘but the views were remarkably
beautiful and the seale and style of the house
was just what we’d been looking for.’ The
two-storey property is perehed on a striking
peninsula on the east side of the island, just
outside the pretty town of Santa Eulalia. To
visit now is to walk into another world. Erom
the drive, you pass through heavy wooden
doors into a serene white-walled eourtyard
of olive trees and westringia, whieh separates
a four-bedroom guest house and gym from
the main house. When you enter the main
house, a simple hallway leads through to a
light-filled sitting room on the left and the
kitehen on the right; both have large glazed
doors leading out to the pool and terraee.
Baek in 2009, however, it was far from turnkey.
Choosing the arehiteet to rebuild and eom-
pletely reimagine this Eifties house was easy
for Riehard and Justine. They were set on the
look of a traditional Ibieenean finea: the simple,
white eubie farmhouses that have peppered
the island for hundreds of years. They had
beeome familiar with the work of Rolf Blakstad
and his brother Nial, of Blakstad Design
Consultants. ‘I was very keen for them to take
on our house,’ says Justine. ‘There is nobody
on the island that eompares, but we had heard
they were ehoosy about their projeets.’ They
need not have worried. When the brothers
visited the house with their father Rolph, the
founder of the eompany, his reaetion was
simply, ‘It will be beautiful.’ The London-
based interior designer Constanze von Unruh
had worked on the Lumbs’ Riehmond house
and was also brought on board. ‘Constanze is
brilliant at translating my ideas,’ says Justine.
The starting point for the design was the
show-stopping view from the first floor. ‘This
needed to be a spaee that everybody eould use
and enjoy’ says Justine, so it beeame a large
open-plan living area with wide doors that open
onto a smart eovered terraee under the three
eentral arehes of the house. Eurnishing this
striking spaee proved to be somewhat diffieult.
‘But then Constanze eame up with the brilliant
idea of building a C -shape seating area in the
same whitewashed plaster hnish as the walls,’
says Justine. ‘Suddenly the room made sense
and I loved how it extended the arehiteeture
of the building into the living spaee.’
Making the most of the seale of the house,
Justine and Riehard deeided theirs would be
the only bedroom on the first floor. ‘It was one
of the best deeisions we made,’ she says. There
is ample spaee on the ground floor for three
more bedrooms, all with their own bathrooms.
Uniting the arehiteeture and the deeoration
was key to the whole design. ‘It took a lot
of work to make it look this simple,’ says
Constanze. ‘The brief was to ereate a ealm and
organie spaee that seamlessly eonneets the
interior with the exterior.’ The loeal limestone
flooring plays a huge role, flowing from the
interior on to the terraee and the pool. The slim
dark-metal frames of the glass doors ehime with
the smart blaek eurtain rails and Tekna lanterns
that hang in the kitehen, and the traditional
elm eeilings and eupboard doors throughout
are eomplemented by the wonderfully rough
banana-leaf flooring from Tim Page Carpets.
A elever idea was the use of hard-wearing
outdoor fabries for mueh of the interior
upholstery, ineluding headboards and val-
anees in the bedrooms. ‘We wanted a lot of
white,’ says Justine, ‘so it was a praetieal solu-
tion to an impraetieal desire.’ The same fabries
in varying textures are used outside on the
sunbeds, pool sofas and roof-terraee seating.
Reflecting on the restrained colour palette,
Justine points out, ‘It was important that the
spaces could work for a variety of people. I
didn’t want bedrooms to be identifiable as
children’s rooms or guest rooms.’
From headboard heights to hinges, Justine
was fastidious about every detail, as she readily
admits. ‘To get that final finish, you have to be
obsessed. It’s exhausting.’ This obsession,
coupled with Rolf’s understanding of the
island and Constanze’s eye for the perfect finish
proves how successful collaboration can be.
The result is the oasis of calm that Justine had
hoped for, a world away from the 24-hour par-
ties on the other side of the island. Although,
with their teenage girls and a roof terrace and
music system to rival even the smartest bars,
all-night dancing could well be on the cards □
iOakiiad Dfsi^n (^0-34-971
335 373; bii^stadibi^a.CQm
Constanze von Unruh Interior Design:
020-8948 5533; constanze.co.uk
Ronny de Koning: 07774-569609;
petershamnurseries. com
Jonathan Goode: 07768-201945
OPPOSITE Tolix chairs, with cushions in 'Colonsay'
from Ralph Lauren, surround an outdoor dining
table also made by Jonathan Goode. THIS PAGE
FROM TOP The kitchen. The palm-leaf blinds in
the bathroom are from John Boyd Textiles. The
headboard and valance in this guest bedroom are
upholstered in outdoor fabric from Perennials,
which has been used throughout the house
HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.uk august 2015 83
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V Thanks to the innovative approach taken
by designer Anthony Collett and the
enthusiasm of the owners for his suggestions,
this nineteenth-century London flat is now
an exciting space full of colour and texture
TEXT NICOLE SWENGLEY | PHOTOGRAPHS ELSA YOUNG
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THIS PAGE Mirror-glass sliding panels separate
the sitting room, dining-room hall and kitchen.
An abstract design by artist Fiona Gallagher is
on the side facing into the sitting room, with a
gold- and silver-leaf pattern by glass artist Paul
Clifford on both sides facing into the dining room.
OPPOSITE In the dining-room hall, a bespoke dark
oak table made by Atelier Dixon and Fifties oak
chairs sit on a rug by Christopher Farr, which was
inspired by the work of artist Sonia Delaunay
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W hen Anthony Collett suggested installing two sets of full-height, mirror-glass sliding doors
in this nineteenth-eentury flat in south-west London, the idea was greeted with enthusiasm
by the owners. These sliding panels mark the divisions between the kitehen, dining-room
hall and sitting room. The sides of the doors faeing into the dining room are dramatieally
deeorated with a gold- and silver-leaf pattern, with a vibrant abstraet painting in shades
of blue, green and white on the reverse of one of the doors, faeing into the sitting room. The owners’ imme-
diate reaetion to the suggestion, was, “‘That sounds fantastie,”’ reealls the designer, who says this upbeat
response typified the fearlessness of their attitude to the whole refurbishment projeet.
The first-floor flat is in a Grade-II-listed terraee built by Thomas Cubitt in 1827. When the owners
purehased it in 2010, its Seventies makeover was unsurprisingly looking tired and dated. ‘It was done in a
traditional manner with painted walls above dado-height panelling and earpet throughout,’ says Anthony.
His proposed alterations — ineluding removing a wall between the former dining room and study to take the
spaee baek to its original size and ereate the new main bedroom at the baek of the flat — required eonsent
from English Heritage, as well as loeal planning approval.
The installation of new fumed oak parquet flooring throughout neeessitated underfloor soundproofing,
while signifleant new joinery ineluded panelling in the hall and built-in wall units in the main bedroom and
sitting room. However, the sitting room’s magnifleent ‘wedding eake’ eeiling deeoration was retained, as were
the original shutters on the freneh windows in the sitting room and main bedroom.
High eeilings ereate an airy feeling throughout the flat, while elever spaee planning utilises every ineh of
the property’s 242 square metres. ‘We’ve worked on a number of the owners’ previous homes, so we know
how they like to live,’ says Anthony. ‘They don’t entertain a lot and tend to eat out, so we ereated an entranee-
hall dining spaee.’ This aets as a eentral point, with other rooms radiating out.
The hall dining area, sitting room and kitehen ean eaeh be elosed off using the sliding glass panels,
or the rooms ean be opened up to ereate a sense of a single spaee. A eorridor runs around the hall, with
doors into a glamorous marbled eloakroom and the generous main bedroom leading off it. In the main
bedroom, freneh windows open on to a wide, south-faeing terraee flanking this room and the sitting room.
The main bathroom and a eapaeious wardrobe-lined dressing area, whieh replaeed a former bedroom, is
aeeessed from the main bedroom. A separate passage leads to
another dressing room-eum-study and a seeond bathroom in a
far eorner at the baek of the flat. This spaee ean double up as
another bedroom when the owners’ daughter stays.
Some of Anthony’s ideas required eonsiderable trust. Take, for
example, the onyx-elad ehimney breast in the sitting room
surrounding a new modern ehimneypieee, whieh replaeed the
reproduetion Vietorian one the owners of the flat inherited.
Vintage ehairs bought at a Paris flea market have been reuphol-
stered in eanary yellow and magenta, enhancing the room’s
modern feel, while contemporary abstract art adds vibrancy.
Anthony — along with members of his team from Collett-
Zarzycki, including Barnaby Chapman and Allison Jordan - was
involved in every aspect, even down to designing drawer handles
and door fittings. This attention to detail, along with the work
done to alter and enhance the proportions of the flat, has resulted
in a harmonious and orderly space in which modern comforts like
air-conditioning are discreetly integrated.
Inventive touches abound. In the kitchen, the central island
is clad in a green onyx, the subtle colour of which makes an
attractive contrast to the white Corian worktops. In the sitting
room, a bespoke, waist-high screen featuring artist Margie Britz’s
torn-paper decorative panels separates a large desk from the rest
of the space. ‘The desk and computer are hidden as guests enter,
yet the owners can enjoy the full space when sitting there,’ says
Anthony. In the main bedroom, sound-absorbing, fabric-lined
walls add texture, while an upholstered, padded wall, inspired by
a Ben Nicholson relief, acts as a headboard.
It’s a daring space: sophisticated yet welcoming. And while
there’s an element of drama, this feels like a lived-in home in which
colour, texture and personality are the result of inspired choices □
THIS PAGE In the kitchen,
a striking pendant light
by Halo Tech Design
hangs above the island
clad in esmerelda onyx.
OPPOSITE CLOCKWISE
FROM TOP LEFT The
sculptural cupboard doors
in the dressing room-cum-
study at the back of the flat
contrast with the Thirties
Eugene Printz desk. The
main bathroom, with its
mirrored vanity unit, is
positioned at the end of
the dressing area adjoining
the main bedroom. John
Spencer Joinery made
much of the furniture
in the main bedroom,
including the ebony and
sycamore drawer units
and Ben Nicholson-
inspired padded wall
Collett-^arzycki: 69€7;
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Material
GAINS
Interior architect Paula Barnes
has extended this nineteentli-century
London rectory and made creativ'e
use of reclaimed materials
OPPOSITE The front
half of the sitting
room is anchored
by a blue colour
scheme, including the
Edwardian cast-iron
chimneypiece and an
antigue Chesterfield
sofa upholstered in
a paler blue moleskin
from Cloth House.
THIS PAGE Opposite
the chimneypiece
is a bespoke Eliza
Barnes sofa with
an arrangement of
framed botanical
drawings on
the wall above
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THIS PAGE BOTH
PICTURES The
long sitting room
transitions into a
study area, which
leads into the new
kitchen extension
through glazed doors
(bottom). OPPOSITE
In the kitchen, a
2.7-metre table,
reclaimed from
a greenhouse, is
surrounded by
mismatched vintage
chairs and benches;
crystal chandeliers
from The French
House add elegance
A ll designers relish the prospeet of
transforming a house from serateh,
but when that transformation
ineludes a newly extended, effi-
eient kitehen for a professional
eook, her husband and two ehildren, the brief
beeomes quite speeihe. Yet Sussex-based interior
arehiteet Paula Barnes wasn’t fazed. ‘Lisa, the
owner, wanted a eomfortable family home that
made use of reelaimed materials,’ says Paula.
‘Simple and organie, just how I like to work.’
The house is a nineteenth-eentury former
reetory in Riehmond, in south-west London,
blessed with pretty plasterwork, wonderful pro-
portions and original narrow pine floorboards.
Paula was the perfeet fit for the projeet as her
design studio, Eliza Barnes (her middle name is
Eliza), speeialises in beautiful, laid-baek interiors
using reelaimed materials. Eisa Guliek put her
eomplete trust in Paula. ‘She allowed ehanges to
unfold gradually, whieh made it a ereative
eollaboration,’ says Eisa.
The previous kitehen, in an earlier extension,
had a pitehed roof Paula designed a new lateral
extension — also topped with a piteh — whieh
signifieantly widens the spaee. ‘Having studied
arehiteeture, I am not afraid of struetural
projeets,’ says Paula, who also had to take into
aeeount Eisa’s speeifie requests as a former eook
at Petersham Nurseries and more reeently Skye
Gyngell’s new restaurant. Spring. ‘We drew up
a long list, ineluding a home for the steam oven,
iee-eream maker and plenty of pan drawers.’
The enlarged spaee is a vast 93 square metres,
so it was essential to avoid a eavernous feel. ‘The
dining table is 2.7 metres long; anything smaller
would have looked wrong. It was about balan-
eing proportions.’ Reelaimed oak beams were
added for aesthetie rather than struetural reasons,
to add to the rustie feel of the spaee. Eisa speeifi-
eally wanted Belgian bluestone on the floor,
whieh set the kitehen eolour seheme and was a
well-prieed and praetieal ehoiee.
Paula eommissioned the Sussex-based kitehen
makers Reeee Eewery and John Mildoon to
ereate the 2.7-metre island unit from reelaimed
floorboards. While one side has drawers with
mismatehed handles, the oven-faeing side has
open shelves. Additional units are made from
stainless steel, soureed from a eatering eompany.
One wall is elad in opaleseent tiles, juxtaposed
with walls rendered in traditional lime. ‘Render
is great for kitehens, as it’s breathable and ean be
roughed up,’ Paula says. In the dining area, a built-
in eupboard has been htted with reelaimed oak
doors, a find from the International Antiques &
Colleetors Pair in Ardingly. ‘One or two speetaeular
diseoveries ean ehange the design direetion.’
While some designers plan sehemes down to the
last speeifie eolour referenee, Paula eharmingly
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THIS PAGE
CLOCKWISE FROM
TOP LEFT A cosy
spot for breakfast and
coffee was created
next to the kitchen
entrance off the
hall, where a tiered
barbecue, designed
by Lisa with Gustav
Hoock of Ferrous Art,
sits in the fireplace.
Crittall doors were
sourced from eBay
for the utility room. In
the hallway, the large
mirror and console
table are from Swag.
OPPOSITE Belgian
bluestone spans
the kitchen floor
and three different
opaline lights from
Drew Pritchard hang
between oak beams
above the island
refers to ‘an off- grey-blue thing going on’. Of
eourse, she knows exaetly whieh off-grey and
whieh off-blue, as seen on the kitehen island’s
drawers and panelled sides painted in a speetrum
of shades to ereate a patehwork effeet, and the
drawing room’s pewter blue ehimneypieee and
paler sofa and matehing rug. There was a definite
deeision to ereate a breezy, non-speeifie eolour
seheme: every room is painted a different
off-white from Farrow & Ball, with woodwork
also painted in shades from its range.
Paula, whose first degree was in textiles, also
enjoys ereatively mixing fabries. The sitting
room has a easual look, whieh she ereated
by eovering one sofa in moleskin and another
in a eombination of fabries from her own Eliza
Barnes eolleetion. These are separated by a
patterned petrol-blue velvet ottoman. The room
extends from the front of the house to what
was originally the baek, where there is now a
door leading to the kitehen. It is in two parts - a
seating area and a study area.
Upstairs, there were space issues. Lisa and her
husband had planned to have the main bedroom
on the first floor at the front of the house.
However, as Paula explains, ‘it was overlooking
a busy road, so I suggested swapping it with
the bathroom’. Now their bedroom is at the back
of the house, overlooking the garden, with a new
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dressing room separating it from the main bath-
room at the front of the house. The bathroom is
aecessed through a large, glazed reclaimed door.
Paula also commissioned a carpenter to refashion
station waiting-room doors to create cupboards
for the dressing room. Also on this floor are a
spare bedroom facing the garden and a second
bathroom at the front of the house, while on the
second floor, there is a study, another bathroom
and two bedrooms for Lisa’s children.
Lisa and her family moved to London from
Toronto in 2003, so they were furnishing the
house almost from scratch. ‘Lisa wanted me to
be clever with money’ says Paula, who made
canny use of her antiques contacts in Sussex -
giving the owners some great days out shopping,
too. As well as antique finds and eBay bargains,
Paula has incorporated pieces from her Eliza
Barnes furniture range, hand-made to tradi-
tional methods. ‘We’ve also included some Fifties
pieces to balance out the country-house mood.’
Paula took just one year to spawn a gloriously
relaxed family house. ‘I wanted it to be functional,
without losing its inherent sense of history’ says
Lisa. ‘Now it has become a creative and inspiring
space that welcomes change for growing children,
interests and passions’ □
Eliza Barnes: 01273-486800; elizabarnes.com
OPPOSITE The back
garden, accessed via
the kitchen, provides
a view of the roof's
steep pitches. THIS
PAGE CLOCKWISE
FROM TOP LEFT
The main bedroom
has curtains in
Irish linen and an
Edwardian chair
upholstered in Eliza
Barnes 'Florrie' velvet
in olive. A reclaimed
shop cabinet takes
centre stage in the
adjacent dressing
room, which leads
to the Carrara-
marble-clad main
bathroom (bottom)
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THE
KNOWLEDGE
FAMILY FOUNDATIONS Pages 70-77
WHITE AND SHADE Pages 78-83
1 INTAGLIO CASE
Two intaglio cases
hang in a spare room
in this Cotswold house.
These displays sprung
from the Grand Tour
tradition of collecting
plaster impressions of
antique seals. Bridie
Hall is reviving the art
of the intaglio case;
she frames Peter Hone
plasters in handmade
wooden cases, sold at
PentreathSc Hall. This
example measures 25
X 17.5 X 3cm and costs
£245.020-74302526;
pentreath-hall.com
2 STOOL
The deeply buttoned
Napoleon III rope-
twist stool in the
drawing room was
purchased at auction
from Christie's. Mallett
is another venerated
source of fine antique
furniture and often
has rope-twist stools
in the same Fournier
style. This carved
mahogany example
measures 40 x 54cm
diameter and costs
£9,500.020-7499 74//;
mallett antiques.com
3 WALLPAPER
Amanda Hornby
has covered a spare
bedroom in Cole &
Son's 'Hummingbirds'
wallpaper, wrapping
it around the window
seat to frame a circular
window. The paper is
surface printed with
birds, butterflies,
foliage and flowers,
and would add a pretty
touch to any room.
The creamy colourway
used is 1001 and a
10-metre roll costs
£99.020-8442 8844;
cole-and-son.com
1 OTTOMAN
The white cube-shape
ottomans on the first-
floor terrace of this
Ibicencan house
were custom-made
by George Smith.
They have thick hand-
stitched 'pie crust'
piping and are
crowned with shallow
buttoning in a five-
star diamond shape.
If you are looking
to commission
something similar,
expect to pay around
£600.020-7384 1004;
georgesmith.co.uk
2 CHAIR
Hay's 'About A Chair
22' chairs flank the
kitchen table. Their
oak-veneered beech
legs and scooped
plastic seats fit
perfectly with the
pared-back aesthetic
and colour palette of
the house. Measuring
79 X 59 X 52cm, this
design is available
to purchase from
Skandiumfor £179.
020-7590 0030;
skandium.com
3 FLOORING
Designer Constanze
von Unruh chose
simple white pebble
flooring for the
bathroom. Mandarin
Stone's 'Pacific White
Pebble' is similar.
Mesh-backed sections
cleverly piece together
and then are slurry
grouted on installation
to create a seamless
surface with a smooth
feel underfoot. The
pebble sheets cost
£49.28 a square
metre. 0/600-7/5444;
mandarinstone.com
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JODY TODD
Inspired by the houses in this issue^ Bonnie Robinson
gives directions on how to achieve similar style
SOMETHING BOLD, SOMETHING NEW Pages 84-89
MATERIAL GAINS Pages 90-97
1 FABRIC
The dressing roonn-
cum-study inthis
London flat has
roman blinds made
from Romo's 'Quadra'
cotton-mix fabric
in the mercury
colourway. The
pattern sits well with
pieces of mid-century
modern furniture,
as it was developed
from a Fifties block
print composed of
interlocking triangles.
It costs £45.50 a
metre. 01623-756699;
romo.com
2 ONYX
Designer Anthony
Collett has clad various
elements of the flat in
expanses of onyx -the
chimney breast and
kitchen both boast
fantastic pieces of
stone. Lapicida
sources the best
luxury natural stone
and has a wide range
of onyx, available
as tiles or slabs. Its
'Smeralda'onyx
shown here costs
£1,074 a square metre.
0800-0122220;
lapicida. com
3 VASE
The emerald green
vase that takes centre
stage on the dining
table is from Guaxs,
a producer of
seasonal collections
of handcrafted
glassware. This 'Gobi
Tall' vase from its
current collection
has similar vertical
hand-cut grooves. It
measures 45 x 30cm
diameter and costs
€700. guaxs.de
1 TABLE
The side table in the
study area of this
former rectory in
London was a lucky
find at Ardingly
antiques fair. Marston
ScLanginger's wrought
metal 'Cafe' table has
the same traditional
shape. It measures
72.5 X 61.5cm diameter,
is available in the
84 colours within
Marston ScLanginger's
architectural palette,
and costs £585.020-
7881 5700; marston-
and-langinger.com
2 TILE
Owner Lisa Gulick was
keen to have a tiled
hallway, so interior
architect Paula Barnes
used Emery ScCie's
'Chibani No 6T cement
tiles. They feature a
Moroccan beldi motif
and are available in
any combination of
48 colours. The tile
shown measures
20cm square and
costs around £99 a
square metre through
Retrouvius. 020-8960
6060; retrouvius.com
emeryetcie.com
3 PAINT
The kitchen doors
have been painted
in Farrow & Ball's
'Off-Black' -an
incredibly useful inky
blue that gives true
darkness without the
severity of black. The
exterior eggshell is
suitable for woodwork
as well as metal
surfaces and costs
£58 for 2.5 litres.
01202-876141;
farrow-ball.com □
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PHOTOGRAPHS
RACHEL WHITING
Colour me
modern
Ruth Sleightholme combines bold
patterns with coloured glass and iridescent
pieces to create contemporary schemes
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. y- FLOOR Paint on wooden boards, 'Robin's Egg', £39 for 2.5 litres matt
emulsion, from Designers Guild. Vinyl flooring (white), £28 a square metre, from
The Colour Flooring Company. Handwoven and knotted cotton and wool rug,
'Rabari', by Doshi Levien for Nanimarquina, 300 x 200cm, £5,220, from Chaplins.
FURNITURE Sofa,' Blur', by Marc Thorpe, 71 x 240 x 100cm, £3,000, from Moroso.
Silver, lead and glass mirror, 'Cloud', 20 x 100 x 50cm, £3,650, from Tom Palmer
Studio, raised on birch cabinets, 'Forhoja', 20 x 30cm square, £16 each, from Ikea.
ACCESSORIES Blown- and silvered-glass table,'Container' (silver/white), 36 x
38cm diameter, €780; and bottle, 'Container Low' (black/celadon), €270; both by
Sebastian Herkner, from Pulpo. Notebook, 'Libri Muti', by Slow Design, £24, from
The Conran Shop. Blown-glass containers (on table), 'Volumes' (celadon mist and
^Wack), from £60 each, from Dechem. Small cushions, 'Lara' (aubergine), linen,
£22^59 a metre, from LinenMe. Large cushion, 'Washed Linen' (celadon), linen, £26
a metre, from The Hackney Draper; edged in 'Angelique' (vert d'eau), by Verel de
Belval, silk, 310cm wide, £224.40 a metre, from Abbott & Boyd. THIS PAGE WALLS
Paint, from top: 'Apple' and 'Bluegrass', £34.50 for 2.5 litres alterior matt emulsion,
from Eico. Curtain, 'Linen Taffeta' (mediterranean), linen/silk, £84 a metre, from
Lewis & Wood. Sheer curtain, 'Angelique' (sable), by Verel de Belval, silk, 310cm
wide, £224.40 a metre, from Abbott & Boyd. FLOOR Vinyl flooring (china blue),
£28 a square metre, from The Colour-Flooring Company. FURNITURE Blown- and
silvered-glass side table, 'BonBon' (pink), by Luca Nichetto, 60 x 35cm diameter,
€1,450, from Verreum. Glass coffee table, 'Isom Oblong' (green), 40 x 120 x 69cm,
€990, from Neo/Craft. ACCESSORIES Blown-glass pendant lights with wool
cords, 'Harbour', by Michael Ruh and Aimee Betts, £390 each, from The New
Craftsmen. Glass tableware, 'Alpha', by Lobmeyr: tumbler (blue), £255 for six;
and carafe (yellow), £110; both from Vessel. Sixties blown-glass table lamp, £650,
with silk shade (white), £180, from Birgit Israel. Cushion, 'Lara' (citron), linen,
£22.99 a metre, from LinenMe
THIS PAGE WALLS Fabric, 'Rick Rack' (hot pink), by Kit Kemp, linen, £140 a
metre, from Christopher Farr Cloth. Painting, acrylic on canvas. Small Flower,
by John McLean, 76 x 55cm, £5,300, from Wilson Stephens & Jones. FLOOR
Vinyl flooring (from left: lemon and white), £28 a square metre, from The Colour
Flooring Company. FURNITURE Wool-upholstered chair with metal frame,
'Re-Imagined Tall Chair' (yellow), by Nina Tolstrup, 115 x 33 x 60cm, £600, from
19 Greek Street. Glass desk, 'Pirandello', by Jasper Morrison for Glas Italia, 83 x
80 X 49cm, £1,290, from The Conran Shop, with bespoke glass colours available
by special order from Glas Italia. ACCESSORIES Blown-glass and hemp basket,
'Harvest' (ice blue), by Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert, 44 X 40cm diameter, £3,840,
from Gallery Fumi. Blown-glass and steel desk light, 'Oda Small' (white), by
Sebastian Herkner, €690, from Pulpo. Paper stationery, by Le Typographe,
from £2.20, from Designers Guild. Glass paperweight, 'Prism' (acid), by Studio
Arhoj, £16, from Twentytwentyone. Leather pencil case, 'Organised Chaos'
(lemon), £32, from Designers Guild. Hand-painted canvas tote bag (blue and
yellow), by Sinead But, £65, from The Conran Shop. WALLS Fabric,
'Rick Rack', as before. Hand-braided, ceramic-coated thread and brass-framed
mirror, 'Colour Wheel', by Aimee Betts, 80cm diameter, £4,835, from The New
Craftsmen. FURNITURE Glass coffee table, 'Wire Frame' (white), by Pieri Lissoni
for Glas Italia, 30 x 60 x 57cm, £1,095, from The Conran Shop. ACCESSORIES
Blown-glass and beech pendant lights, 'Moulds', from left: light amber, £1,295;
blue, £1,195; and clear, £1,425; all by Jan Plechac & Henry Wielgus, from The
Conran Shop. Crystal decanters, 'Rebel' (from left: blush and plum), by Jo
Sampson, £120 each, from Waterford. Acrylic photo frame, 'Snap' (blue), £150;
and box, 'Neon Pop' (blue), £275; both by AVF, from The Conran Shop. Tall blue
vessel, 'Glass vs Metal', by Liam Reeves, £1,950, from Vessel
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WALLS Paint, 'Robin's Egg', £39 for 2.5 litres matt emulsion, from Designers
Guild. Bespoke gold- and silver-leaf verre eglomise mirrors, 'Bask', from top:
£718, £754 and £718, from Emma Peascod. FURNITURE Glass bookcase,
'Deep Sea', by Nendo for Glas Italia, 151 x 75 x 35cm, £2,525, from Chaplins.
ACCESSORIES Top shelf: Glass sculpture. Pour, by Simon Klenell, 62 x 34cm
diameter, £2,400, from Gallery Fumi. Glass vase, 'Volumes' (celadon), £85,
from Dechem. Middle shelf: Glass bowls, 'Spearmint', by Love Glass, £8 each,
from Ceramica Blue. Blown-glass vessels, 'Bandasky', £90; 'Vase Study', £283
for a set of three; and 'Volumes', £67; all from Dechem. Bottom shelf: Acrylic
bookend, 'Prism' (ocean/green/yellow), by AVF, £610 a pair, from The Conran
Shop. Blown- and silvered-glass bottle, 'Container Low' (black/celadon), by
Sebastian Herkner, €270, from Pulpo
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WALLS Lacquered, hand-dyed paper wallcovering, 'Rockface' (El Capitan), £420
a square metre, from Fromental. Curtains, 'Angelique' (from left: lilas and
pervenche), silk, by Verel de Belval, 310cm wide, £224.40 a metre, from Abbott &
Boyd. FLOOR Vinyl flooring (petrol blue), £28 a square metre, from The Colour
Flooring Company. Handwoven silk dhurrie, 'Paragon' (opal and rhodonite), 274 x
182cm, £905 a square metre, from Vanderhurd. FURNITURE Vitrite bath,
'Rockwell' (blue feet), 69 x170 x 80cm, £5,880, from The Water Monopoly. Stainless-
steel tray table, 'Habibi', by Philipp Mainzer for E15, 47 x 37cm diameter, £950,
from Viaduct. ACCESSORIES Blown- and silvered-glass hanging mirror,
'Estampe', by Frangois Azambourg, £5,200, from Galerie Kreo. Dichroic-coated
blown-glass pendant light, 'Iris' (gold/indigo), €3,195, from Neo/Craft. Cotton face-
cloths, by Hay, £18 for two, from Self ridges. Soap, 'Citron', £2.50, from The Conran
Shop. Blown- and silvered-glass table, 'Container' (blue/pink), 36 x 38cm diameter,
€780; and bottle, 'Container High' (old rose/blue); €270, both by Sebastian
Herkner, from Pulpo. Blown- and silvered-glass tea set, 'Chado', by Sebastian
Herkner, €285, from Verreum. For suppliers' details, see Stockists page □
THIS PAGE Michal pieces
together a fifteenth-century-
style Istrian stone 'marriage'
chimneypiece for Jamb.
OPPOSITE Oliver restores an
eighteenth-century marble
chimneypiece for Chesney's
..p
Rising Trom
the ashes
It hasn’t been long since many of the elaborate
chimneypieces of England’s grander houses were
ripped out and consigned to the scrapheap. But now
they are back in fashion, thanks to their unrivalled
craftsmanship and intriguing provenance, as
DAVID NICHOLES discovers
PHOTOGRAPHS ANDREW MONTGOMERY
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[_ .
[j
T he great soeio-politieal soothsayer George
Orwell wrote an essay for the Evening
Standard in 1 945 entitled ‘The case for the
open fire’. In it, he conjured up an image
of idyllic domesticity, in which a family
and their dog are gathered in the sitting
room in front of a fire. In the face of coal
rationing and the rise of the electric fire,
scenes like this may disappear, Orwell
warned. ‘The survival of the family as an
institution may be more dependent on [the fireplace] than we realise.’
We can decide for ourselves whether Orwell’s fear became fact, but
what is certain is the shameful story of what happened in the years
that followed. Central heating began to replace open fires in many a
middle-class house, and the Clean Air Act of 1956 put paid to the
burning of solid fuel in cities. A little later, televisions ousted the fire-
place as the focal point of the nation’s sitting rooms. Concurrently, as
societal changes resulted in prohibitively high running costs, about a
sixth of English country houses were demolished. Across the country,
chimneypieces were systematically stripped from grand and modest
houses alike and discarded.
So why is it that now, 70 years after Orwell wrote his essay, some of
these very chimneypieces — particularly the grander, more elaborate
examples — have become highly sought after once again? ‘I think there
is something very inspiring in knowing that someone has sat in front of
one of these pieces with a fire burning for 200 years,’ says Paul Chesney
managing director of the fireplace specialist Chesney’s. The company
has been dealing in antique fireplaces since 1 984, although for many
years its smart reproductions, modern designs and, more recently,
wood-burning stoves have dominated its sales.
According to Paul, the carved stone and marble pieces from the
eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries have been enjoying a new
lease of life. ‘During that period, they were making chimneypieces from
white statuary marble with barely a blemish,’ he says. ‘Today that’s
almost impossible to find. The quarries are quarried. We can patinate
a reproduction, but there’s something intangible about a piece that has
taken 200 years to look that way, which can’t be replicated.’ Earlier this
year, he opened a showroom dedicated to antique chimneypieces that
cost between ^2,000 and ^{^500,000, and by the end of 20 1 5, he expects
sales to have increased by 60 per cent year-on-year.
It is scarcity, at least in part, that has driven up prices. Unlike antique
furniture, which can exchange hands several times within a generation,
an antique chimneypiece tends to stay put far longer. ‘And the minute they
end up in a listed property, they’re out of circulation,’ says Will Eisher who,
with his wife Charlotte Ereemantle, runs the Pimlico Road antiques shop
Jamb. They, too, have noticed a pick-up in demand for antique fireplaces.
‘Up until the Eighties, American dealers
would come over and drive down from
Scotland to the south coast to buy fire-
places, filling up two lorries along the way.
Those days are gone,’ Will says. Now,
dealers such Jamb and Chesney’s make
trips to the US, buying back some of the
same chimneypieces that crossed the
Atlantic during this period. Will recently
undertook a 2,000-mile road trip on the
east coast doing just that, and Jamb cur-
rently has a stock of about 200. ‘My
FROM TOP Will Fisher
and Charlotte Freemantle
in their Pimlico Road
antiques shop Jamb, with
an eighteenth-century
Palladian carved stone
chimneypiece. Scagliola
work on an eighteenth-
century Irish chimneypiece.
Michal prepares
sections of marble
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financial director asked me to stop buying them, but when there are
great things around, you have to buy them. They’re not there forever.’
Chesney’s and Jamb both have workshops in London, in whieh they
restore ehimneypieees that are in varying degrees of disrepair. And both
have small teams of eraftspeople who are tasked with the very delieate
job of bringing the pieees baek to their former glory. At least partially.
The key is to not over-restore. ‘We tend to do enough to stand it up and
then restore it as far as the elient wants,’ Paul says.
Among the eraftspeople at Chesney’s is Oliver, who has worked there
for 28 years after joining through the Youth Training Seheme and is now
the eompany’s top marble earver. He’s working on a Georgian Revival
marble ehimneypieee from 1 880. Alongside him is Matt, whose eurrent
projeet is an intrieate 1770s earved-wood pieee from the West Country.
Miehal, who has worked for Jamb for 1 4 years, explains the seventeenth-
eentury seagliola marble-effeet teehnique he is using to restore an
eighteenth-eentury Carrara marble Irish mantelpieee, while Arek, his
eolleague, shrugs when he says he’s waiting for his fingernail to grow
baek after an altereation with a diamond file and a shard of marble.
Where possible, the dealers have traeed and reeorded the provenanee
of the ehimneypieees they sell. There are some alluring examples: at
Jamb, a mid-eighteenth-eentury pieee featuring Siena marble doves
eame from the now-demolished Methley Hall near Leeds, while
Chesney’s has a similarly ornate pieee that eame from the Green
Damask room of Norfolk House in St James’s Square.
It is heartening to think that these pieees are onee again hnding homes,
although not neeessarily in the humble sitting rooms deseribed by Orwell.
Nonetheless, Paul has notieed that antique ehimneypieees with interest-
ing histories are inereasingly integral to many new design sehemes. Their
return signifies a ehange
OTHER in tastes, and a renewed
QPFP'T A T TQ'TQ architectural
^ ^ J- ^ -L 1 i elements that delight the
eye. Perhaps it is also
an aeknowledgement of
what Orwell elaimed
that the fireplaee repre-
sented: a plaee to gather
and ‘a baekground to our
memories.’ And nostalgia
is a powerful emotion □
NICHOLAS GIFFORD-MEAD
Following 20 years at his base on the
Pimlieo Road, antiques dealer Nieholas
Gifford-Mead (nieholasgiffordmead. eo. uk)
is now in Chelsea. He deals in marble,
wood and stone from the seventeenth to
the nineteenth eenturies, and his pieees
are available to view by appointment.
WHARTON ANTIQUES
Simon Wharton of Wharton Antiques
(whartonantiques.eom) eloeks up eount-
less miles trawling Europe for antique
and reelaimed stone ehimneypieees and
grates. He has a base in the South of
Franee, but sells from Somerset where,
if neeessary they are restored.
GIBIEARO DESIGN
Jesse Gibilaro and his team at Gibilaro
Design (gibilarodesign.eo.uk) have an
exeellent reputation for soureing and
restoring fire grates. Along with these,
they also stoek a vast range of antique
fire tools, sereens and fenders.
Chesnefs: 020-7627 1 410;
chesneys.co.uk \ Jamb: 020-
7730 21 22;j^^b. co.uk
FROM TOP Chesney's
managing director Paul
Chesney in the newly opened
antigues showroom, with an
eighteenth-century marble
ehimneypieee featuring
carvings of the myth of
Romulus and Remus. Oliver
carves sections of marble.
Matt cleans an eighteenth-
century carved-wood
ehimneypieee from
the West Country
HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.uk august 2015 109
Rich
TAPESTRY
Through subtle improvements implemented with a light
touch, Eugenia and Martin Ephson have ensured the tranquil
gardens of Poulton House in Wiltshire are flourishing
■ . ■'V>.
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A row of Irish yew trees delineates the long border, where
shrub roses including 'The Generous Gardener' and
'Gertrude Jekyll' are complemented by a froth of catmint
HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.uk august 2015 111
G ertrude Jekyll’s theory that ‘the first purpose of a garden is to
be a plaee of quiet beauty’ is a phrase that eould have been
written for Poulton House. Hidden away on the outskirts of
Marlborough, this Queen Anne house, with its wisteria-elad
facade, walled garden and river-fringed woodland, is as peaeeful as it is
eharming. So it isn’t hard to see how Martin Ephson, former direetor of
Farrow & Ball and more reeently eo-founder of hand-printed-fabrie
eompany Fermoie, fell for it in a single afternoon, after he and his wife
Eugenia just happened to see it advertised for sale. ‘We were happy living
in Hampshire, but our ehildren were smitten, too, and within a week we
had made plans to buy it,’ says Eugenia. ‘It is a magieal plaee.’
The prineipal areas of the seven-aere garden had been landseaped
and terraeed in the Nineties and it was in good eondition when the
Ephsons arrived in 2006, but Eugenia had already had a lot of experi-
enee designing her Hampshire garden and, with an eye for spotting
where an improvement might be made, she wasted no time in introdueing
ideas of her own. Some have been as subtle as the addition of one more
Irish yew to eomplete a row; the reappraisal and editing of a border or
the plaeing of a seulpture; while others - the ereation of a new kitehen
garden, for example, and a wildflower meadow - have been mueh
grander in seale. ‘We always have plans,’ she says.
The walled garden beside the house is where they most frequently
entertain, though all areas are mueh enjoyed. ‘Ours is a very personal,
family garden,’ says Eugenia. ‘We’re outside a lot.’ From the stone
terraee, you are drawn down a gravel path between pairs of splendid
drum-shape Quercus ilex - all perfeetly spaeed and elipped to mateh
eaeh other - towards arbours and walls festooned with roses. This
topiary and the domed Prunus lusitanica trees leading out through the
gate are mueh loved by Eugenia. ‘We are blessed with magnifieent
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP The wisteria-clad side elevation of the house looks out onto the long border. A descending flight of rills, created by the previous owners, is
modelled on those at Shute House in Dorset. On the lawn between the rills and the main drive sits an abstract bronze sculpture. Chain of Events, by Tony Cragg
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Leading out of the walled garden, with its striking Italian marble sculpture, Heraclitus by Emily Young,
is a gravel path flanked by domed Prunus luscitanica underplanted with Hidcote lavender
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In the kitchen garden, a small timber and lead pavilion is a focal point among the vegetables, sweet peas and
lavender. Eugenia planted hornbeam hedging to act as a windbreak to the plants growing here
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mature trees and that makes myjob here so mueh easier,’ she explains.
A fringe of Alchemilla mollis marks the entranee to a small orehard,
where head gardener Bob gets ereative with a narrow push mower, eutting
helieal patterns into the springy turf beneath the apple, erab apple and
greengage trees. Eugenia lets little go to waste from the garden: she has
shelves laden with bottled apple juiee, jellies, jams and piekles.
Just on the other side of the wall is the long border, whieh Eugenia
has rejigged to bring a sense of unity and ealm. What she refers to as
‘dominant thugs’ like acanthus and Japanese anemones have been
replaced with shrub roses, including ‘The Generous Gardener’ and
‘Gertrude Jekyll’, and ‘Bowl of Beauty’ peonies, laced with aquilegias,
astrantias, sanguisorbas and salvias; a froth of catmint and hardy
geraniums at their feet. In spring, dozens of alliums bloom here and,
later in the year, tall, airy Crambe cordifolia adds structure.
Taking advantage of the natural slope, a descending flight of rills was
made by the previous owners, modelled on the Geoffrey Jellicoe rills
at Shute House in Dorset and now emphasised by Eugenia’s addition of
beech hedging to partially enclose it. Water is a recurring theme here:
to the existing river, lake, pond, fountain and water feature, she has
added a bog garden that has transformed the lower area.
Eugenia’s biggest project has been the kitchen garden. It is in what
was once a field behind Martin’s outhouse office, from which he and
his business partner Tom Helme run Eermoie. Eugenia marked out
the four sizeable beds and intersecting paths with canes and planted
hornbeam hedging as a windbreak. Her favourite features, among the
burgeoning rows of vegetables, are the two magnihcent fruit cages that
Martin designed and had made for her - one now used to grow raspberries
and the other strawberries, blackcurrants and redcurrants. On a warm
summer’s evening, there couldn’t be a lovelier place to potter □
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP An arch of hornbeam hedging leads into the orchard, with its apple, crab apple and greengage trees and creatively
mown lawn. An 'Alan Titchmarsh' rose. A gravel path leads around the edge of the walled garden, with its evenly spaced Quercus ilex trees
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TAKING the
LONG ROUTE
Through hard landscaping and careful planting, garden designer Chris
Moss has made a virtue of the length of his narrow garden in south London
TEXT ANNIE GATTI | PHOTOGRAPHS MARCUS HARPUR
When Chris Moss moved into his south London terraee house nine years ago, he inherited a long
and narrow, west-faeing garden — just hve metres by 22 metres — that proved to be an effeetive
blank eanvas for the garden designer. A paved area with a retaining wall had been exeavated at
basement level, with eonerete slab steps that led up to an expanse of weedy lawn. The only feature
was a single mature silver maple at the end.
Chris, like many new garden owners, had a limited budget and a wish list for his own plot.
‘I wanted to have as many plants as I eould. I also wanted a sunken seating area near the house,
somewhere to grow vegetables and a path that would lead us on a eurving journey’
Sereening went in first: a beeeh hedge on the southern boundary, whieh had been open to the
neighbouring garden; a mixture of elimbers, ineluding Vitis coignetiae and Clematis armandii, on the
trellis above the briek wall on the north side; and two eolumns of Phyllostachys aurea, in long
troughs, to sereen the seating and eating areas elose to the house.
Chris also dug out a seating area at the top of the steps and framed it with a low briek wall,
eapped with timber, so that he and his partner Karoly eould feel enelosed by the planting. He
designed the path, laid with the same oatmeal-eoloured Breedon gravel as the seating area, to
eurve towards the southern boundary. This allowed for a generous border, where a three-metre-
square veg plot eould be fitted in, and the rest of the spaee was gradually hlled by mixed planting
of perennials and grasses. To eoordinate the hard landseaping, Chris painted the steps and retaining
wall blaek, whieh makes an effeetive foil for the greens. He ehose fibreglass eontainers in shades of
graphite for the towering bamboos and also for the box balls and tree fern, whieh ereate a wave
of fresh green forms as you first step into the garden.
It was the realisation that the garden needed more strueture in winter that gave rise to the
winning addition of taupe-painted slatted sereens and a eluster of eloud-pruned box that organ-
ieally snakes through the borders. The metre-high sereens, which subtly divide the plot into three
unequal sections, not only make the garden seem wider, they also provide a pale background for
the textured black pots by Atelier Vierkant. These have been left unplanted and are treated as
sculptural pieces that are dramatically backlit at night.
The geometric shapes of the flower beds close to the house give way to the curving form of the
path as it leads down the garden, and plants are allowed to form cushions of foliage along the
edge. Careful plant selection means that there’s interest in the herbaceous beds from early spring
right through to the end of autumn. Repeat planting of a few key species, such as euphorbia,
geum, astrantia, salvia and sanguisorba, unifies the scheme, while the colours change from the
whites, greens, purples and blues of spring to pinks and oranges and maroon later in the season.
The dry shade beneath the silver maple creates woodland conditions. This has allowed Chris to
plant a sarcococca on either side of the path, and to hll the beds with ferns, hellebores, carex
grasses, white cyclamens, euphorbias — he has even managed to establish a gorgeously scented
Euphorbia mellifera at the edge — and spring bulbs. A wooden bench provides a spot for soaking up
the morning sun, with fragrance provided by the two sarcococcas and the Clematis armandii.
Chris admits that, rather than having a fixed design, the garden has evolved. ‘One year, I treated
myself to the Fermob Luxembourg aluminium chairs and table — probably the most expensive
things in the garden — and another year to the Vierkant pots.’ But, nine years on, it has a relaxed
cohesion that makes this rectangular urban plot a delight to sit in and to view, from all directions □
OPPOSITE
CLOCKWISE FROM
TOP LEFT Chris
draws plans fora
client's garden in his
studio. Bamboos,
box and tree ferns
are planted in pots
on the stairs up to
the raised seating
area. The seating
area is framed
by Ceratostigma
willmottianum,
Verbena bonariensis
and Salvia 'Amistad',
with another seating
area closer to the
house (centre right).
Woodland planting
at the far end of the
garden includes ferns,
hostas, acanthus
and carex. Textured
black pots by Atelier
Vierkant are used
as sculptural pieces.
The long garden
progresses through
two seating areas
to the woodland
area and vegetable
plot accessed by
the curving path
(centre left)
Chris Moss Landscape and Garden Design: 020-7498 8168; chrismossgardens.com
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THIS PAGE Alliums in the
walled garden. OPPOSITE
Sarah Price stands waist-high
in meadow grasses in the
secret garden above the house
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LIVING MEMORIES
Continuing her series, Clare Foster visits garden designer SARAH PRICE at her
family house in Wales, where she is bringing a Victorian walled garden back to life
PHOTOGRAPHS ANDREW MONTGOMERY ,
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nheriting a family garden is a wonderful thing, but
it ean also be inhibiting, as Sarah Priee found out
in 2013, when she moved to the house that had
belonged to her grandparents in rural Wales.
With so many nostalgie memories of the garden
from her ehildhood, she has found it diffieult to
make her own ehanges. ‘It was like a ehildren’s
paradise,’ she remembers. ‘Sinee moving here, I
have struggled with what to do with the garden,
wanting it to stay the same, almost worshipping the
way it used to be. But now I’ve reaehed the point
where I ean start again, and I’m making plans.’
Set on the hilly margins of Abergavenny, overlooked by nearby
Blorenge mountain, the two-aere walled garden is indeed a ehildren’s
paradise, with old glasshouses, trees to elimb, a fast-flowing stream and
an overgrown seeret garden aeeessible only by a tunnel under the lane.
Sarah’s grandparents bought the house just after the Seeond World War
and made the Vietorian walled garden their own, opening it regularly for
the National Gardens Seheme. Her grandmother and later her father
were expert vegetable gardeners, while her grandfather tended the
peaeh espaliers. Her grandmother was also interested in wildflowers,
eolleeting mosses and flowers for a book that
doeumented the loeal flora. Sarah spent sehool
holidays running wild in this garden or going
on ‘extreme walks in unsuitable shoes’ with her
father, a passionate lover of the outdoors.
During this formative time, Sarah devel-
oped a lasting affinity with nature, diseovering
that she had an almost photographie memory
for the plants, eolours and forms of the natu-
ral landseape. ‘In all my work I try to reereate
an atmosphere or the sense of magie that you find in nature,’ she says.
‘Sometimes I use plant eombinations you aetually find in the wild, or
experiment with similar plant shapes or forms. Other times it might be
just the shape of the land or the way a stone wall snakes down a hill that
inspires me. It’s all about elose observation — really looking at things.
Sometimes I take photographs, but mostly I just hold things in my
memory. I might jot something down or sketeh it in a notebook.’
Originally trained in fine art and having graduated with a well-earned
first, Sarah felt inereasingly unsure about a eareer in art. Spending time
down in Abergavenny after graduating, ostensibly to give herself time to
paint, she found herself more and more drawn to the praetieal art of gar-
dening, and eventually aeeepted a job as a gardener at Hampton Court.
With a baekground in art, perhaps the next step into design was inevitable;
she enrolled in a part-time garden-design eourse and entered an RHS
eompetition to design a eoneeptual garden at Hampton Court. She won
the eompetition and her garden-design eareer took off, eulminating in her
high-profile involvement in the Olympie Park gardens in 20 1 2. When her
son Lewin was born soon afterwards, she and her husband Jaek Thurston
deeided to move full-time to Abergavenny. Now expeeting her seeond
ehild, she is designing gardens part-time and enjoying being out of the
limelight for a while, giving herself time to bring her grandparents’ garden
baek to life and putting her own stamp on it. ‘I have a eompletely different
paee of life here, whieh I’m finding is opening up my imagination.’
So what are her plans for this rural idyll? Her first steps have been
tentative, using the existing framework to build on, elearing and
paring baek, seeing what self seeds. In the kitehen garden, she is
restoring the old glasshouses and the gravel paths with their stone
edging. She plans a mixture of vegetables and annuals here, inspired
by the gardens of Priona in Holland, where the late Henk Gerritsen
ereated his utopian vision of what he ealled ‘dreamt nature’, with
wildflowers, weeds and eultivated flowers intertwining with edible
erops. ‘I want my garden to be produetive and praetieal but romantie
and beautiful at the same time,’ says Sarah. ‘It has to be a real garden,
expressive of us as a family, where Jaek can guerilla-plant veg among
my flowers and Lewin can run around.’
She plans to link the different garden areas with what she calls
‘theme species’: structural, easy-to-grow plants that can be repeat
planted in generous drifts throughout the garden to give a sense of
connectivity. Turning away from the traditional concept of organised
borders, she envisages instead a kind of ‘graded meadow’, with low-
growing alpines, wildflowers and taller perennials all blending
together in a painterly sweep of colour and texture. The parallels
between this and one of the abstract watercolours she paints at an
easel set up in the greenhouse are easy to see.
The secret garden is set above the rest of the garden, reached via a
low stone tunnel, which adults must stoop to get through. Emerging
from darkness into light, you find yourself in an enclosed, sloping
meadow, overgrown at the moment with self-seeded oak and horn-
beam saplings, and edged with taller trees. It’s an enchanting place
with a special atmosphere that Sarah is determined to preserve. Here,
her touch will be light and delicate. She will tame the wildness,
perhaps, by cloud-pruning the oaks and hornbeams into crazy forms
and encouraging more wildflowers, but little else. ‘I look at what I see
in nature and manipulate it, exaggerate the layers on the edge of a
stream or woodland, for instance, and pull out those elements to
create a place with the same sort of atmosphere,’ she says. Her dream
is to have a hut over here for overnight camping and gatherings
- ‘a really private space’. The perfect family setting.
For the moment, she is growing lots of plants from seed, looking
forward to trying new, exciting plants and combinations and looking
closely at how they grow, from seedling to seed head. ‘Growing plants
from seed is like alchemy, isn’t it? It’s just so satisfying. I’m just looking
forward to really observing how they grow, how they flower, how they
die back. And then, next year. I’ll try something different. The magic
is in the garden being transient. I never want it to stay still’ □
Sarah Price Landscapes: 020-7703 3973; sarahpricelandscapes.com
The two-acre walled garden is a children^
paradise, with old glasshouses, trees to climb,
a stream and an overgrown secret garden
accessible only by a tunnel under the lane
OPPOSITE ALL PICTURES Snapshots of Sarah's garden, including the old glasshouses that she is restoring (top left) and the overgrown secret garden
(top right), accessible by a small tunnel under the road (middle centre). Sarah is enjoying growing plants from seed (bottom left), which she will slot into the
garden to create a 'graded meadow' effect. She plans to link each area with 'theme species' that will give the garden continuity and a sense of connectivity
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Wine <2? Food
TASTE NOTES I RECIPES I SIMPEE SUPPERS
News, reviews and tips for cooks and wine lovers, by Joanna Simon
It has taken Taywell two years to formulate its SWEET REBEEEION ice creams, but it has been time
well spent. The six flavours — chocolate, strawberry, chocolate hazelnut, pistachio, vanilla, and raspberries
and cream - all deliver on taste, yet are free from lactose, gluten and processed sugar. The raspberries
and cream flavour is also dairy-free. The ice creams contain a total of 7g of natural sugars per lOOg,
compared with 20-29g in normal ice creams; /^4.99-/^5.25 for 500ml. Visit taywell.co.uk for stockists.
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PHOTOGRAPHS: LOUISE HAGGER. STYLING: ALEXANDER BREEZE
WINE (S? FOOD I TASTE NOTES
The new BEESAZAR vermouths from Germany make good eoektails,
but they are worth savouring just with tonic or over ice to get the most
from their complex flavours. They are made at the Schladerer distillery
from local Baden wine, the distillery’s small-batch fruit brandies and
home-grown spices, herbs, peels and blossoms. All four - white, rose, dry
and red - are ^{^36. 50 for 75cl, or ^25 for 37.5cl, Harvey Nichols.
With chilli and salt firmly in the mainstream as flavourings for chocolate,
chocolatiers are now pushing the boundaries even further. Nicolas Cloiseau
of La Maison du Chocolat has stepped into the vegetable patch with his five
dainty Savoury Spirit chocolates. These include praline with black olive
and olive oil, hazelnut praline with porcini mushroom, and milk chocolate
ganache with caramelised spring onion and balsamic vinegar-marinated
fig; £20 for 15 chocolates, £27 for 25. lamaisonduchocolatco.uk
PASTRY
PERFECTION
If you can’t get to Cornwall this summer,
you can get the iconic pasties to come
to you instead. Trevethick’s pasties, from
the award-winning ETHERINGTON’S
FARM SHOP, are handmade daily from
locally sourced meat and vegetables, then
delivered frozen and ready to be cooked.
Along with the original pasty, there is a
vegetarian version and — my favourite —
steak with Stilton. A mixed box of the
three flavours (14 pasties) is ^£’34. 99, from
etherington-meats.co.uk.
'Good with everything'
is a bold claim but, from
burgers to bacon to
smoked fish, I haven't yet
found a mismatch for The
Foraging Fox's Beetroot
Ketchup. Devised by two
friends, Frankie Fox and
Desiree Parker, to soak
up their beetroot glut, its
main ingredients are beet-
root and apples, pepped
up with spices; £3.49 for
255ml. Visit foragingfox.
com for stockists.
i-
For all the
barbecue
recipes and
tips you
could ever
want, and
perhaps a
few more,
dig into Let
There Be Meat
by James
Douglas and
Scott Munro
(Orion, £25).
If you like the idea of buying French wines directly from the growers, YOUR SOMMEEIER
brings you close to doing just that, without having to cross the Channel. The founder,
Eondon-based Celian Ravel d’Estienne, offers a handful of different wines each week (usually
between three and 1 0) and orders the exact number of bottles needed when the sale period
ends, so there is no surplus stock or storage costs, which keeps prices low. The wines change
weekly but, for the record, I had a very good Gimonnet Gonet Champagne.jfomomm^fero.iiA:
WINES OF
THE
MONTH
This pair of Sicilian wines will come in handy
for barbecues and picnics. They also tick a
lot of eco-friendly boxes, hence the name
Purato: organically grown vines; 85 per cent
recycled-glass bottles; and recycled paper
and vegetable inks for the labels. Purato
Nero d'Avola 2013 has plummy, slightly
peppery, sweet-sharp cherry fruit and the
white Purato Catarratto/Pinot Grigio 2014
has a lemon-edged, creamy pear and banana
flavour. Both are £8.99, from Budgens □
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PHOTOGRAPHS TOBY SCOTT | FOOD PREPARATION AND STYLING BRIDGET SARGESON
WINE RECOMMENDATIONS JOANNA SIMON | TABLE STYLING ALEXANDER BREEZE
Blanche Vaughan creates flavourful dishes that make imaginative use of summer
herbs, with bright colours and fragrances adding immediate freshness. These recipes
are simple to make or good to prepare in advance. All recipes serve 6
FIRST COURSE
LEMON RISOTTO
WITH CRISP SAGE
Choose an Italian lemon with bright
zest and a thick skin.
♦ IV 4 litres light chicken stock
♦ 60g unsalted butter
♦ 4 sticks celery, finely chopped
♦ 1 fennel bulb, finely chopped
♦ 1 unwaxed, organic lemon
♦ 300g risotto rice
♦ 100ml Martini Bianco (or other
sweet white vermouth)
♦ 2 tablespoons olive oil
♦ 30g sage leaves
♦ 20g grated Parmesan,
plus extra for serving
1 Bring the stock to the boil, set aside
and keep warm. Put a low, wide, heavy-
bottomed saucepan on a medium
heat. Add 40g of the butter and, when
it starts to foam, add the celery and
fennel with a large pinch of salt. Cook
for about 10 minutes, stirring occa-
sionally, until the vegetables are soft.
2 Meanwhile, cut wide strips of zest
from half the lemon and slice into fine
shreds. Reserve the rest of the lemon
for later. Add the zest, rice and another
large pinch of salt to the saucepan. Fry
for 1 minute, stirring well so the edges
of the rice become translucent. Add
the vermouth, stirring as it bubbles.
3 When the vermouth has been
absorbed, add a ladle of stock, stir
again and cook until the stock is
absorbed. Continue adding stock and
stirring, keeping the heat high enough
so that there are always a few bubbles
and enough liquid to keep the rice wet.
4 While the risotto cooks, add the
olive oil to a frying pan and fry the
sage leaves for a few seconds on
each side. Drain on kitchen paper.
5 When the rice is beginning to feel
al dente (after about 15-20 minutes)
turn off the heat and add the remain-
ing butter and Parmesan. Stir to create
a creamy sauce around the rice. Add
most of the juice of the remaining
lemon and stir again. The risotto
should exude liquid when spooned
onto a plate, so add more stock (or
water) if necessary. Taste for season-
ing and add salt and freshly ground
black pepper, and more lemon juice, if
required. Scatter sage leaves over
each plate and extra Parmesan.
To drink A Chablis is a good match
for the buttery, lemony risotto and
the sage, as are, appropriately, Italian
dry whites such as Verdicchio, Gavi di
Gavi, Pecorino and Arneis: Malvira
Roero Arneis 2013, £10.99, Waitrose.
FIRST COURSE OR
SIDE DISH
VEGETABEES A EA
GRECQUE WITH
EGG AND HERB SAUCE
A perfect dish to cook in advance.
Serve at room temperature or chilled
on a large serving plate from which
everyone can help themselves.
For the vegetables and
poaching liquor
♦ 12 baby leeks, well washed
♦ 3 carrots, peeled
♦ 6 sticks celery
♦ Small bunch asparagus
^ V 2 cauliflower
♦ Juice of V2 lemon
♦ 100ml white wine
♦ 1 teaspoon coriander seeds
♦ V2 teaspoon peppercorns
♦ 1 fresh bay leaf
♦ Sprig of thyme
For the sauce
♦ 2 tablespoons capers, rinsed
♦ 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
♦ V2 tablespoon mild red-wine
vinegar (I use Volpaia)
♦ 20g flat-leaf parsley,
finely chopped
♦ 20g basil, finely chopped
♦ 5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive
oil, plus extra to serve
♦ 4 hard-boiled eggs, peeled
1 For the vegetables and poaching
liquor, prepare the vegetables so
that they are roughly the same size:
cut the leeks into short lengths, the
carrots into sticks and the celery and
asparagus into similar lengths; break
the cauliflower into small florets.
2 Put the lemon juice, wine, spices, bay
leaf and thyme into a large saucepan
and add 1 litre water and 1 teaspoon
salt. Bring to the boil, then add the
leeks. After 1 minute, add the other
vegetables and simmer for 3-4 min-
utes, or until the vegetables are tender
with a little bite. Remove with a slotted
spoon and transfer to a serving dish,
reserving the poaching liquor. Pour a
spoonful of this over the vegetables.
3 For the sauce, roughly chop the
capers and put them in a bowl with the
mustard, vinegar, herbs and oil. Finely
chop the eggs and add to the bowl
with a couple of spoonfuls of poaching
liquor. Stir to make a loose sauce. Sea-
son with salt and freshly ground black
pepper. Serve the vegetables, warm
or cold, drizzled with extra-virgin olive
oil and with the sauce spooned over.
To drink The fresh vegetable flavours
and mustardy, rich, sharp sauce, need
similar crisp, unoaked whites to those
for the lemon risotto. Gruner Veltliner
picks up the herb flavours, or choose
an elegant Chardonnay or Chablis:
Les Domaines Brocard Organic
Chablis 2012, £15, Marks & Spencer. >
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WINE (2? FOOD I RECIPES
MAIN COURSES
CHERMOUEA CHICKEN
WITH POTATOES AND
TOMATOES
Chermoula is a North African mari-
nade made using coriander, smoked
paprika and cumin. The chicken
and potatoes are cooked together in
one pot, allowing the flavours to seep
into each other.
♦ 40g coriander
♦ 20g flat-leaf parsley
♦ 4 cloves garlic, crushed
♦ 2 tablespoons ground cumin
♦ 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
♦ Juice of V 2 lemon
♦ 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
♦ 6 chicken legs
♦ 1kg large, waxy potatoes, peeled
♦ 500g large tomatoes
♦ lOOg Kalamata olives
To serve Herb salad of rocket,
little gem and leaves of coriander,
mint and parsley, seasoned and
dressed with extra-virgin olive oil
and lemon juice
1 Heat the oven to 180°C/fan oven
160°C/mark 4. Put the herbs, garlic,
cumin, paprika, lemon juice and
1 tablespoon of the oil into a blender
with 1 teaspoon salt and some freshly
ground black pepper. Blend to a paste.
Cut four slits in each chicken leg and
put them in a bowl. Add all the paste
and rub it into the chicken.
2 Cut the potatoes and the tomatoes
into 50mm-thick discs. Choose an
ovenproof dish large enough to fit all
the chicken pieces in one layer, with
room underneath for two or three
layers of potatoes and tomatoes.
Pour a little oil in the bottom of the
dish and spread the potatoes and
tomatoes into layers, seasoning with
salt and freshly ground black pepper,
and scattering with olives.
3 Lay the chicken pieces, and any
remaining paste, over the potatoes.
Drizzle with the rest of the oil and
bake on the lower shelf of the oven for
IV4-IV2 hours. The chicken skin should
be crisp and brown and the potatoes
tender to the point of a knife.
To drink Sauvignon Blanc goes well
with the chermoula, tomatoes and
olives, but you can also drink spicy,
peppery reds, such as Cotes du
Rhone or especially Zweigelt: Hans
Igler Zweigelt Classic 2012, £9.50,
The Wine Society (01438-741177).
Alternatively, the Nero dAvola red
wine of the month (see Taste Notes'
on previous pages).
EAMB CHOPS WITH
CHIMICHURRI SAUCE
Originally from Argentina, this herb
sauce tastes excellent with grilled or
barbecued meat.
♦ 60g flat-leaf parsley
♦ 30g oregano
♦ 6 tablespoons extra-virgin
olive oil
♦ 1 clove garlic
♦ 1 large red chilli, deseeded
♦ 1 tablespoon mild red-wine vinegar
♦ 2 tablespoons lemon juice
♦ 12 lamb chops
To serve Courgettes, aubergines
and peppers, chargrilled and then
dressed with extra-virgin olive oil
and lemon juice
1 Pick the leaves from the parsley and
the oregano, and chop finely. Put in
a bowl and cover with the oil. Very
finely chop the garlic and chilli and
add to the herbs with the vinegar and
lemon juice. Season with salt and
freshly ground black pepper, and mix
well. Set aside for 10 minutes.
2 Sprinkle the lamb chops with salt
and freshly ground black pepper, and
heat a griddle pan or barbecue. Cook
for 2-4 minutes on each side, depend-
ing on thickness, so the meat is well
browned but the flesh inside is still
pink. Rest for 5 minutes in a warm
place. Serve the chops with vege-
tables and lots of the chimichurri
sauce spooned over the top.
To drink Many reds go well with grilled
lamb, but this needs a wine to stand up
to the chimichurri. Zweigelt (as before)
works very well. Malbec is another
success, either from South America or
Cahors: Chateau du Cedre Cahors
2011, £16.95, Lea & Sandeman. >
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SEMARY G
WINE (2? FOOD I RECIPES
DESSERTS
RASPBERRY JEEEIES
WITH PISTACHIO AND
THYME BISCUITS
These soft, fruity jellies, served with
crunchy, fragrant biscuits, can be set
in individual glasses orlSOmI moulds.
For the jellies
♦ 800g raspberries
♦ 350g caster sugar
♦ 3 fresh bay leaves,
roughly torn
^ 4 tablespoons Martini
Bianco (or other sweet
white vermouth)
♦ 1 tablespoon lemon juice
♦ 9 leaves gelatine
For the biscuits
♦ 80g unsalted butter
♦ 30g caster sugar
♦ Vz teaspoon fine sea salt
♦ 4 cardamom pods
♦ 1 tablespoon thyme leaves,
roughly chopped
♦ 50g shelled pistachios,
finely chopped
♦ lOOg plain flour, plus extra
for flouring
♦ 1 egg yolk
To serve Double cream
1 For the jellies, put the raspberries,
sugar, bay leaves and vermouth in a
saucepan and add 300ml water. Heat
slowly until the sugar has dissolved,
then bring to the boil. Turn off the heat
and stir in the lemon juice.
2 Sieve the raspberry mixture over
a bowl to produce a smooth liquid.
Discard the solids. Measure the liquid:
you need 900ml, so top up with water
if necessary. Put the gelatine leaves
in a bowl and cover with cold water.
Leave for 5 minutes until soft, then
gently squeeze out any excess water
and add to the raspberry liquid.
Return the mixture to a clean sauce-
pan and heat gently to dissolve the
gelatine. If using jelly moulds, rinse
them in cold water and shake them
out. Pour the jelly mixture into the
moulds or glasses and chill for at least
6 hours to ensure they set properly.
3 For the biscuits, cream together
the butter, sugar and salt. Crush the
cardamom to a powder, removing the
green papery pods. Add the thyme
leaves, pistachios and flour to the
butter mixture. Combine thoroughly,
then add the egg yolk and mix until
a soft dough forms.
4 With lightly floured hands, roll the
dough on a board into a thick sausage.
Wrap in baking paper and refrigerate
until needed. Heat the oven to 150°C/
fan oven 130°C/mark 2. Line a baking
tray with baking paper. Unwrap the
biscuit dough and cut into 50mm
slices (you should have 12) and then
arrange on the tray. Bake for 20 min-
utes or until crisp and lightly coloured.
5 If using jelly moulds, dip each into
hot water and invert on to individual
plates to serve.
To drink These intense, vibrant jellies
need a very sweet wine with good acid-
ity, such as a late-harvest Riesling or,
especially if serving with cream, fine
Sauternes: Chateau Liot Sauternes
2010, £13.49 for 37.5cl, Waitrose.
APRICOT AND ROSEMARY
GAEETTE
The rosemary provides a subtle back-
ground flavour, which works beautifully
with the tart, sweet apricots. It can be
eaten hot, warm or cold.
For the pastry
♦ lOOg plain flour, plus extra
for flouring
♦ 1 tablespoon caster sugar
♦ 75g cold, unsalted butter,
cut into 1cm cubes
♦ 2-4 tablespoons ice-cold water
For the frangipane
♦ 30g unsalted butter, softened
♦ 50g ground almonds
♦ 2 tablespoons caster sugar
For the topping
♦ Vz tablespoon chopped
rosemary, plus a few flowers
to decorate (optional)
♦ 8 apricots, or more if small
♦ 15g unsalted butter
♦ 1 tablespoon caster sugar
♦ 2 tablespoons apricot jam
To serve Creme fraiche or
double cream
RASPBERRYJELLIES WITH
PISTACHIO AND THYME BISCUITS
1 To make the pastry, combine the
flour, sugar and the butter pieces
and stir together, then cut the butter
pieces in the flour, using a food
processor or by hand, until they are
the size of petits pois.
2 If you have used a food processor,
transfer the mixture to a bowl. Add
the ice-cold water, a tablespoon at
a time, mixing lightly until the dough
comes together. Small pieces of butter
should be visible throughout the
dough - this will give it a flaky texture
when cooked. Press it into a disc, wrap
in cling film and rest in the fridge for at
least 30 minutes.
3 For the frangipane, beat the butter
until creamy, add the almonds and
sugar and mix to make a smooth paste.
4 To assemble, first heat the oven to
190°C/fan oven 170°C/mark 5. Line
an oven tray with baking paper. Roll
out the pastry on a lightly floured
surface to form a 30cm circle, about
2mm thick. Carefully lift it onto the
prepared tray.
5 Spread the frangipane in an even,
thin layer over the pastry (you prob-
ably won't need it all, so freeze any
left over). Sprinkle with the chopped
rosemary. Cut the apricots in half,
discarding the stones. Finely slice 4
apricot halves and lay them in a thin
line around the edge of the pastry,
about 4cm from the outside edge. Fold
the edges of pastry over the chopped
ring of apricots to form a crust.
6 Cut the rest of the apricots into
quarters and arrange them over the
base. Melt the butter and brush it over
the crust. Sprinkle the sugar over the
crust and the apricots. Bake for 25-30
minutes on the middle shelf of the
oven, until the pastry is brown and
crisp and the apricots are soft. Melt
the jam in a small pan and sieve it to
make a smooth glaze. Brush this all
over the cooked apricots. Scatter with
rosemary flowers, if using.
To drink A very sweet wine, in which
the honeyed sweetness is balanced by
fresh acidity, such as a Coteaux du
Layon Chaume, fine Sauternes or
Riesling: Seifried Sweet Agnes
Riesling 2012 from New Zealand,
£14.99 for 37.5cl, Laithwaites (03330-
148168). For tableware information,
see Stockists page □
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WINE (2? FOOD I SIMPLE SUPPERS
Virtue and vice
Louisa Carter serves a light summer salad of different textures
followed by an indulgent make-ahead pudding. All recipes serve 6
Lentil, goats’ cheese, fennel and avocado salad
This makes a lovely summer lunch or can be served alongside roast or barb-
ecued chicken. If you're in a hurry, use 600g (drained weight) of ready-cooked
lentils from a can or packet; drain, rinse, then add the dressing as below. You
can also use guinea, spelt or farro in place of the lentils. Toast the hazelnuts
on a baking tray at180°C/fan oven160°C/mark4for 5-7 minutes, then cool
before chopping. Sometimes I roast the fennel in thin slices with plenty of
extra-virgin olive oil and sea salt for about 20 minutes until caramelised.
For the lentils ♦ 250g dried Puy lentils 2 cloves garlic^ peeled,
left whole 2-3 slices root ginger (optional) ♦ Large handful coriander
stalks For the dressing 5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 3 table-
spoons lime juice (about 2 limes) ♦ 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
♦ 1 tablespoon clear honey or maple syrup IV 2 teaspoons ground
cumin For the salad ♦ 3 tablespoons lime juice (about 2 limes) 2
medium fennel bulbs, trimmed (any fronds reserved) ♦ 3 ripe avocados
lOOg baby spinach leaves ♦ Large handful coriander leaves 350g
goats' cheese, thinly sliced or crumbled ♦ lOOg toasted hazelnuts,
roughly chopped To serve ♦ Sourdough or other good bread
1 Rinse the lentils, then place in a large pan with enough cold water to cover
by about 3cm. Add the garlic, ginger if using and coriander. Bring to the boil,
lower the heat and simmer for 20-25 minutes until tender but with a little bite.
Remove the ginger and garlic cloves, drain and return to the pan.
2 For the dressing, whisk the ingredients together with some freshly ground
black pepper (or put in a lidded jar and shake). Taste and adjust if needed to
give a balanced, salty, sharp and slightly sweet dressing. Set aside 2 table-
spoons and stir the rest into the warm lentils. Leave to cool (they can then
be kept in the fridge for 2 days; bring to room temperature before serving).
3 To assemble, put the lime juice in a bowl. Use a vegetable peeler or man-
dolin to shave thin slices of fennel into the juice and toss to prevent it turning
brown. Peel and slice the avocados, and toss with the fennel and lime juice.
4 Mix together the lentils, spinach, coriander leaves and any fennel fronds,
then layer with the fennel and avocado, finishing with the goats' cheese.
Drizzle over the reserved dressing, scatter with the hazelnuts and serve.
Summer plums
When Em short
of time for making
dessert, I stone and
sliee ripe plums,
then sprinkle with
einnamon and
grated orange zest.
Other times, I toss
them with a little
white balsamie
vinegar and a
sprinkling of sugar
(you ean add sliee d
strawberries and
a few mint leaves,
too). If the plums
are laeking flavour
or getting overripe,
I pop them whole
into a pan with
a few eardamom
pods, half eover
with water and
simmer for 1 0
minutes or until
the skins split.
Then stir in a
eouple of spoonfuls
of sugar, eover and
leave to eool. Serve
Iced tiramisu
This is somewhere between a posh version
of Viennetta, an ice-cream cake and a frozen
tiramisu, finished off with a Jackson Pollock-
esque flourish of dark chocolate. Choose
two flavours of ice cream from white choco-
late, vanilla, coffee and chocolate, or use just
one flavour for both layers.
2 X 500g tubs good-quality ice cream
lOOg dark chocolate, broken into pieces
200ml Marsala or sweet sherry 200ml
strong coffee 200g sponge ladyfingers
1 Remove ice cream from the freezer about
15 minutes before assembling. Heat the
chocolate in a heavy-based saucepan over a
low heat until half melted; turn off heat and
leave to finish melting (or melt in a micro-
wave or bain-marie).
2 Roughly line a deep, square tin or dish (at
least 5cm deep and about 19cm square) with
baking parchment. Mix the Marsala and coffee
in a shallow bowl. Briefly dip each ladyfinger
in the mixture and then place in the bottom
of the tin (you'll need lOOg biscuits for this
layer). Spread with one tub of ice cream, in
an even layer, then drizzle half of the melted
chocolate on top. Repeat with the remaining
biscuits, ice cream and chocolate.
3 Freeze for at least 2-3 hours. Depending
on how long it has been freezing, you'll need
to take it out 15-20 minutes before serving □
with Greek yogurt.
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT
A Maasai man dressed in
traditional costume. A campfire
by T alek river. Rekero Camp's
living area and exterior (top
right). Sundown at Rekero. The
Talek river. Lions and cheetahs
(far left) can be seen in Maasai
Mara National Park. On a game
drive. Maasai Mara National
Park at dusk. Rekero's guest
tent. Local guide Salaash Ole
Morompi. Elephants spotted on
a game drive. Acacia House
130 HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.uk august 2015
TRAVEL I KENYA
On private plains
On her first trip to Kenya since a series of violent incidents in coastal areas,
Sophy Roberts experiences the magnificent isolation of the Maasai Mara
I n December 2009, 1 took a month-long
family holiday on the Kenyan coast. We
stayed on the Lamu archipelago, first on
Kiwayu at a lodge on a beach tinted
pink from powdered shells, then at the
Peponi Hotel, in a village just outside Lamu town.
Spending New Year's Eve there was staggeringly
glamorous, the clientele a-swirl in kaftans. We
then rented a private house in Shela village, close
to Peponi. My sons, then aged five and three,
made boats from polystyrene and floated them
off the beach. We ate fresh marlin and went fish-
ing under wind-curled sail in deep-bellied dhows.
Two years later, everything changed. Across the
water from Shela, a French woman was abducted
in the night a month after a British couple was
attacked at Kiwayu by Somalian gunmen; he was
murdered, she was kidnapped and later released.
The Lamu set fled to other destinations where
there was no presence of Al-Shabaab fighters.
Prices fell; hotels closed; locals lost their jobs.
As I write this, Kenya's reputation continues to
decline. On April 2 this year, terrorists massacred
148 civilians - mostly students - in Garissa, in the
country's northeast. Tourism is being brought to
its knees, with the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office advising against all but essential travel to
the Kenyan coast. Yet I find myself drawn back,
reasoning that the Kenyan coast is not the Maasai
Mara, and the Mara is not like anywhere else on
earth. I book a 10-day trip with the low-key safari
company, Asilia Africa, which has a number of
small, well-located lodges in Kenya and Tanzania.
This is the children's first safari. Because of the
exodus, they experience an empty Mara, allowing
them to understand some of the continent the
way my father did when he travelled here to visit
family, before the plains got stuffed with tourists
wielding their telephoto lenses. We have cheetah
kills all to ourselves. We sit with leopards for an
hour without even the faint hum of another car.
To me, privacy is everything on a safari. It is the
reasoning behind not just my choice of timing,
but also the off-radar lodges I book, where my kids
get to 'feel' this country, to smell the sun-scorched
grass and hear the weaver birds burrowing into
nests that hang like baubles off the trees. I want
them to sleep under canvas, not air conditioning,
on simple beds slung under mosquito nets.
The first camp. Rekero, is located on a bend
in the Talek river inside the Maasai Mara National
Reserve. It is furnished with unflashy family
antiques and canvas chairs around the fire. While
you can book it room by room, it is better still if
taken over by a single extended family group,
sleeping up to 20 in nine khaki tents positioned
above pools of burping hippos. But for a family
my size, the larger tents suffice.
I love it here - the hot bucket showers, the river
life at night. I also love the local guides. In Mara
North Conservancy, the children do a walking
safari hand-in-hand with Salaash Ole Morompi, a
Maasai guide who can speak of magic, not just
the mating patterns of a hyrax.
Salaash is one of the co-owners, with Asilia, of
Acacia House, an 'exclusive use' bush home
sleeping six, which is where we go next. Acacia
occupies a hidden pocket in the Lemek hills on
the edge of the reserve, and it is a three-minute
walk from another similarly designed wood and
adobe home, called Mara House, which shares
the same pretty glade and pool.
When not on safari, we while away the hours on
Acacia's veranda, which looks down upon a rolling
lawn towards a waterhole backed by woodland.
We watch matchstick-legged antelope amble in
to drink. Warthogs run around and grunt, their
tails erect like antennae on remote-control cars.
At night we hear a lion.
Salaash comes and goes. Sometimes he takes
the children off to shoot a bow and arrow, or to see
a giraffe that's wandered up. We eat eggs from his
hens and Mara beef with salad that tastes of the
earth. At night, one of the house staff - all of whom
are Maasai - lights a fire in the sitting room.
There's no noise except for wildlife, and the chil-
dren, who argue in their beds about two cheetahs
they saw bringing down a wildebeest earlier that
day. They cannot agree whether Snap or Crackle
was faster and resolve to ask Salaash. I listen to
them establishing the terms of their bet: the
brother who wins has to give his sibling the beads
he strung earlier that day, helped by a Maasai
woman. The scene returns to me now. It makes me
smile for my children, and for a different Kenya
- the one that's a million miles from the version
dominating headlines, which is unfortunately
making so many of us anxious about visiting □
WAYS AND MEANS
Sophy Roberts travelled as a guest of Asilia Africa (asiliaafrica.com;
[email protected]). A seven-night safari for a family of four costs from
£2,700 per person, including four nights at Acacia House and three nights at Rekero, all meals,
_ house drinks, guiding and National Reserve and conservancy fees, but excluding flights. _
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3 CULTURE There is a certain inevit-
ability that older teenagers will end up in
Amsterdam on an Interrail expedition or
some other grungy student format. Such a trip is
likely to entail more coffee shops than culture,
hence the importance of imbuing the teenage
brain with the true essence of this wonderful city:
its art and its architecture. For the manifold glories
of the Rijksmuseum (rijksmuseum.nl), pictured
right, the Van Gogh (vangoghmuseum.nl) and the
Stedelijk (stedelijk.nl), it is essential to book in
advance, by which I mean two weeks before, not
the day before. We chanced upon the beautiful
Begijnhof (begijnhofamsterdam.
nl), an enclosed court reached
via a tiny passageway. It was built
in the fourteenth century as a
sanctuary for a Catholic sister-
hood, and its exquisite collection
of houses - including the oldest
wooden house in Amsterdam - is
still home to single women.
1 HOTEL The next time my 17-year-
old daughter goes to Amsterdam,
she'll probably stay in a hostel, so this
time we thought we'd go for gold. Our
room at the Waldorf Astoria, pictured
above, one of the city's smartest new
addresses, overlooked the stately Heren-
gracht canal. There were moments when
we ascended the graceful steps to the front door, feeling tired and scruffy
after our bicycling adventures, that we knew we didn't quite look the part for
entering such an elegant establishment, but we were welcomed back like
long-lost friends - always the sign of a good hotel. Another sign is when
a hotel's restaurant - in this case Librije's Zusje - wins two Michelin stars
within a year of opening. Quite a feat.
GOING
DUTCH
Pamela Goodman reveals five reasons why
Amsterdam is the perfect place to spend a
sophisticated city break with a teenager
PHOTOGRAPHS JOSHUA MONAGHAN
CYCLING Foolishly, I thought
a tandem would be a lovely way to
tootle round Amsterdam with my
daughter. Lesson one: teenagers don't pedal unless they have to. Lesson two:
cyclists don't tootle, they come at you from all directions, and you need your
wits about you. A slothful teenager on the back of your bike is not a good
idea. So we had separate bikes and, when we weren't deploying our tram-
avoidance techniques, we meandered merrily along canals and over bridges,
stopping whenever something of interest caught our eyes.
TRAVEL I AMSTERDAM
WAYS AND MEANS PamelaGoodmanstayedasaguestof the Waldorf Astoria (00-31-20
718 4600; waldorfastoria3.hilton.com). Double rooms cost from €595 a night, room only.
5 SHOPPING Every fashion-conscious teenage girl loves a vintage
clothes shop - try Laura Dols (lauradols.nl) or Bij 0ns (bijons-vintage.nl).
Meanwhile, every mother - or most - loves a vintage homeware shop
and de Weldaad (weldaad.com), pictured above right, is a must. De 9 Straatjes
(de9straatjes.nl), in the heart of the canal quarter, is shopping nirvana, with
designer boutiques, quaint cafes, bookshops and vintage bargains □
2 FOOD Gouda - you simply can't avoid it.
The wheels of creamy yellow cheese are
piled high in shop windows and the tasting
counters offering samples of truffle, asparagus
and paprika gouda seemed irresistible, but we
peaked early and bowed out of all cheese eating
thereafter. Rijks (rijksrestaurant.nl), the excellent
new restaurant alongside the Rijksmuseum, was
a treat while the more modest Pancake Bakery
(pancake.nl) on Prinsengracht was an indulgence
too far. Somewhere in between was The Lobby
(thelobby-amsterdam.nl), a buzzing restaurant on
Nes - the theatre street - where we ate flamm-
kuchen: thin, pizza-like Alsace bread smothered in
creme fraiche, goats' cheese, honey and thyme.
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TRAVEL I SCOTTISH ISLANDS
Finding Neverland
Julie Davidson takes to the water to reach Eilean Shona, where J M Barrie wrote the screenplay for Peter Pan
T he thrill of landfall. Loch Moidart gleams, the shattered
walls of Castle Tioram loom and I'm bouncing in a fast
inflatable towards Eilean Shona, a 10-minute ride from
the West Highland mainland. 'A wild rocky romantic
island it is too,' wrote the celebrated writer J M Barrie
upon visiting. 'It almost taketh the breath away to find so perfectly
appointed a retreat on these wild shores...'
The author of Peter Pan spent a summer in Eilean Shona House, working
on the screenplay for the 1924 film version of his book. Thus Vanessa
Branson chose 'Neverland found' as the new slogan for the island and its
self-catering properties, all restored and available to rent. The Bransons
have a well-known penchant for private islands. Vanessa's brother Richard
has Necker in the Caribbean, but Eilean Shona is less well known and is
available to people whose income is more modest. Vanessa and her former
husband, Robert Devereux, bought it 20 years ago as a family hideaway,
and it's now her ambition to secure its future by making it pay for itself.
The management of 1,500 acres of hill and 600 acres of woodland - not to
mention its seasonal homes and an artist's studio - comes at a price.
Until the mid nineteenth century, Eilean Shona supported nearly 40
crofting families. Since then, the resident population has shrunk to two
- both are employed by the estate and live in a staff cottage. The island sits
offshore between the remote peninsula of Ardnamurchan and the lonely
lands of Moidart. It has a fine hill to climb, a rugged coast to circumnavigate
on foot and a sublime bay of shell sand and aguamarine water that, with
another nod to Peter Pan, Vanessa calls the 'blue lagoon'. It's also home to
red deer, pine martens, red sguirrels,
otters, seals and sea eagles.
The environment is not for
cissies. Getting there is an adven-
ture; staying there is an exercise in
self-sufficiency. No roads, therefore
no cars; a patchy phone signal; limited internet access; no supermarkets.
Visitors bring their own supplies, transported from the jetty by quad bike
and trailer. A recent innovation is a little shop selling basic supplies and
frozen meals, including venison casserole and shepherd's pie. You can also
place orders with the gifted local cook who leaves prepared dishes on the
mainland jetty to be collected by boat.
Even at its busiest, Eilean Shona feels like a private island, especially
when you leave the main track and trek the network of paths to its glorious
viewpoints, or take to the water on the kayaks and paddle boats that come
with your tenancy. With every bed filled in the 11-bedroom Victorian lodge
and other properties (four one-bedroom cottages, two sleeping four and
Tioram Cottage, which sleeps eight) there can never be more than 44
visitors - and that number is almost never achieved. Recluses won't find
isolation lacking, while the seriously gregarious find house-party heaven in
the comfortable Eilean Shona House, which still feels like a family home.
Building on the experience of creating El Fenn, her boutique hotel
in Marrakech, Vanessa's latest project adds a new level of pared-down
sophistication. The Victorian schoolhouse, last used by pupils in 1937 and
now sleeping four, has been carefully restored to admit light from the sea
and modern plumbing. It has no electricity supply; everything is powered
by Calor Gas and wood from the massive conifers felled by island gales.
Gas mantles, two wood-burning fires and an outdoor hot shower stoke the
romance. Vanessa has kept the interiors simple to let the views provide the
decoration, although she did go shopping in Marrakech for leather rugs
and pottery. Set on a sheltered hillside above a tiny bay, this property
is among the most romantic and
secluded on the island. Loved-up
couples and families, toasting by the
fire or bathing by gaslight, might
even welcome the chance to be
storm-bound within its sturdy walls □
WAYS AND MEANS
Julie Davidson travelled as a guest of Eilean Shona House
and the island boat service (01967-431249; eileanshona.com).
The house sleeps up to 20 and costs from £4,500 for seven
nights, cottages cost from £400 for seven nights and the
newly restored schoolhouse costs from £900 for seven nights.
Prices include boat transfers and some housekeeping. .
Tioram Cottage, one of the stone
houses on the Eilean Shona estate
that is available to rent, sits on the
hill on the banks of Loch Moidart
TRAVELlM
ISLAND PARADISES
From food lovers to families, these Indian Ocean resorts
have something for everyone, says Laura Houldsworth
THRILL OF THE SENSES
In a far-flung atoll of the southern Maldivian archipelago, Six Senses Laamu (above) ticks all the boxes for the ultimate island
paradise: over-water bungalows, a stylish driftwood aesthetic, diving and an indulgent spa. Added luxuries include an ice-
cream parlour, a chocolate studio and an outdoor cinema, where Champagne and popcorn are served under the stars. There's
also the Yin Yang surfing wave, which breaks just off shore. Seven nights in a lagoon water villa, half-board, including domestic
and international flights, cost from £2,549 per person with Turquoise Holidays. 01494-678400; turquoisehoHdays.co.uk
FOODIE RETREAT
For those who love gastronomy as
much as relaxation, Dhevatara Beach
Hotel, on the island of Praslin in the
Seychelles, has created an a la carte
menu featuring spices, herbs and
flowers from the in-house spice
garden. Tour operator Better Late
Luxury recommends combining a stay
in Praslin with a few nights at Banyan
Tree resort on the main island of
Mahe. Two nights at Banyan Tree in a
hillside pool villa (far left), followed by
five nights at Dhevatara Beach Hotel
in an ocean view villa, B&B, including
all internal transfers, cost from £4,496
per person excluding flights. 020-3137
1247; betterlateluxury.com
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150ml, £83, and Sisley
Facial Sun Care Youth
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40ml, £109, available
from all major
department stores.
STRAW BASKET BAG
£55, from The White Company; with cotton beach
towel, £99.95, from Yves Delorme Paris.
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SILK
CHIFFON
DRESS
£199, from
Beach Candy.
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In Mauritius, the newly
refurbished five-star Royal
Palm is a favourite with
honeymooners and families.
The friendly staff at its
kids’' dub provide activities
such as fishing and pizza
mqkiitgjor younger
children, while an open-air
dnmm ftnd ddid wU! keep
older siblings amused.
Equally impressive are the
hotel's three restaurants,
masterminded by the two-
Michelin-star chef Michel
deMatteis. Then there's
the Clarins spa and ayacht
for private charter. Seven
nights in a junior suite,
B&B, includingflights
and private transfers,
cost from fj'2,258 per
person with Beachcomber.
01483-445685;
beachcombertours. co,uh
Natural escape
Great hornbills, dusky leaf
monkeys and tokay geckos
are among the wildlife you
could see on a nature excur-
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‘HERB PEAY’ TABEEWARE INFORMATION
Risotto Stoneware plate, 21cnn, £7.50, from Habitat. Vintage fork, from a selection, from RE. Glass tumbler, £4.95, from India Jane. Dyed vintage napkin, £30, from The
Conran Shop. Twenties garden table, £750, from Appley Hoare Antigues. Painted silk wallpaper, 'Nonsuch' (denali), £450 a sguare metre, from Fromental. Vegetables
Stoneware plate, 26cm, £22; and vintage napkin, £30; both from The Conran Shop. Vintage majolica plate, £28, from Pentreath & Hall. Vintage cutlery, from a selection,
from RE. Glass tumblers, as before. Chicken Vintage roasting tray, from a selection, from The Vintage Kitchen Store. Marble chopping board, 30 x 23cm, £35, from David
Mellor. Tumbler, garden table and wallpaper, all as before. Lamb Earthenware plate, 27cm, £5, from Habitat. Glass tumbler (just seen), £5.90, from David Mellor. Napkin and
garden table, both as before. Galette Stoneware plate, 34cm, £30, from Habitat. Glazed terracotta bowl, 11cm, £22, from Toast. Glass pot, 5.5cm, £5, The Conran Shop.
Tumbler and garden table, both as before. Raspberry jellies Glasses, from £5.90 for a tumbler, from David Mellor. Stoneware plate, 30 x 18cm, £230; and glass pot, 5.5cm,
£5; both from The Conran Shop. Vintage spoons, from a selection, from RE. Garden table and wallpaper, both as before □
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head arehiteet. ‘Our grandfather, Johann Huf founded the eompany in 1912
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Gustomers are eneouraged to visit the faetory in Hartenfels, near Bonn, to
inspeet the produerion of their home. Eaeh one is eustom-made to order, with
Huf Haus building an average 150 homes a year (to the eoUeerive tune of a
€79 million turnover for 2014) or three a week. As Georg observes, ‘it ean take
months to navigate the various restrierions assoeiated with open eountryside
and eity planning; but onee the exaet speeifiearions are agreed you’re looking
at an average three weeks in the faetory, one to two weeks to assemble and four
to five months to finish the interior.’
This speedy turnaround is fuelled by Huf ’s ability to offer eustomers a
‘one-stop-shop’. Its sister eompanies oversee eaeh stage of the design, develop-
ment, eonstruerion and interiors; from the produerion of pre-east eonerete
basement panels and the provision of equipment sueh as sanitary installations
and heating engineering, to bespoke furniture, floor eoverings, rendering
and painting as well as landseape arehiteeture. The lat-
ter is managed by Georg’s oldest daughter, Sarah, who
together with two of her brothers is ‘in training’ to take
the helm of this super-diligent family business. ‘To beeome
a Huf Haus eustomer is to beeome part of the Huf Haus
family’ says Georg who bekeves their eustomer serviee and
after eare is seeond to none.
So how mueh does a Huf Haus eost? £420,000 will
seeure a basie property of l,800sq ft, while something like
the Surrey show home whieh offers 4,600 sq ft of five-
bedroom aeeommodarion would set you baek over £1.4
million. Given eaeh house is a bespoke eommission, the
sky really is the limit with luxury options ineluding spas,
saunas, steam rooms, whirlpools and swimming pools,
media, musie and games rooms, and even hangars. The
seope to ineorporate entertainment faeikties within Huf ’s
flexible floor plans is proving popular with ‘famikes who seek the optimum,
inelusive kving environment’. Best known for its large detaehed designs,
Huf also builds extensions to existing and period properties, tailor-made
apartments and townhouses where the lofty post-and-beam strueture serves
to ereate an ‘outlook’ inside the property. That said, they are espeeiaky suited
to breathtaking loearions where their glazed fagades maximise surrounding
views by ekminaring the barriers between inside and out. As Georg explains,
‘living in a Huf house is kke sitting in the front row of nature’s theatre.’
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A lchemists turn base metal into gold but Alchemy Properties
converts London real estate into prime residential homes.
Based in Soho, the small team has a unique insight into
the world’s most competitive property market, specifically
prime central London.
‘My 30-year career in the London property field has given me a unique
perspective,’ says Gareth Lloyd Jones, founder of Alchemy Properties.
‘Pve learnt how to define the potential of a building, even if this is not
always immediately obvious.’ Alchemy Properties’ intelligent approach
can be seen in its recent projects, including a show-stopping house that
combines a top location in Kensington with luxurious interiors designed
by Armani/ Casa. This house was ingeniously converted from flats back
to a single imposing residence, in accordance with the wishes of the client.
‘When we are instructed on a project, we always take a lot of care to
establish the best way of designing each individual property, so that we
can help the client to achieve their vision and expectations,’ says Gareth.
With unparalleled experience of buying and selling property in prime
central London, Alchemy Properties is able to provide overseas buyers
with detailed advice on which location to purchase in. ‘We can provide
them with guidance using our vast knowledge of areas - explaining, for
example, where the nearest parks and schools are, and who their
neighbours will be.’
Using construction industry contacts. Alchemy Properties is able to
offer purchasers specific properties that seldom get listed on estate
agents’ websites. ‘Normally I hear about potential properties before they
come on the market,’ says Gareth. ‘Estate agents frequently approach us.’
This is due to the company’s excellent track record with sales,
advising and ensuring that clients have the all the necessary paperwork
in place to ensure that finding, negotiating and completing a sale
in this most competitive of markets is conducted as smoothly and
efficiently as possible.
Alchemy Properties’ real advantage is that it’s a small, personable
company, and offers a highly tailored, expert service. The team favours a
hand-on approach, tackling all aspects of property from complex planning
permissions to turn-key designs including bespoke joinery.
This is especially clear with their astounding Kensington property,
mentioned previously. With its striking use of modern pieces and bespoke
materials, this Grade II listed house has been transformed into a
comfortable family home without compromising the important original
architecture. The interiors of this 9,000sq ft building were designed by
Giorgio Armani’s Interior Design Studio by Armani/ Gasa: the result was
such a success that Armani displayed it at this year’s Milan Design Week,
as part of the company’s anniversary celebrations.
Working on behalf of the client, Gareth and his team undertook all
aspects of this unmodernised building’s transformation, from purchasing
it to negotiating planning permission to convert it from flats back into a
single family home and overseeing every aspect of the refurbishment
process. This includes project managing and sourcing all Armani/ Gasa
design finishes throughout, ensuring that the listed building was restored
in a sensitive manner, but also incorporating every modern amenity from
state-of-the-art Armani/Dada kitchens to Armani/Roca bathrooms,
together with furniture and accessories all being Armani/ Gasa. As you
would expect from the Armani collaboration, the interiors reflect the
designer’s distinctive style of sophisticated elegance, with bespoke fabric
panelled walls, veneer wood behind glass with profiles in bathrooms and
Italian-sourced marbles. This six-bedroom property, with passenger lift,
parking and secluded roof terrace, has interiors that display a quality and
timeless luxury almost unheard of in a London rental property.
With several other refurbished luxury rental properties soon to be
available in Ovington Square and Ennismore Gardens, Alchemy is
revealing its discreet talent at transforming Eondon properties into truly
outstanding homes.
For more information on prime central London residences that will be available to rent through
Alchemy Properties, or if you are considering acquiring an unmodernised property, we would be
more than happy to advise on how we can assist and add value. Please call 020 7478 8900,
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Claire Pilton looks at brand-new and newly developed houses in the capital
F amily home or trophy house? Are London’s near the city’s best schools. However, the bigger the
larger residences fit for families? Do toddlers and budget gets, the more business- and lifestyle-focused
teenagers really rule the roost? According to Noel requirements become. At the £20 million mark,
de Keyzer, Director at Savills, ‘Buyers with £10 million buyers tend to be a multiple-home owner looking for
are very much in the family-home market, looking for an indulgent London base from which to host business
a permanent residence with generous outside space meetings and enjoy the best luxury amenities.’
Trophy home
Built in 1817 by Thomas Cubitt, this Grade ITlisted
house is, at 4,600sqft, the largest on Wilton Street,
SWl, complete with extensive terraces and a key
(on application) to the gardens and tennis court of
Belgrave Square; Savills (020 7730 0822) is seeking
f)' 14.2 5 million. The six-bedroom Hurn-key^ trophy
home has been restored and refurbished by brothers Ben and
Nick Wilson of Residence One, whose previous
project in nearby Eccleston Mews achieved
a record-breaking fj6. 2 5 million.--
The Kelly Hoppen touch
London developer Regal Homes (020 7328 7171)
is working with Kelly Hoppen on its 10th turn-key
property Loeated on Bishops Avenue, N2, the
seven-bedroom mansion will be eompleted this
autumn. Early birds, who ean adapt the spee to
their own requirements, should not delay; Regal’s
last trophy home in Hampstead (pietured) seeured
eirea £16 million off-market.
Highgate society
For those would eount Kate Moss and Jude Law as
neighbours, Oetagon has just eompleted a pair of
Georgian-style houses on The Grove, N6. Blessed
by the Highgate Soeiety for replaeing an ugly
1970s apartment bloek, these six-storey six-
bedroom homes feature eontemporary interiors
with glitzy glass lifts and eost £10 million eaeh
through Glentree (020 8209 1 149).
Family-friendly Fulham
Set around three garden squares on Farm Lane,
SW6, London Square Fulham (0333 666 2737) is
a seeure, traffie-free seheme in the heart of family-
friendly West London. The 40 Georgian-inspired
townhouses have three, four or five bedrooms, small
private gardens and underground parking. Wth
more than 80% snapped up off-plan, priees range
from £3.3 million to £4. 15 million.
Bachelor pad
Following in the footsteps of the Candy Brothers come twins
Will and Ben Samuels. Since 2009, their company Wilben
have exchanged sales for investors exceeding fpSO million.
Their latest project, a 7,100sqft house on Chester Square,
SWl, will up that figure by £35 million. If you dond need
seven bedrooms, a spa, cinema, garage or staff quarters,
bachelor-boy Will is selling his £2.35 million two-bedroom
fiat (pictured) on Redclffe Square, SWl 0, through Farleys (020
7589 1234) and Strutt & Parker (020 7373 1010).
One Mulberry Walk, SW3, is an
exeeptional family home that has
been redeveloped behind its
Edwardian fagade by Lennox
Investment’s dream team, Rupert
Bradstoek and Willie Gething. As
former founders of home-seareh
agents Property Vision, they know
how to tiek buyers’ boxes. One
Mulberry Walk has width, height
and light. It harnesses the talents
of interior arehiteet Anthony
GoUett, interior designer Melissa
Wyndham and landseape
arehiteet Randle Siddeley to
provide a refreshingly real and
individual family home that is
stylish, eomfortable and timeless.
Offering 5, 245 sq ft of four-storey
six-bedroom aeeommodation, it
eosts £20 million through Knight
Frank (020 7349 4300) and Russell
Simpson (020 7225 0277). An
extra £750,000 will seeure every-
thing from the fabulous fine art to
the Smythson letterhead. All that’s
missing are ehildren and a happy
labrador!
PROPERTY
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Rosemary Brooke rounds up this month’s highlights from near and far
technology and direct access onto a
private garden. Prices from 1,995 million.
Contact Savills at 01344 295375
Winning
combination
Join the smart set and head to
Ascot: there’s far more to the
historic town than the racecourse.
Two of the four properties at
Fairacre Court — an exclusive new
development by Gala Homes —
have already been snapped up
and it’s easy to see why. Less than
a mile from South Ascot and its
train station, with world-class
schools (including Eton) close
by, these properties are perfect
for family living. Each house has five
bedrooms, an open-plan kitchen and
living area, underfioor heating, the latest
LOOKING
EASTWARDS
Prime central London has
certainly achieved record prices
of late, but investors and owner-
occupiers alike are turning
their attention to prime outer
London, which offers better
value for money and healthier
returns. ‘Demand for housing at
Old Street’s Silicon Rounda-
bout is anticipated to rise
strongly between now and
2021,’ says Sam McArdle of
property agents The Buying Solution. ‘Vastly improved
retail offerings and future infrastructure improvements
have made the area a desirable place to live and has
prompted waves of new development.’
For more information on buying property in East London,
contact Sam McArdle at The Buying Solution at 07918 561050
FROM TOP: Sam
McArdle, Jonathan
Mount, Rachel
Thompson and
Philip Eastwood
of The Buying
Solution
Here comes the sun
Marbella’s popularity with sun-seekers means
that space and tranquillity are in scarce supply.
This substantial property is a rare find: set in
the prestigious Guadalmina Baja estate, it
overlooks Guadalmina golf course. The stun-
ning views are uninterrupted, as there’s not
another building in sight. Designed by an
apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright, the house
was cleverly constructed so that it opens out on
to the garden, a profusion of mature cypress,
olive, fig and almond trees. Find absolute peace
— at the heart of the Gosta del Sol.
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Nestled in over 20 acres of private
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• 20 acres of
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• Estate managed by one of
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• Snooker room
• Aii weather tennis court
• Dedicated security team
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• 15 miies to London
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• 2 miies to Ascot Racecourse
• 4 miies to the
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TA^JE.MAKER
The dos and don’ts of decorating, according to
Suzy Hoodless
The former magazine stylist started her west London interior-design eonsultaney in 2000
VAdobe Pink 4', £24.49 for
2.5 litres matt emulsion, from Dulux.
2 A London house designed by Suzy.
3 'Grasshopper' table lamp, by Greta
Magnusson-Grossman, £338, from
SCP. 4 Oak flooring and eye-level art
in another one of her projects.
5 'Mexique' table, by Charlotte
Perriand for Cassina, £1,812, from
Twentytwentyone. 6 Suzy positioned
the television discreetly in this house
Choose paint colours that make you happy. I love 'Adobe Pink 4' by
Dulux (1), which I used in my daughter's bedroom. I never get tired of
it, which is definitely a sign of success. • Don't worry about what your
friends think; it's the easiest way to waste money. Spend your money
on what is right for you. • Mix up your lighting, with lots of floor and
table lamps (3), as well as decorative wall lights to brighten up
the room. But steer clear of runway spots on
the ceiling. • Take a holistic approach. Interior
design is alchemy: a careful combination of the
right ingredients. It takes passion and careful
styling to turn a house into a home. • Go for
chevron oak flooring (4). It's classic and modern
- a combination I love. • Ask yourself three
questions before you buy something: does it
work aesthetically, is it functional, and does it
fit the budget? • Hang art at eye level (4). People generally hang it too
high. • Don't overlook the practicalities when it comes to bathrooms.
You need eye-level storage and good lighting. If you can fit it in, a
watching television, a new house won't change that, so do install one.
(6). • Follow your head as well as your heart. Be confident and bold.
Take a holistic approach.
Interior design is alchemy:
a careful combination
of the right ingredients
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