MGOLDSTEIN.CO.UK

markcoflaherty.wordpress.com

Curiouser & curiouser (FT How to Spend it) | MARK C.O'FLAHERTY

https://markcoflaherty.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/curioser-curioser-ft-how-to-spend-it

MARK C.O'FLAHERTY. Design, travel and beyond. Laquo; Crossing countries in Patagaonia (The Independent). The town that Rogan built. Curiouser and curiouser (FT How to Spend it). Simon Costin’s home, London. In London’s East End to pick up an off-the-shelf eight-legged stuffed lamb ( 2,000) or a two-headed calf ( 3,500). Simon Costin’s home, London. Props Visitors always respond to the toys, like my 1920s devil Punch and Judy puppets, he says. Bay City Cargo,. 140 Rue des Rosiers, Paris, 93400 Saint-Ouen,...

bibleofbritishtaste.com

The Best Handmade Wallpaper in the world is by Marthe Armitage | Bible of British Taste

http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/the-best-hand-made-wallpaper-in-the-world-is-by-marthe-armitage

The Next Big Thing. The best hand-made wallpaper in the world is by Marthe Armitage. She cut her design into big blocks and printed it on rolls of lining paper, laid out on the floor. These blocks ‘last for ever,’ and she is still printing from them today. A hundred year old lithographic proofing press made things easier and the garage at the bottom of the garden became her studio. Even so, in the eighties and nineties she found herself thinking ‘but nobody wants them. ’. The Woman in Black. Such beautif...

bibleofbritishtaste.com

Culture and Folk | Bible of British Taste

http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/category/culture-and-folk

The Next Big Thing. New Years greetings from the bibleofbritishtaste 2015. Posted in: Culture and Folk. 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 post from BOBT follows shortly. Posted in: Culture and Folk. I was always lucky with goldfish but rides on the merry-go-round were my personal ecstasy. The racing car drivers were painted by Edwin Hall for...

bibleofbritishtaste.com

The real thing, Tanya Harrod, essays on making. | Bible of British Taste

http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/the-real-thing-tanya-harrod-essays-on-making

The Next Big Thing. The real thing, Tanya Harrod, essays on making (and Peggy Angus). Tanya Harrod published ‘The Real Thing, essays on making in the modern world,’. Cutting a dash as a research student at Oxford. She grew up in this Modern Movement house in Surrey, and still describes herself as a Modernist. Always known as Billa), aesthete and historian who was briefly engaged to the poet John Betjeman, complied the Shell Guide to Norfolk for him, founded the Norfolk Churches Trust. The overmantle pict...

bibleofbritishtaste.com

John Martin Robinson, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary | Bible of British Taste

http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/john-martin-robinson-maltravers-herald-extraordinary

The Next Big Thing. John Martin Robinson, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary and architectural historian. This is the London dwelling of John Martin Robinson, aesthete, architectural historian and controversialist. He holds the offices of Maltravers Herald Extraordinary, Librarian to the Duke of Norfolk and Vice Chairman of the Georgian Group ( tho he has just resigned on a point of principle). He is also a regular contributor to. Grass Seed in June,. Here is the other end of the dining room, photographed i...

bibleofbritishtaste.com

Something for the weekend - Barbara Jones. | Bible of British Taste

http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/something-for-the-weekend-barbara-jones

The Next Big Thing. Something for the weekend – Barbara Jones. Posted in: Culture and Folk. The King Penguin Guide to the Isle of Wight. 8211; a place that I once commuted to each week – was the first book by Barbara Jones that I bought. One of her illustrations shows the Horn Room at Osborne House, with Prince Albert’s Teutonic antler furniture poised as if about to scuttle across the Brussels carpet. In its pages she showed me ‘all the qualities o’ the isle,’ like Caliban in The Tempest. I hung about i...

bibleofbritishtaste.com

Places | Bible of British Taste

http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/category/places

The Next Big Thing. In the North Kent Downs: the West Street Tickham’s last meet & Twentieth Century Castles. Hunt supporters don’t carry umbrellas. On March 16th under lead-grey skies and needle-sharp rain the West Street Tickham hunt met for the last time on the gravel in front of Doddington Place in Kent. Lachrymal weather and these rain-blotched pictures set the scene. Their ‘cracking’ Huntsman Paul Saunders was Whipper In for the East Sussex and Romney Marsh, before he joined them. At last the West ...

bibleofbritishtaste.com

In Somersetshire, kiln from John Piper, ceramics by Prue Piper. | Bible of British Taste

http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/prue-piper-2

The Next Big Thing. In Somersetshire, kiln from John Piper, ceramics by Prue Piper. His wife Janine who is also a ceramicist and their young children all live and work here. They are self-sufficient in sheep, wind-power and fruit and vegetables. This is a corner of Prue’s ceramics studio. Prue with her Mermaid jug. Corner of the kitchen-and-living room, note the two-tier ceramic snow drop ‘theatre’ by Prue on the table. Garden-gargolyle, Henry’s squirrel-proof bird feeder behind. A C17th carved wooden fi...

bibleofbritishtaste.com

Ian Archie Beck, Elton John and les Freres Perverts. | Bible of British Taste

http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/ian-archie-beck-elton-john-and-les-freres-pervertes

The Next Big Thing. Ian Archie Beck, Elton John and les Frères Perverts. A family of aesthetes live here, in Thames-side Isleworth to the west of London. These are some clues to their identity. The hanging mugs feature monochrome woodblock vignettes of the Dorset countryside by the artist, engraver and typographer Reynolds Stone. On the top row are Eric Ravilious’s Garden Implement mugs, designed for Wedgwood in its glory days. And above the book case a small leather suitcase is plastered with enigmatic ...

bibleofbritishtaste.com

The Englishman's Room, Gavin Stamp and Anti-Ugly. | Bible of British Taste

http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/the-englishmans-room-gavin-stamp-and-anti-ugly

The Next Big Thing. The Englishman’s Room, Gavin Stamp and Anti-Ugly. The architectural historian and writer Gavin Stamp. The Englishman’s Room. Three years ago we bought this standard Late Georgian Forth Rate terraced London house. Gavin Stamp wrote in 1980 in. The Englishman’s Room. This room remained undecorated as long as they lived there.]. I suppose I can imagine the buff cracked plaster looking rather Palladian and chic,. Along with Charles Moore and A.N. Wilson. The Young Fogey Handbook. 1985) by...