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making scents new ideas for home fragrance

FiFty yearS on We revisit a house from our archives

what to buy

exquisite botanical art bright patterned fabrics sleek modern furniture

summer and beyond How to decorate a historic cotswold the gardens holiday homes town house of glyndebourne

Rather Moorish On location in Essaouira, Gabby Deeming creates a fresh, summery look using brightly coloured fabrics and accessories against a crisp white background

Photographs Jake Curtis

Furniture Painted-metal cocktail tables with brass tops, 31 x 45cm diameter, £169 each, at Plümo. Seat cushions, ‘Aztec’ (blues, greens, orange), linen, £179.73 a metre, at Bennison Fabrics. Accessories Fabric bag with leather handle, ‘Erin’, £99, from Eva Sonaike.

Cushions, from left: ‘Flower Cut-Out’ (coral/ champignon), linen, £130 a metre, at Vanderhurd; ‘Perspectivo’ (coral/champignon), linen, £168 a metre, at Vanderhurd; ‘Savine’ (left, pimento; right, cobalt), linen, 45cm square, £45 each, including pad, at Designers Guild; ‘Petit Paravento’ (coral/natural), linen, £244 a metre, at Vanderhurd. Pink tea glasses, £6.50 each, at Petersham Nurseries. Vintage red enamelled-metal teapot, £18, at Labour and Wait. Stoneware jug, ‘Lila’ (deep sea blue), £35, at Toast. Enamelled-metal tableware (cobalt blue), by Variopinte, from £10.95 for a small dish, at The Conran Shop. For suppliers’ details, see Stockists page 000 h o u s e & g a r d e n S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 3

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A C h a u c e r’s t a l e Using the lightest of touches, the current owners redecorated their Oxfordshire home – known as Chaucer’s House – to create a comfortable interior without compromising its medieval roots, or its beautiful garden Text Alice B-B | Photographs Simon Upton | Locations editor Liz Elliot

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OPPOSITE The house (bottom) is a mix of architectural styles, with sections dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The elegant Victorian drawing room (top) is furnished with a bespoke Beaumont & Fletcher sofa and footstool. THIS PAGE Curtains in ‘Fuchsia’ by Colefax and Fowler and a French Empire chandelier bought in Le Touquet, where the owners used to have a house, add decorative touches to the seventeenthcentury dining room

Operatic abundance

Years of careful planting combined with recent improvements

ensure that the gardens at Glyndebourne create a show as spectacular as the performances inside the much-loved opera house Text Anna Pavord | Photographs Andrew Montgomery

Sheep graze beside a statue of Artemis, by the South African sculptor Deborah Bell, in the early-morning mist

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