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Happy Home
Our home was recently profiled in Image magazine and it was interesting to see it through ‘a lens’. It really looked like somewhere I would like to hang out! which made me happy. They asked a few...
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Clouded Over
A hundred years ago Europe walked over a precipice: the ensuing slaughter spiralled us into a 20th Century in which each strata of society was left gasping with gaping, bleeding wounds: from Royalty...
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A Taste for Tea
I am always interested in the story behind customs and tastes, how styles emerge and evolve, the history behind enduring motifs: from pineapple to swan, rococo to chinoiserie. Why? because it gives...
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Chez Renoir
Musée Renoir. Most artist’s museums offer a thorough insight into their career and stylistic development but few offer a personal glimpse into how they lived, Renoir’s home in Cagnes Sur Mére does...
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A Week in Provence
Spending time in Provence you reconnect with an eternal good life guided by the seasons and enriched by its extraordinary beauty. My heart beats to the daily cycle as the sun welcomes a clear-sky dawn...
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A Modern Marriage
I am always intrigued by the creative process, the journey behind great design resulting in truly memorable interiors and benchmark collections. What’s the secret? the spell includes imagination and...
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The Infinite Structured World of Vanderhurd
Have you heard of Christine Van Der Hurd? the design cognoscenti have …from Yves Saint Laurent and Biba, to Bergdorf Goodman and Liberty her designs have intermingled in the chicest spaces. Walked...
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woof!
As man’s (and gal’s) loyal best friend dogs have a special place in our hearts and homes. I spotted this interior the other day and the dog leapt off the page, for he is an heirloom dog whose presence...
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Decorex Sketch
September is a storming calvacade after the languor of Summer months, there’s endless shows, events and a constant instagram fizz of fabulous shots: are you Fashion Week frenzied? LDF? Focus-ed? 100%...
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Blooms
If you could go down to the woods today, there’s a final glorious summer-bounty surprise, if your at Ballyvolane that is. Here the hydrangeas are on the turn a rainbowed mass of inky sepia tones...
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Can we go again? Ballyvolane
Ireland’s country houses are the stuff of interior dreams and good life fantasies, whilst the Irish ‘themselves’ are famed for their céad míle fáilte hospitality, That’s ‘guaranteed a grand time’ to...
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Celebrating Cecil
There’s an immediate ‘click’ when you share a passion, in this instance Cecil Beaton. Talking to Andrew Ginger who conceived and put together the exhibition Beaton at Home was fascinating, 10 minutes...
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9, Duchess of Devonshire
There has been so much written about the Mitfords, and by the Mitfords, both during their lives and after , that now as the final obituaries roll off the press for the last sister, ‘wait for me‘ Debo,...
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Yup, Haslam Has It …
It seems fitting that the grand dame of House and Garden, Sue Crewe, should bow out in her final issue, after 20 years at the helm, with an interview of the reigning master of hi-society décor Nicholas...
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Christmas List 2014
It’s Coming…Are you ready? Tick Tock… one never is right, even us Virgos struggle at Christmas. Once again the lists are everywhere and I contemplating house décor in a limited time-poor, slightly...
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A, B, C Books for under the Christmas Tree
A well-chosen book succinctly inscribed to the recipient is a seasonal winner. The books listed below are vicariously grouped and defined by me, from hard back glories to paper back page-turners....
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Making Christmas
This is the time of year when I want to do a ‘wreath making’ course, deck the halls and simmer mulled wine. Hhhm, looking at the assorted wreath-chic… maybe just order one from Athropologie? or Twig? I...
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New Year: New Plans
Hhhmm, I don’t know about you but January is always a knock-out punch, I stagger too slowly after the all consuming Christmas roller coaster and glumly face the endurance test which is January,...
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Stella and Issy’s Gilded Borders
I understand when Stella Tennant says: I’ve been itching to return to making, and now I’m doing it. I’ve been working on projects, mainly renovating houses, and that’s been my outlet. It’s really...
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Into the Woods: memories and magic
I have a thing for book sculptures. I love the woods. I bow down to the seasons. I watch in wonder as my children run arms outstretched towards their future, leaving images of their former selves...
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