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Christmas at her restored farmhouse in Cumbria provides Annabel Lewis, owner of specialist haberdasher’s V V Rouleaux, with the perfect canvas on which to display her talent for artistic embellishment and dazzling decoration text lisa freedman | Photographs paul massey | locations editor liz elliot
OPPOSITE Annabel made the wreath in the diningroom window by stringing old and new crystals on to a wire frame. THIS PICTURE At the back of the house, colourful ribbons adorn a log basket. Balls of blue pine wrapped with fairy lights alternate with colourful German gazing balls up the smokehouse steps
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THIS PAGE Threads of coloured yarn are wound around slim sheets of plastic, which are then bent to create delicate decorative flowers. OPPOSITE Sevinch and her husband, Michael, stand in the workshop; to the left, strings of handmade wooden components for tassels hang beside hanks of dyed yarn
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fringe In a workshop just outside Cairo, Sevinch Deman presides over her eponymous passementerie company, preserving the traditions of this increasingly rare French craft text Emily Tobin | Photographs Sharyn Cairns
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Starting afresh Following a decision to downsize, the owners of this modern house in west London enlisted the help of decorator David Bentheim to create a stylish home from scratch Text Liz Elliot | Photographs richard powers
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Antique pieces in the sitting room include a Chinese altar table and a carved camphor cabinet, bought by the owners when they were living in Singapore. The red blown-glass lamp is by glassmakers PeĂ n Doubulyu j a n u a r y 2 0 1 4 h o u s e & g a r d e n 000
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Gabby Deeming pairs antique furniture with an eclectic assortment of glassware and fabrics in aqua and jewel tones to create schemes that pique the imagination Photographs Kristin Perers
opposite page WALLS Wallpaper mural, ‘Etched Arcadia’, 274 x 366cm, £218, at Anthropologie. FURNITURE Nineteenth-century Italian clothes rail, 238 x 88 x 47cm, £850, at Alex MacArthur. Nineteenth-century Swedish ebonisedbirch sofa, 84.5 x 166.5 x 59.5cm, £3,600, at Talisman; covered in ‘Tuileries’ (9804001), by Verel de Belval, linen mix, £231.90 a metre, at Abbott & Boyd. ACCESSORIES Gold jacket, £15, at Oxfam. Hand-dyed cotton-velvet cushions, from left: ‘Singing Bird’, ‘Ten Fathoms’ and ‘Persian Blue’, 30 x 60cm, £48 each, from Kirsten Hecktermann. Oil on canvas, The Road Home, by Tim Allen Lawson, 76 x 53cm, £23,000, at Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery. this page wALLS Paint, ‘Down Pipe’, £32.50 for 2.5 litres matt emulsion, at Farrow & Ball. FURNITURE Eighteenth-century, iron and wood fourposter bed, 245 x 198 x 189cm, £4,500, at Alex MacArthur. Fifties lacquered dressing commode (aqua), 73 x 120 x 45.5cm, £4,600, at Talisman. ACCESSORIES Bed curtain, ‘Brera Lino’ (pale rose), linen, £59 a metre, at Designers Guild. Bedlinen, ‘Crushed Linen’ (prussian blue/sea green), from £45 for a pillowcase, from Volga Linen. Throw, ‘Ecrin’ (blue), £135.10 a metre, from Casamance; trimmed in ‘Foch’ (absinthe), by Manuel Canovas, cotton, £95 a metre, at Colefax and Fowler. Silk marbled cushion, £52, at RE. Resin lamp base with yellow shade, by Marianna Kennedy, £450, at Ben Pentreath. Framed print, Green Leaves, by Paule Marrot, 140 x 110cm, £1,595, from Natural Curiosities; framed in ‘Contemporary’ (matt black), £75, from Project Framing. Small turquoise glasses, ‘Fleur-de-Lys’, £4 each, at Anthropologie. Perspex treasure box,
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