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Glynn Boyd Harte, painter, author, post-Pop young-fogey-bohemian and...
Glynn Boyd Harte was born in Rochdale in 1948. He met his wife Caroline Bullock (herself an artist and historian) in the foyer of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1968, when he was a 21 year...
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In Somersetshire, kiln from John Piper, ceramics by Prue Piper.
The Old Laundry in Somerset. This is the house that Prue Piper and her husband Edward found in the 1960s. Built from the local oolite limestone, it was once the laundry for a large country house. a...
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Peepshow in London E2, Simon Costin’s Museum of British Folklore by Adam...
At Unit 1, Cremer Business Centre, 37 Cremer Street http://architecturediary.org/london/events/4970 there’s a peepshow that you can visit for the RIBA London Open Studios / London Festival of...
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Fairground Attractions.
A dozen times a year I drive down the A303 to Cornwall. Just before Launceston, when I am thinking of stopping for a cup of tea, I flash past a brown tourist sign that reads ‘Dingles Fairground...
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New Years greetings from the bibleofbritishtaste 2015
The Eynsham Morris, boy novices at the first stop on their local Boxing Day four-pub fixture. NB Green Man. Photo credit my sister Lizzie who was standing next to me. Thank you for subscribing. A new...
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Stone and shell in Somerset-shire: Belinda Eade.
Flanking the chimney in Malplaquet House – the home of Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe Gowan – are shell candle sconces in the Baroque taste made by Belinda Eade almost 20 years ago. As a pupil at...
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Wonders of the East End: Malplaquet House.
Thirty years ago this old house, built in the 1740s and set back behind a high wall on a main thoroughfare in London’s East End, was a wreck, sans joinery, window frames or fireplaces, its basement...
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At home in West Dorset 2, Julia de Pauley.
I photographed my friend Julia de Pauley’s house here a couple of years ago. It changes all the time. She was designing some belts under her pseudonym, ‘shophound’ but her perfectionism meant that...
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Domenica More Gordon, an artist’s house in Scotland.
Years ago, when our children were young, our generous friend Mary took us all for summer holidays at her family house, on one of the outermost islands in the Outer Hebrides. There in the rain, with...
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Back to the Drawing Board: Pat Albeck.
In the autumn of 2016 I visited the artist and renowned textile designer Pat Albeck in the Oxfordshire gate lodge where she has lived for about four years. She came there with her husband the...
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Shulbrede Priory near Lynchmere.
On the borders of Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire, Shulbrede Priory is the surviving corner of the rather obscure religious house of Wlenchmere, founded at the end of the twelfth century and suppressed...
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David Bridgwater, his curious world.
David Bridgwater wrote to me a few weeks ago. He had read the art book that I published with Yale, Owning the Past, about the English collectors who scoured Italy, Greece and Turkey for antique...
View ArticleThe Old Sweet Dove of Wiveton.
Almost everything here was inherited from Desmond’s grandparents Primrose and Dick Buxton, who bought Wiveton in 1944. The Buxton’s beautified the house and improved its gardens and model farm. Chloe...
View ArticleMeasure, Draw, Build: George Saumarez Smith, architect.
George’s exhibition about drawing, the essential tool of the design process, Measure, Draw, Build, is at the RIBA until November 25th. George is a Director of Adam Architecture. Watch this...
View ArticleAt Wardington Manor, the Land Gardeners.
‘Walled gardens – and restoring them – is what we really want to be doing,’ says Bridget Elworthy. Four years ago Bridget and her friend and partner, Henrietta Courtauld, started the Land Gardeners....
View ArticleMin Hogg’s World of Interiors: Seaweed wallpaper.
‘Timner Wollard painted the wallpaper. She used to do rooms sets and backdrops for us, and then she and I concocted it together. That’s the best bit there, [in the right-hand corner next to the bed...
View ArticleTrereife House in West Cornwall, Lost Land of Lyonesse.
‘The Kitchen was a smoking room before the war. I don’t know anything about the panels.’ Next to the chimney piece, one of two framed birthday cards sent to Wilmay by William Nicholson....
View ArticleOld Albion, Ben Pentreath, Charlie McCormick and their Old Parsonage.
As some of you will know, architect and designer Ben Pentreath and plantsman, florist and collector Charlie McCormick live for most of the time in a small hamlet in West Dorset, although they have a...
View ArticlePeter Hone, Master-Plaster-Caster.
Peter is a Master-Plaster-Caster, the only one of his kind. Now he does bespoke commissions and sells some more via Pentreath and Hall's Rugby Street shop.
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Shulbrede Priory near Lynchmere.
On the borders of Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire, Shulbrede Priory is the surviving corner of the rather obscure religious house of Wlenchmere, founded at the end of the twelfth century and suppressed by...
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