THE BEST IN INTER NATIONA L DESIGN A N D DECOR ATION
July 2014 £3.99
PERIOD PIECE THE ART OF FINE FURNITURE MAKING
PLUS A ROMANTIC GARDEN IN FULL BLOOM
BRIGHT IDEAS
Stylish houses in England and beyond
Decoration inspiration for summer living
How to transform a spare bedroom
E leg a nt EVOLU T ION Working within the structured framework of an inherited Sussex garden, the owner has gradually developed a planting scheme that melds Italianate formality with the romance of an English flower garden
TEXT CLARE FOSTER | PHOTOGRAPHS ANDREW MONTGOMERY
A pair of towering flint obelisks set on ivy-covered plinths and topped with golden balls marks the entrance to the double borders in the garden
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HE A DI NG SOU T H Gabby Deeming recreates that relaxed summer-holiday feel with a Mediterranean-inspired selection of rattan, wood and wicker furniture PHOTOGRAPHS ADRIAN BRISCOE
FLOOR Rugs (from left): ‘Aknif’, wool, 246 x 139cm, £1,850, at Liberty; ‘Qashqai Kelim Navajo’ (behind table), cotton, 260 x 129cm, £750, at The Conran Shop; ‘Azarbijan’ (in front of table), wool, 325 x 145cm, £1,500, at The Conran Shop; and ‘Kurdi’, wool, 265 x 146cm, £1,850, at Liberty. FURNITURE French, nineteenth-century pine trestle table, 79 x 340 x 102cm, £3,500, at Appley Hoare Antiques. Rattan chair, by Giò Ponti, 127 x 80 x 92cm, £2,000, at Wren Home. French, nineteenthcentury, twig-work chair, 90 x 56 x 43cm, £795, through Drew Pritchard, at Liberty. Oak desk, ‘Chinon’, 79 x 125 x 64cm, £925, at Oka. German, twentieth-century, birch and rattan rocking chair, 97 x 56 x 80cm, £1,995, through Drew Pritchard, at Liberty. ACCESSORIES Woven-raffia and plastic pendant lights, ‘PET’, from £180 each; teak candlesticks, from £42 each; all at The Conran Shop. Beeswax candles, £6 a pair, from The London Honey Company. Aluminium-frame print, II Labirinto della Psiche, by Victor Pasmore, 95 x 150cm, £6,000, at The Conran Shop. Framed charcoal drawing, No. Fourteen, by Fieroza Doorsen, 42 x 28cm, £1,450, at Wilson Stephens & Jones. Bone-inlay box, £350; and teak-frame tray, £150; both at Pentreath & Hall. White, oiled-ash lamp (on desk), ‘Derome’, 92.5 x 50cm, £750, at Pinch. Linen cushion, ‘Maya’, £77, at Caravane. Alocasia macrorrhizos plant, £129, with terracotta pot, £59.95; assorted potted succulents, from £5.95 each; lemon tree, £189.95, with terracotta pot, £59.95; twistedstem olive tree with terracotta pot, £44.95; and straight-stem lemon tree with terracotta pot, £59.95; all at Clifton Nurseries. For 000 H O U S E A N D G A R D E N . C O . U K J U LY 2 0 1 4
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TIME and TRADITION
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CLOCKWISE FROM OPPOSITE Titchmarsh & Goodwin’s deputy workshop manager Paul Clare stands next to a mahogany serpentine sideboard. A collection of templates. A label on a wood pile at the company’s sawmill shows what size the boards are and when they were cut. At the sawmill, trees are cut and air-dried in the open. A tree butt being sawed into planks (bottom left). Cabinetmaker Adrian ‘Sid’ Reed, who has worked for the company for 47 years, fits an arm to a seventeenthcentury-style love seat
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THIS PAGE Wappenham Manor is next to the thirteenth-century church of St Mary the Virgin. OPPOSITE The walnut ‘Metamorphic Games Table’ in the hall is by furniture maker Rupert Bevan (rupertbevan.com)
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Period of adjustment Although initially reluctant to leave London, Georgie Fordham’s conversion to country life is reflected in the established feel of the Northamptonshire manor house she has updated to create a comfortable family home TEXT ALICE B-B | PHOTOGRAPHS SIMON BROWN | LOCATIONS EDITOR LAVINIA BOLTON
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FOCUS ON SHRUBS: Part Six
THIS PAGE Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Wisley Queen’ blooms in Wisley Gardens, Surrey. OPPOSITE ‘Constellation’ is a hybrid between C. kousa and C. florida
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SUMMER
stunners
Continuing her series on flowering shrubs and small trees, CLARE FOSTER looks at CORNUS and picks out her favourite summer-flowering varieties PHOTOGRAPHS MARG COUSENS
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OPEN OUTLOOK
Hidden in a leafy part of Toronto, the extended cottage that designers George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg call home mixes modern lines with an eclectic collection of treasures
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TEXT DOMINIC BRADBURY | PHOTOGRAPHS RICHARD POWERS
he house that interior designers George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg have created for themselves in Toronto is full of surprises. From the street, their home in leafy Bennington Heights almost disappears – a modest property discreetly tucked away behind a green garden. But beyond the shiny, lacquer-yellow front door, this house opens up in dramatic fashion over three floors. Most startling of all is the generous, open-plan living room on the lowerground level, where a run of floor-to-ceiling glass doors lead out to a timber deck overlooking a hidden canyon populated by leafy maples and oaks. George and Glenn’s reinvention of the Forties house has made the most of this extraordinary outlook. ‘It’s a nice, quiet enclave where we feel like we are in the country and among the trees,’ says George, who co-founded the design house Yabu 000 H O U S E A N D G A R D E N . C O . U K J U LY 2 0 1 4
Pushelberg with Glenn just over 30 years ago. ‘It is in a unique situation. All these rivers and creeks cut through the plains, which is not apparent when you walk or drive around the city, but you see it from the air when you fly into Toronto. The valley is so much part of living here, so we tried to maximise the elevation at the back of the house that faces it.’ George and Glenn have bases in Miami Beach and New York, where they have a satellite office, but Toronto is home. George was born there, while Glenn grew up in a small town not far away. They first met at design school at Ryerson University in Toronto, before launching their own practice in the city some years later. Their Canadian office is now a hub for projects that take them around the world. With Yabu Pushelberg’s demanding workload – recent projects include the Lane Crawford megastore in Shanghai, the Park Hyatt in New York and The London Edition hotel, plus co-developing the Avenue
OPPOSITE The Forties house has a modest frontage that belies the spacious interior. THIS PAGE CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE LEFT In the hall, the Fortiess curving handrail has been restored; contemporary photographs are displayed on the landing wall. The sundappled terrace has furniture by Richard Schultz. In the open-plan living room, a mix of modern art, twentiethcentury furniture and quirky objects make this a personal space, full of character; the sofa is by Vladimir Kagan and the painting on the far wall by British artist Martin McGinn
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Strength of character
At Gateley Hall in Norfolk, owner Vivien Greenock has used her expertise as an interior designer to restore the once neglected eighteenth-century house and decorate it in a quintessential English style TEXT CAROLINE CLIFTON-MOGG | PHOTOGRAPHS SIMON UPTON | LOCATIONS EDITOR LIZ ELLIOT
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The Grade I-listed, Dutch-gable house was built in 1726, replacing one that had burnt down H O U S E A N D G A R D E N . C O . U K J U LY 2 0 1 4 000