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Welcome It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to this first issue of One 17's magazine. We are architects and interior designers working with the best materials and suppliers, for clients who want the best. Notes offers you an introduction to our world.

If there is a theme linking several of the articles in the magazine it is about local people achieving success on a national or international stage and doing so in a variety of different fields. We have the Michelin starred chef now working in London but with his roots in Huddersfield.

International photographer Matthew Weinreb now based in France but who has connexions with Halifax. Many people all over the UK and beyond will know of Rita Britton’s contribution to the world of fashion from her base in Barnsley and John Pogson connects the glamour of Italian supercars with the Pennine Moors.

Talent can emerge from anywhere but often finds it necessary to relocate in order to achieve recognition. For too long there has been a tendency to believe that the best is only available in the major urban centres. It takes courage to fight the pull of capital cities and shout to the world from your home town or village, wherever that may be. Recent interest in local food and crafts is perhaps beginning to buck the trend but for the professions in particular there is a long way to go.

For us, design is about making life better. Seeing how other people and other cultures do things has always played a vital part in our education.

Within the pages of the magazine we hope you will find something to inspire, something to amuse, something that intrigues you and most of all, something that might suggest a new way of thinking about design.

If you have a project in mind that you would like us to discuss, please call Mark Lee on 01484 668000.

Notes is published by One 17 Design, The Dyehouse, Armitage Bridge, Huddersfield HD4 7PD Tel: 01484 668000 Email: solutions@one17design.com

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News from Milan

A selection from One 17’s visit to Europe’s premier furniture fair.

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Restoration man

How an historic house in the Holme Valley was brought back to life.

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In focus

Meet an international architectural photographer with Yorkshire roots.

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Getting round to change

How do you adapt a circular home to changing needs? One 17’s Mark Lee explains.

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What's cool in the kitchen

Architect Emma Cockroft spills the beans.

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Sitting comfortably?

Great design lasts. Read how British furniture manufacturer Ercol has spanned the decades.

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Rock of ages

In the first of a series of articles on building materials we look at the variety and opportunities offered by natural stone.

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We'll take Manhattan

We visit New York to bring news of the hottest interiors showrooms and the coolest restaurants.

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Heavy metal harmony

We love to find artists and craftsmen who share our passion. Read why One 17 could not wait to work with master blacksmith David Tucker.

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The power of flowers

Design is at the heart of a Pennine garden that draws visitors from across the world.

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Nomadic lifestyle

In the 1970s and 80s she brought cutting edge Japanese clothes to Barnsley. But what is Rita Britton doing now?

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Star turn

Why Yorkshire born chef Tim Allen is now one of London’s hottest Michelin chefs.

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Ski resort watch

Keen One 17 skier Mark Lee gives a guide to the snowfields.

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Whiskers on kittens

Something old, something new – some of our favourite objects.

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Checking in

Introducing some of the world’s most luxurious hotels.

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Simply red

Kevin Drayton meets the man from West Yorkshire who raced to the top of his profession.

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Canine contemplations

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News from Milan

Europe’s foremost furniture trade fair is held in the massive exhibition complex just outside Milan. One 17 visited the Salone and the city’s fringe events earlier this year looking for pieces for a new interiors project. We found a lot that we liked. Here are some highlights.

Fade Collection

Fade is a collection of vessels and furniture for the bathroom consisting of 13 pieces derived from the same motif. It includes a low ash table, an ash and copper mirror and a collection of ceramic trays and vessels in parian clay. The collaboration between Stockholm-based designers John Astbury and Kyuhyung Cho has resulted in a series of simple, pure forms that are too beautiful to be confined to the bathroom. www.johnastbury.com / www.kyuhyungcho.com

All of a Piece

This series of marble, granite and walnut modules can be interchanged using invisible magnetic connections to create a variety of tabletop combinations. The warmth of the timber offsets the cool stone and the pieces are beautifully executed. The collection is the result of a collaboration between two Rotterdam based designers: Earnest Studio and Dana Cannam Design. www.earnestly.org

Him & Her Dressing Table

Hiroshima Armchair

While Naoto Fukasawa’s Hiroshima chair for Maruni is not new, this upholstered version in a mossy green caught our eye on the Maruni stand. The tapering arms and gentle curve of the backrest make it inviting and comfortable. Simple, well-executed design at its best. www.maruni.com

Studio 248 have designed a dressing table that responds to the needs of male and female users. Simple in form, a walnut frame supports a ridged marble top. Wooden ‘islands’ designed to hold a variety of vanity products and implements then slot into the ridges. www.studio248.com

Pelle Armchair

This chair, designed by Lorenz*Katz for Zeitraum is another example of a simple concept, realised in high quality materials and beautifully detailed. The designers cite the Scandinavian classics as the inspiration behind the chair’s semicircular back rest and arm. Available in three different timbers with five leather options, our favourite has to be the solid beech frame with the Natural Jepard leather. www.zeitraum-moebel.de

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Hiroshima chair (Photography credit: Yoneo Kawabe), All of a Piece (Photography credit: Stephanie Wiegner)

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Parts of Wooldale Hall were close to collapse before Duncan Davidson stepped in to save it.

Photography, Linda Whitwam

WOOLDALE HALL RESTORING THE MEASURED ELEGANCE Wooldale Hall presents a picture of measured elegance to the Pennine hills of West Yorkshire.

Its handsome 18th century facade could not however conceal the wreck that lay behind when Duncan Davidson paid his first visit. Inadequate roof bracing had caused walls to belly alarmingly, part of the roof had collapsed and weeds sprouted from the chimney.

Inside, plasterwork had crumbled under mould while unplugged leaks had rotted window casings and floors. Small wonder the previous occupant restricted himself to living in the one room that didn’t let in water. Such a litany of defects in a Grade II listed building would be enough to make most potential buyers drive off at high speed. But not this one. Duncan had taken early retirement in 2008 from a senior role in textile management and was seeking ‘a challenging project.’ He found one.

Unlike some amateur property restorers, whose optimism exceeds their common sense, he had gained some idea of what to expect through experience of industrial construction projects and by building two homes.

An advert for Wooldale Hall had caught his eye once before but the price was unrealistic. When he learned it had been reduced, he paid a visit and, despite the dilapidation, or possibly because of it,

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he fell in love. “It was beautiful. I thought ‘what a fabulous place’. I knew it would be a mammoth task but I could see it had potential.” An optimistic estate agent estate agent told him to expect to spend about £170,000 on repairs. “I thought ‘that’s a joke’. I knew it would take a lot more but it seemed a wonderful project to take on.

“Lynne, my wife, was horrified at first but I told her it would be all right.” That may rank as the biggest understatement in the history of this Holme Valley village with its two churches, pub, former weavers’ cottages and a road called West End that leads to nowhere. To walk around the house with Duncan is to hear an absorbing tale of three centuries.

Its history begins with the rear of the property, which dates from 1650 or earlier, takes in the Georgian addition at the front and continues with the subtleties of the 2010 restoration. Resisting the impulse to reach for a sledge hammer, Duncan’s first act was to find an architect who specialised in the restoration of listed buildings. The search led to Stuart Beaumont of the Huddersfield practice, One17AD. After a full survey and tendering, the contract for restoration was awarded to William Anelay of York whose team began work in 2009.

“The place was in a terrible state,” says Stuart. “Some of the walls were 18 inches out of true and foliage was growing out of the roof.” Builders removed »

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Restored sash windows and paneling

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the slates to create a maze of scaffolding inside and out to stabilise the building. Courses of failing walls were marked, dismantled and rebuilt.

Stones beyond repair were remade by on-site masons.

Rotten structural timbers were identified and replaced, like for like, and steelwork added to overcome the deficiency of the roof’s original design. Specialist joiners crafted the facade’s elegant windows in period style, fitting them with cylinder glass made on old machines in Eastern Europe to impart the vitality and character missing from modern glazing. Internal walls were restored in traditional lath and plaster and carpenters salvaged sufficient original floorboards for two rooms.

Douglas fir was used in making windows and doors as the Davidsons research indicated that oak was inauthentic. Box locks and handles on the doors

BEFORE: Rotten windows, and collapsing ceilings

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- bronze for the rear part of the house were sourced from a range produced by a company in the Midlands.

Work moved swiftly and Wooldale Hall was ready for the Davidsons and their youngest daughter to occupy in December 2010. To sit today in the kitchen, a welcoming, settled space warmed by an Aga and replete with painted cabinets, contemporary hob and hand-made table, it is difficult to believe that most of the restoration was completed less than four years ago.

While work was in progress, Duncan and Lynne turned their thoughts to internal decoration.

Furniture, lots of it, had to be bought, bathrooms fitted, fabrics chosen, colour schemes agreed. The calm restraint of the interior owes much to the choice of colour. Rather than select a scheme to reflect how the

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SOME OF THE WALLS WERE 18 INCHES OUT OF TRUE AND FOLIAGE WAS GROWING OUT OF THE WALLS.

house might have been decorated at a particular point in its history, they decided to regard it as a blank canvas.

So the kitchen doors are finished in dark green and the walls in Linnet White, a Dulux heritage shade. “At first I wanted to use limewash but people with experience of it said it was hard to live with, so we used an emulsion with high porosity.” For the front rooms, our research showed that the earliest Georgian colour schemes employed pale stone and natural colours and that they would use the same colours throughout. Again we settled for Dulux Heritage colours with York White on the woodwork, Candle Cream walls and a white ceiling.

These colours provide a good backdrop for the furniture and the artwork.” One suspects that while the restoration of the fabric was an enjoyable discipline, furnishing it has been a private pleasure.

For all the research that went into the bones of the building, an equal amount went into the art and furniture. Here’s a longcase clock, and here’s another.

Walking through the house the eye alights on polished bureaux, antique tables, chairs, drawers, cabinets, dressers, mirrors, old clocks. And where would a 18th century bedroom be without a 18th century four-poster bed?

“I started collecting furniture before the project was completed and I’ve since acquired more pieces. I would not have felt comfortable with putting modern pieces in this house. I spotted this table, for example, on an antiques website,” says Duncan.

In spite of the number and quality of period pieces, this looks and feels like a home rather than a museum or a period set, a result of Duncan’s philosophy from the outset. “Our objective when we bought the house was that its presentation should be as if it had been continuously occupied since it was built, that it had been well looked after and maintained, that modern facilities were installed as they became available, and that furniture and furnishings were upgraded over time while keeping the best of the old pieces.”

Wooldale Hall is on the market as Duncan embarks on his next project, a new and smaller house in the Holme Valley. He is already in discussion over the plans with Stuart Beaumont. Was it all worthwhile? “Oh yes,” he says.

We got this place to where we wanted it to be. We’ll be sad to leave.”

The architect’s plans, the clients’ dreams and the craftsmen’s art come together in a uniquely satisfying way in this sturdy home. Even the contemporary canopy, erected to create an outdoor space by the kitchen door, co-exists happily with the 17th century jamb stones.

Any large project brings frustrations, and this one was no exception. They arose sometimes over locating materials, sometimes over the interpretation by the authorities of the arcane regulations that govern alterations to a listed building. With this grand project complete, the time has come to move on.

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He shoots,

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A job at a gallery in New York brought Matthew Weinreb’s wandering career into focus.

Robert Cockroft meets the international photographer

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Matthew Weinreb is in West Yorkshire to take pictures of an exceptional house in a rural valley. What will this renowned international architectural photographer be like? Dressed head to toe in regulation black? Austere and moody, barking orders to compliant assistants who lug his battery of equipment around?

Ditch the stereotypes. Matthew, in technicolour T shirt, bounds up, hand outstretched. He’s warm, friendly, funny. Travels alone. Equipment?

A few digital cameras, a hand-held LED and an iPad. His home is in south-west France, where he sings in a band. At the invitation of exacting architects he travels the world to capture images of extraordinary buildings and spaces: homes, offices, hotels, theatres, concert halls, bridges, landscapes.

It’s quite a responsibility. Clients, designers and builders collaborate in a costly creation and Matthew is tasked with conveying its personality without flaw. Before we meet, I review a selection from his portfolio where it’s quickly evident that his is an eye that can turn the apparently unpromising into the utterly beguiling. He’s a master of the rich and luminous and of the soaring line.

A stern warehouse of an office jumps to life under his lens. A railway concourse turns sculptural, a bar morphs into a cathedral, a laboratory, possibly for the first time, acquires a sexy glow. What, then, does he aim to capture?

A physical record of a building or a scene through the honesty of the lens?

“Fuck honesty,” he says. “I’m not a purist photographer. My photography is all about romance, but then life is all about romance. When I take a picture, I want it to capture a romantic aspect of whatever I’m photographing.” He’s certainly unafraid of warming the sharp edges, cool light, chalky finishes and clinical detail of some contemporary spaces to bring out tone and atmosphere, though he refuses to retouch an image to fundamentally change it. His delight in revealing the spirit of a place is clearly shared by clients, among them »

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the Design Council, English Heritage, Eurostar, Getty Images, Country Life, Richard Rogers Associates and, on this latest residential project, the Huddersfield architectural practice, One17AD. The path to his career began in Halifax, the birthplace of his father, Ben, who became a renowned seller of antiquarian architectural books in London. Matthew was exposed to architecture from birth but was not drawn to it. He left school at 15 with few qualifications and no career in mind. After a variety of jobs, he went to New York in 1981 to work at the Cityana photographic Gallery, a specialist exhibitor of images of Manhattan. It was a turning point.

In those days, his tools were a 35mm Pentax LX and a Mamiya RB67, a medium format, single-lens reflex camera.

Returning to London, he began his first independent commercial job taking photographs for his father’s catalogues, a discipline that introduced him to a network of architects. Work in that field was the route to his biggest break: winning the European Architecture Photographer of the Year Award which led to an invitation to publish a series of books, among them portraits of London and Paris.

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"Inspired by the city, its architecture, drama and light, I started taking my own pictures.

After a while, I thought those aren’t much worse than the ones in the gallery. If they can do it, so can I"

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His thoughts on his work – he cites as influences the American Ansel Adams and the Frenchman Henri Cartier-Bresson – are unaccompanied by dogmatism. Digital cameras? He loves them.

For years he used that prince of film cameras, a Linhof Technikardan, but happily switched to a Canon Eos 1D, a four-megapixel single-lens reflex, launched in 2001. “I used to carry masses of lights, largely because film was so sensitive, now I just use a hand-held LED for interior shots.

I’ve also started to use a wifi connected iPad to control the camera, which has transformed things. The iPad gives me a bigger image and I can focus and shoot using it.”

"Some architects want me to do a photo-shoot just as a visual record of a job but I want them to look at my pictures and say wow, that’s what I built" He enjoys photographing homes for the personal nature of the job and it is clear from the results on his iPad of today’s photo-shoot that he sees things that the ordinary eye misses.

He underplays this, saying that he gets a feeling for how a photo-shoot should go simply by looking around. But the rhythm of his pictures – the clarity, detail, harmony and joy in the unexpected – contradicts his modesty. His is a rare talent.

All images © 2014 Matthew Weinreb

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Getting round to change How do you keep an iconic home fresh whilst retaining the essence of the design?

We talked to the architect and owner, Mark Lee

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Consider: you are an architect who has designed and lives in one of the best-known private houses in Yorkshire. At the time you designed it you had two young children and were struggling to establish your own business. Nearly twenty years later things, inevitably, have changed. How do you adapt an iconic building that has featured in magazines and on television programmes over those years to retain the essence of the design and yet keep it fresh and alive? Oh yes, and the house also happens to be round…

Mark Lee, partner at One 17 Design lives in The Roundhouse, a converted water tank at Hall Bower near Huddersfield, under the gaze of Castle Hill, another local landmark. He is 20

surprised that anyone might think it difficult to adapt such a building to changing needs: “At the time we first moved in, the building probably looked finished to most people, but there were still masses of things I wanted to do.” explained Mark. “Alterations that were necessary because of our changing circumstances then brought on a whole new set of opportunities.”

People have often commented how difficult it must be adapting to a circular home, but he has never seen this as an issue: “The business of the building being round is no big deal really. It’s just a different geometry to squares and rectangles but it demands its own logic.

Inevitably I’ve ended up designing quite a lot of bespoke furniture over the years but that’s what I’m trained to do!”

Many spaces have undergone radical changes since the house was first occupied.

Mark’s wife Caroline, who is Educational Coordinator for One 17 ED, the educational publishing arm of the group, remembers the day that the bespoke bed and built-in curved wardrobes in the master bedroom were installed. “It completely changed the nature of the space and took a while to get used to” she recalls “I felt strange lying in bed facing ‘the wrong way’ but at the end of the day the space worked so much better than before it wasn’t a problem for long.”

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As something of a workaholic, Mark later found space to create a study area on the upper floor where he could develop ideas that struck whilst out of the office.

The circular form enabled him to create an internal window giving a visual link between the study and the main living areas, whilst keeping distance and the necessary privacy.

Twelve years after moving in, he was ready to add a garage to the house. Rather than being a simple utility building, the finished product is a tour de force of architectural design. “Whilst the garage has a rectangular plan, the curved roof relates it to the curves of the main house. The detailing of the stone and leadwork has been treated just as carefully as if it were a much bigger building.”

replanning and refitting the kitchen soon.”

Every few years a new audience seems to discover the house. Caroline is well used to parties of strangers wandering around and has welcomed visitors from various parts of the globe.

“When you have a home as interesting as this one, people are inevitably curious.

Welcoming people who’ve come to see the building rather than you goes with the territory.”

Although still instantly recognisable today as the building that first appeared in the architectural press two decades ago, the Roundhouse has changed over the years and will probably continue to do so.

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“There’s no need yet, but I’ve done loads of sketches exploring how we might extend the house” admits Mark. “The challenge of extending a circle really appeals to me.”

Caroline says that it is often technology that drives change: “When we first moved in I thought we had the last word in lighting for example. But developments in led lights, wireless controls and smart technology made it look outdated surprisingly quickly.

There’s always something new. We get some of our best ideas travelling abroad and bring them back to use at home.”

The best architecture has the ability to appear both completely resolved yet at the same time capable of change. The Roundhouse is one small but perfectly formed example.

The quality of this little gem was recognised in an award from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2008 – just as the Roundhouse itself had been some years earlier. “ We think it’s the smallest building ever to win such an award”, said Mark with obvious pleasure.

Another change was wrought on the lower floor, where the children’s bedrooms had first been planned. As Mark explained, “At first Matthew and Katie needed playroom type bedrooms with fairly basic ensuites.

As they grew older, we made changes to their rooms to reflect this. Eventually, when university loomed for them, I had the chance to remodel the area and build a new family/guest bathroom.” Inserting a bathroom can be difficult enough in an ordinary house, what with water and drainage pipes to accommodate. Surely it was even more difficult in a round house?

“I’m a great believer in planning for the unknown,” said Mark “so I had designed the house with possible change in mind.

Incorporating proper service routes rather than just running pipes under floorboards and down walls makes adding in a bathroom far easier than it might otherwise be. As far as dealing with the circular geometry, it gives you a discipline but also results in spaces with a character all their own.”

So has the Roundhouse gone as far as it can now? “Caroline and I have often talked about moving, or more accurately about finding somewhere to build afresh, but so far we’ve managed to adapt the building to meet our needs without the upheaval of a moving. My next project will probably be images © 2014 Matthew Weinreb

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Sie Matic kitchen by Stuart Frazer

Of all the rooms in the house, the character of the kitchen has changed most over the past 20 years. Emma Cockroft considers the design of our favourite space

Keeping the Kitchen Cool Walls have come down and extensions have gone up to create more fluid, light-filled spaces. But they have to work harder than the conventional 20th century layout where the door could be closed on a kitchen overflowing with dirty pans as guests sauntered into the candlelit dining room.

There is still a place for separate dining rooms for those occasions that demand a more elaborate or atmospheric setting but many homes have sacrificed them for a larger kitchen and open-plan arrangement. The kitchen table these days not only fulfils its traditional role of accommodating daily meals and the children’s homework, it also has to smarten itself up to cope with entertaining guests and more formal festivities.

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Poggenpohl kitchen by Poggenpohl Leeds

A quiet revolution has taken place over the last 20 years in our homes. The once crisp distinction between the functionality of the kitchen, the formality of the dining room and the intimacy of the living room has become blurred.

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Kitchen design is about more than planning the layout of units and appliances and choosing the finishes of doors and worktops.

Before investing in a new kitchen, you need to examine how the space works for you. Kitchens often become corridors, with doors to the garden, utility rooms and dining / living spaces opening from them. Some minor changes to the spatial arrangement can make them more efficient by channelling movement away from the main cooking and preparation areas.

Good levels of natural light make a huge difference to the look and feel of a kitchen. Even a modest single storey extension offers the opportunity to introduce glazing in the roof in the form of a lantern, ridge lights or simple rooflights. Glazed doors opening on to a garden or terrace create a greater sense of space.

The combined cooking/dining/living functions of the room require an intelligent approach to the layout of the units. Islands with some form of screening - such as a breakfast bar - can be useful for concealing the debris created in the preparation of a meal. It has become increasingly common to have two dishwashers installed to avoid cluttering the pristine lines of a kitchen with dirty dishes.

Thinking beyond the kitchen units, pantries are incredibly useful for reducing clutter. Columns, furniture and steps can be used to help define spaces without compromising light and the sense of

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openness. In these open plan spaces, good extraction is crucial. The technological advances and elegant design of built-in ceiling and downdraft extractors mean they no longer intrude on the kitchen.

It is easy to be seduced by the look of a sleek run of units along the back wall of a kitchen but their practicality must be questioned.

Here, form really must follow function. Any keen cook respects the principle of the work triangle – the positioning of the fridge, sink and hob at the three points of a triangle. While the recent trend has been for wall-to-wall tall units, they should not be at the cost of worktop space which, no matter how much you have, never seems enough.

When it comes to finishes, be wary of trends. A kitchen is one of the largest investments you will make in your home. A thoughtfully designed, well engineered kitchen will last for decades so it really isn’t the place to be bold with colour. At the risk of sounding boring – greys, whites and neutrals are timeless and can be revitalised with different wall colours and accessories. Gloss lacquered cabinets have been in vogue for several years but they show their weakness in the presence of sticky little hands. Hand-painted finishes offer more flexibility in the longer term but generally lend themselves to period properties and lack the strong lines of some more contemporary designs. Consider the colours and materials of the units and worktops as part of the wider palette of finishes used throughout the house to create a balanced, harmonious interior. »

In–Toto kitchen by In–Toto Batley

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Case Study: Kitchen extension, West Yorkshire Mark Lee, partner at One 17 Design was commissioned to remodel and extend a period home to form a new kitchen and games room. His design involved converting the existing garage block to accommodate the games room and linking it to the main house with a quadrant housing the new kitchen.

Light floods into the space through a series of roof lights and glazed doors on the curved face of the extension. The island and breakfast bar separates the working area of the kitchen from the route from the main living areas through to the games room.

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Four in a row When estate agency owner Andrew Regan from Regan & Hallworth installed a kitchen in his new home,

He adds, “I like Stuart Frazer as it has a ‘can do’ attitude from the minute you walk into the showroom right through to the end of the installation.”

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Andrew and his wife Linda are keen skiers and one of their favourite skiing resorts was the inspiration for their new kitchen, forming the basis of their design brief. The couple wanted a Verbier chalet look and designer Paul Rigby certainly delivered this. The kitchen has a unique slate feature wall that makes a stunning backdrop whilst the dark units and floor create a cosy, warm, lodge-like feel.

Andrew says, “I sell beautiful houses and I know how important the kitchen is. SieMatic is the best that there is. The brand is synonymous with luxury and quality and Stuart Frazer always delivers design and service wise.”

By combining several rooms into one, the kitchen makes a fabulous space for both relaxing and entertaining. A bespoke bar area complete with chalet-style fire adjoins the kitchen to create a welcoming focus.

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The utility room with its identical units extends the Verbier theme and provides additional storage space.

Another reason Andrew chose Stuart Frazer is because of the large range of appliances it offers.

The new kitchen incorporates the very latest Miele appliances including two ovens and a deep warming drawer that doubles as a slow cooker. An ice-making machine and wine cooler are also integral to the kitchen. Both Andrew and Linda are keen cooks and love the various appliances and how functional the kitchen is overall.

For Andrew, there is no serious alternative to Stuart Frazer and SieMatic. “I’ve seen masses of kitchens throughout my years as an estate agent but I’ve always been a fan of the SieMatic brand and Stuart Frazer. When it comes to my own kitchen, it has to be Stuart Frazer.”

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Three Wise Men pendants Channels £299-390 each (in walnut) www.channelsdesign.com

Hanging Loose Pendants are wonderful for creating a sense of rhythm in a space, whether over a dining table, breakfast bar or along a corridor. They generally work best in a group at a consistent height - or they may be varied for a more informal look. Metal, glass or timber? We pick some current favourites.

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A brand of furniture that your parents and grandparents owned is again becoming desirable, writes James Howard

Keeping your chairs at home The happy story of Ercol’s resurgent popularity is one of good design and quality British manufacturing. A household name since the fifties, the furniture maker has been through its share of ups and downs, appearing to flounder for new design direction in the nineties and losing some of its credentials as a stylish, sought-after brand. It also suffered heavily like most UK industry from cheaper imports.

The problem with Ercol furniture was that it’s too well built. People would pass it on to their children and even grandchildren (if they wanted it) and never need to buy more. There is no inbuilt obsolescence - the hallmark of modern consumerism. In the nineties, post IKEA Britain became a sad place for British furniture design, as we were persuaded to ‘chuck out our chintz’ in place of minimal Scandinavian interiors. »

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In itself this was not a bad thing; IKEA’s intention is to allow everyone to be able to access stylish designer homes. The major downside, though, is that it turns furnishing your home into a fashion statement, making furniture cheap and allowing people to change their wardrobes as often as they change their wardrobe.

When disposable fashion ideas are applied to furnishings the result is chipboard, selfassembly and piles of broken furniture going to landfill. It seems ludicrous that people would trade in something built to last for something cheap and disposable, which is why it has been a relief to watch the tide turn

against such unsustainable practices.

In the last five years Lucian Ercolani’s iconic designs from the post-war years have steadily regained their popularity. They now sell in major retailers such as John Lewis, Heal’s and The White Company and the company is reportedly making some pieces for Sir Jonathan Ive, the man behind Apple’s aesthetics.

Ercol’s order books began to fill as part of a wider retrospective trend and amid a thriving second-hand market for the furniture your parents/grandparents tried to give to you but that you didn’t want. An economic downturn

caused people to reassess where they spent their money and the value of the possessions they chose. As austerity bit, the British public tightened their belts and revived wartime mottos such as make-do and mend.

The beginnings of this ‘vintage’ trend are rooted in this search for a more humble time where things were made to last and the market for second hand ‘vintage’ Ercol has been an important driving force behind the brand’s renewed desirability. Although the word fashion implies some kind of sell-bydate, we should take heart in the fact that the current fashion is to think practically, sustainably and long term.

Furniture designer James Howard runs Lost and Found in Holmfirth, a company specialising in vintage and refurbished furniture.

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It is that very diversity that also makes stone such a wonderful material for interiors. That and the fact that it is natural, requires relatively little energy to produce, will last for centuries and can be recycled again and again. How many other building materials tick so many boxes?

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Stone is generally thought of as a material to be used outside the home but it can be equally effective when it is brought in from the cold, writes Kevin Drayton.

Stone features heavily in the history of British buildings. Blessed as we are in this country with a rich variety of construction stone, the different characteristics and colours of our native varieties have over time become associated with different parts of the kingdom. Think of golden Cotswold stone, the hard grey granite so suited to dour Scottish castles or the soft creamy elegance of Portland limestone.

Our built heritage would be all the poorer without the differences in what is essentially a single material.

Perhaps you think of stone as hard and cold – not characteristics normally associated with interiors; but if you are considering underfloor heating in your home, then stone is one of the best options for a floor finish. It offers the perfect combination of warmth, durability and heat retention – allowing the heat stored in the material to be released slowly into the building. If you are lucky enough to have a swimming pool, a stone surround combined with underfloor heating provides comfort and a quick drying floor – perfect.

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Stone can add nobility and grandeur to an interior that is hard to achieve with other materials. Classical columns, friezes and cornices in real stone are straight out of the top drawer. Timber and plaster struggle to match the sheer tactility of the material – definitely cashmere to their lambswool.

When it comes to a grand staircase stone wins over timber every time, not least because I’ve never found a stone staircase yet that creaks! »

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Close textured, fine grained stones such as Portland can be worked to sensuous, liquid curves, suited to the most indulgent interior. Imagine a bedroom interior where smooth unyielding stone is combined with satin, silk and fur…. and an improving book or two of course. As with all materials, the key to success in using stone in interiors is to match the characteristics of the material to the situation. Soft porous limestones can look fabulous but will not take kindly to food and wine stains. It is possible to seal stone although you should check first that the treatment does not alter the look unacceptably. I’m sure you will have seen sandstone floors that look as though they have been shrink wrapped in plastic. It is desecration of the worst kind. As a natural material, stone has the ability to breathe and in today’s eco friendly interiors this is a boon. Sealing the surface can be akin to putting a plastic bag over your head and is not to be recommended.

Historically, unless you were particularly wealthy, you used the stone that was local to your area. Thus you will find slate details used in parts of Wales and Cumbria that would be fashioned in sandstone or timber in other areas of the country. A thatched cottage that sits comfortably in an Essex village would look wrong in Northumberland. But when it comes to interiors, the world is very much your quarry. Fantasy, function and fun can all play a part in the choice of materials for an interior. Today we have not only our native stones, which goodness knows provide a huge variety, but we can also access stone from across the globe with Spanish slate, French limestone and Chinese sandstones featuring regularly in British interiors. Get the advice of an expert. Understanding stone takes time and there are many harsh lessons tom be learned. Talk to someone who has experienced the knocks on your behalf and who can recommend the right material for you.

So to sum up: don’t forget stone when it comes to interiors. Match the type of stone to the situation and don’t forget the range of finishes you can achieve with differing effects, from rough textured patterns to finely polished surfaces. Finally, a word of advice: relax. One of the great joys of stone in its myriad manifestations is its longevity. It has been around for far longer than you and it will probably be around for generations after. It will age, it will patinate. Stone wears its history with dignity and stone is often at its chicest when faintly shabby. It is one material that definitely doesn’t need a label to impress.

Traditionally an external material, it can raise an interior to a different level.

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Europe has much to offer in furniture and lighting but it’s often necessary to look further afield. One17 Interior designer Emma Cockroft went to New York seeking pieces for a project.

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The New York showroom of this Toronto-based company is on the fifth floor of a building on West 28th Street in the recently coined ‘NoMad’ district. The light-flooded space is beautifully curated by Filemon Rodriguez and the rest of the team with furniture, lighting and accessories by Christophe Delcourt, Yabu Pushelberg and other innovative designers. A haven of pastel shades, pale timbers and fresh flowers, it feels a mile away from the bustle of the street below.

145 West 28th Street, New York, NY 10001 (212) 453-9880 avenue-road.com

Aero What doesn’t this Broome Street gem stock? The atmospheric space is crammed with lovingly ‘refurbished’ vintage pieces and new designs from Aero Studios. Imaginative lighting illuminates beautiful bedding, unusual textiles, vintage aeroplane models, antique hand-carved chess sets and eclectic tableware.

419 Broome Street New York, NY 10013 (212) 966-1500 aerostudios.com

Ralph Pucci Ralph Pucci’s New York space is more modernist art gallery than furniture showroom. The stark white walls let the collections of both contemporary and vintage furniture and lighting take centre stage, with the Manhattan skyline forming the backdrop. The West 18th St gallery is split over two floors, and offers an unexpected vantage point of the city. French designers are well represented with stand-out pieces by Patrick Naggar and Paul Mathieu in their collections for Pucci.

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BDDW BDDW’s designer and founder, Tyler Hays is producing pieces unlike anything coming out of Europe. His furniture has scale and substance, but is detailed and finished with delicacy. Think tree trunks sliced, crafted and polished to form beautiful dining tables – the diverging grain of the timber held together with bronze butterfly joints.

BDDW’s furniture is made in Hays’ studio in Philadelphia, and it has American soul.

The SoHo showroom also displays lighting designer, Lindsey Adelman’s wonderful branching bubble light fittings. And if you’re wondering why there are arrows sticking out of the walls, it’s not a new design trend. BDDW hosts a fortnightly archery evening for other local businesses.

5 Crosby Street NEW YORK, NY 10013 (212) 625 1230 bddw.com

Fort Street Studio Fort Street Studio was set up almost 20 years ago by artists Janis Provisor and Brad Davis. They exchanged their canvases for carpet and set about creating hand-knotted wild silk carpets based on watercolours. The designs vary between smudged abstract shapes in bold shades and delicate tracery in neutral tones. The colours and patterns of the rugs change as you walk around them depending upon the nap of the silk. Viewing the rugs is an experience in itself as the team walk backwards and forwards hauling the carpets back to reveal another artwork beneath.

The Cluett Building 22 W 19th St, Suite 5N New York, NY 10011 +1 212-925-5383 fortstreetstudio.com

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Holly Hunt This East 58th Street showroom definitely has an Upper East Side feel to it. Hunt’s collection of furniture and lighting is carefully balanced, so that while there’s a sense of luxury and opulence, the overall look is understated and elegant. Hunt draws on American and French designers to sit alongside their own label collection. The lighting collection carries enchanting pieces by the artist Alison Berger, crafted from glass – every shade a piece of art in itself. The space and its contents can’t fail to inspire you to create a more chic, sophisticated interior.

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The little sister to three Michellin-starred Jean Georges up on Park Central West is housed in the basement of home furnishings emporium ABC Carpet & Home. The restaurant is more of a draw than the store, which has some bright sparks in the form of rugs and accessories. ABC Kitchen serves light, fresh dishes - welcome palate-cleansers after some of the city’s more traditional fare. The dining space is more inspiring than any of the room sets upstairs with its white furniture interspersed with rustic timber sculptures, lit by industrial pendants and white chandeliers.

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Marea This restaurant at the bottom of Central Park has a well-composed menu of fish and shellfish dishes, including some superb pasta dishes.

The atmosphere is more hushed than buzzing, but the quality of the food and service more than makes up for it.

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Forging a future for an ancient craft David Tucker creates striking pieces of art in a former cow shed in rural Derbyshire. Robert Cockroft meets a master blacksmith

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Goliath is growing old and has his foibles, but David Tucker is fond of him. “It’s like a friendship. We have a close working relationship,” he says. And with that he rests a square bar of shimmering hot mild steel across the old boy and starts to shape it, to the accompaniment of rhythmic tapping.

Goliath, tall, sturdy and built in the 1930s, is a power hammer, a vital accessory of the modern blacksmith. A hundred years ago his job would have been done by a ‘striker’, an apprentice wielding a sledge-hammer. The power hammer, though, is more reliable, accurate and productive than the average apprentice and can accomplish its task with surprising finesse.

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David coaxes it to life with the foot control and it responds with a gentle tap-tap. The metal needs to be made longer and thinner at an optimum temperature - it’s known technically as ‘drawing down’ - so the speed must increase. Goliath goes into a frenzy, leaving regular indentations along the surface of the bar. In view of the huge pressure exerted, the result looks almost delicate.

Delicacy? What place has that in a forge? Wasn’t the blacksmith of old the epitome of heavy metal, mending carts, making tools, fashioning weapons, shoeing horses, repairing farm machinery? The language of the forge conveys the craft’s historic forcefulness: »

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fire, blast, vice, anvil, hammer, punch, flatter. Yet there’s something different about this one in rural Derbyshire and it’s not just that it is cleaner, lighter and tidier than many.

David is one of a new generation of designer blacksmiths for whom art is as important as craft.

Examples of his meticulous work are dotted around this former cowshed. Despite the elemental nature of the material, life and movement abound, a paradox he clearly enjoys. So a sturdy base supports tapering columns from which droop fragile eucalyptus leaves. A zig-zag gate has such rhythm it seems to be dancing. A large candelabra raises elegant arms. Poppies sprout from a partfinished war memorial.

Originality and vitality catch the eye at every turn. The process begins with a commission which may range from gates to grates, altar rails to estate railings. “Everything in my design comes

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from the site where the finished work will be,” he says. “I like to see the setting and talk to the client about my design philosophy. Some of them want flowers and leaves, others want something more contemporary. I’ll then take pictures, make drawings and draw a design.”

When a church requested a pair of gates, David’s starting point was a gothic arch on the building.

When a client in Yorkshire asked for gates, metals joints were folded in a warp and weft pattern to represent the area’s textile heritage. Each piece that’s been heated, hammered, bent and burnished is unique and, as he refuses to turn out copies, they come at a price. A single garden gate might cost £2,500 compared with £40 from a DIY superstore, he says. On the other hand, a store-bought wrought iron gate (a misnomer, it will be made of steel) will have been cold-pressed by machine and welded, possibly in China, rather than hand-forged with a little help from Goliath.

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If, as David suggests, 99 per cent of wrought iron work comes these days from fabricators, where do the blacksmiths come from? In his case, the unlikely answer is from art college. Having left school at 16, he began to train as an apprentice engineer but failed to see a future in it. So via a foundation course, he enrolled at West Surrey College of Art and Design which happened to be offering the country’s first degree in blacksmithing.

By similar good fortune, he met his wife Sara there. She’s also his creative partner, adding graceful shadings to his drawings, helping in the forge and finishing objects with a graphite-rich paint devised by her husband to enhance their texture. It’s another of the details that mark a serious craftsman.

His pieces teem with them. To avoid an ugly, unauthentic welded joint for example, he will painstakingly create tenons to join one end of a metal bar to another. To achieve the best effect, he will punch a hole in yellow-hot steel rather than drill one. The casual visitor might wonder how this precision is achieved given the seeingly lumpish combination of 1,000 degrees of heat, steel and hammer. How for example does he set about creating a piece of work?

He cheerfully admits that on occasions he’s not sure. “When I design something I have to hope I can do it. I know I’ll get there in the end but that uncertainty, that need to solve problems along the way, is part of the excitement. I will never get rich but as a career it gives me everything, freedom, creativity, satisfaction - and these are interesting times for blacksmiths When I came back to Derbyshire 30 years ago, there was no interest in anything that wasn’t traditional. It seemed to be a dying craft. Now, though, it’s moving on and there are fresh opportunities for interesting work.”

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An inspirational headmaster and a window box seeded Carol Puszkiewicz passion for horticulture. Robert Cockroft visits a local garden of national significance.

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Green and pleasant: Prospect Cottage garden with Carol Puszkiewicz, right.

Carol Puszkiewicz opens the door of her cottage sporting a black eye. A combination of tiredness and heat has caused her to tumble in the garden, yet her first concern is for the vegetable she crushed.

“I keeled over on to a courgette plant. It was a huge one so I was as mad as heck,” she says.

Elevating the welfare of plants over your own is the mark of a true gardener, not that her seriousness or skill is in any doubt.

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In spite of its exposed, windy location - the M62 rises towards Lancashire only a couple of hundred yards away - it is recognised as outstanding by the National Gardens Scheme.

Carol, a dedicated garden visitor, was invited to join the scheme eight years ago. It was founded in 1927 with the aim of opening gardens of quality and character to the public for charity. It has succeeded by raising millions.

Famously sharp-eyed county organisers are responsible for vetting potential gardens to ensure they can sustain a visitor’s interest for at least 45 minutes. One measure of the Puszkiewiczs’ achievement is that 20 years ago, the garden’s interest would have been exhausted in seconds. Little but weeds flourished here.

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Carol’s early story is of a childhood enjoying the Derbyshire countryside, of an encouraging family and of an inspirational junior school headteacher who instilled in her a love of plants, trees and wildlife. And then a move to Yorkshire. “I came to Huddersfield when I was about 12 or 13 and it was a massive shock. In those days it was dirty and quite black,” she says.

Secondary education was followed by jobs at an accountancy firm and a building society and, in 1982, marriage. “That’s what put me back on track. We only had a small house but one of the first things we did was to put up window boxes.”

Next, a move to a cottage in the village of Outlane and then in 1994 to a larger one in the same row with a long, narrow garden. Contents: three diseased apple trees, a peony and an oriental poppy.

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Today gravel paths guide the visitor on a winding, scented adventure through shaded growth, sunlit herbaceous borders, past pond, bog and a kitchen garden with herbs and heritage vegetables. A raised wooden pathway leads on to a summerhouse, wildflower meadow and woodland glade.

Colour and texture, by turns subtle and dramatic, constantly arrest the eye: here a graceful candelabra primula, here an architectural campanula lactiflora, there an avenue of breezeblown lavender Hidcote.

The balance and flow suggest a designer of clear ideals. No one, surely, would create a chamomile - lawned secret area or a chocolate border by accident? Yet the effortlessly natural appearance belies this amateur gardener’s remarkable gift

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The first arduous task was to strim and dig over the large area. Happily, a local farmer was able to provide ton upon ton of horse manure for the malnourished soil. “The work was done a step a time,” says Carol exercising a talent for understatement.

Hedges were planted for structure and as protection against wind and cold, a pond was dug and borders established. Plants were bought, begged and divided but always with a purpose.

“I’m not impulsive when I buy plants, I know where they are going to go. So for example I chose white plants for the secret garden where I wanted to create a cool, calming space.”»

"I’m not a designer but I have always loved art as well as plants and I knew exactly what I wanted when I first saw the garden. In my mind I wanted to create a journey so that you would find things as you went along so it was not just about the look but the feel."

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Birds and mammals are other beneficiaries of this thoughtful ecology. Shrews, mice, hedgehogs, weasels, voles, owls, toads, frogs and foxes are regular visitors and insects clearly appreciate the presence of their own sedum-roofed, five-star bug hotel. By the same token, the area echoes to birdsong.

The busy time is over now. The parties of visitors, some from Australia, many from Germany, have gone, £2,000 has been raised for charity and plants are being pruned and next season’s developments mulled over. Many gardeners might resent curious hordes tramping around their carefully tended plots, but not this one. “I love sharing the garden and the people who come are so lovely and caring.”

Besides remarking that she’s in the garden ‘all the time’, Carol doesn’t seem to count the hours or the cost of this glorious enterprise. “I suppose we could have had holidays abroad but we chose to put our money into this,” she says. “I’m not rich but it’s a small price to pay as we both love being in the garden.

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“The thing is that gardens are good for you, they help to reduce stress.

They are not things that you spend your time looking back on because you are always planning ahead. It’s an optimistic pastime.”

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Rita Britton surprised the world of fashion design when she closed her boutique following a stroke. But now she is back with a fresh venture. Report By Robert Cockroft.

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A Nomad moves on Nothing as inconvenient as a brain haemorrhage was likely to deter Rita Britton from designing clothes.

Now recovering, she’s at it again.

and Jean Muir are being cleared. The building, unthinkably to its regulars, will soon be for sale.

For nearly 50 years she ran Pollyanna, a nest of rooms stuffed with exclusive labels, which drew customers and designers from across the world.

It was here in April that a coffee cup began to shake in her hand and fell to the floor.

Doctors had warned her to slow down; this was the payback of ignoring them.

Her words, canny and fluent, enlivened fashion magazines and newspapers. Honours came her way: The freedom of her town, honorary degrees, industry awards.

She started Pollyanna in Barnsley in 1967 and turned it into an institution: boutique, cutting room, catwalk, cafe, classroom, confessional, comedy store. Small wonder that the abrupt news of its closure four months ago made headlines.

Today the blinds are down. The racks that once carried Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, Romeo Gigli, De Rien, Jil Sander

“I felt very weird,” Rita says. “My son Mark rang my GP who told him I was having a stroke and to dial 999. I’d been pressurised with the business and getting bogged down with the small details. You can take it in your 30s or 40s but not when you’re in your 70s.”

It was during eight days in hospital that Rita, 71, and still with the energy of a small bomb, began to plot the future. Pollyanna would have to go but there was scope to develop her increasingly successful fashion label, Nomad. »

"I’m lying in my hospital bed thinking we have to crack on with Nomad to see where we can go with it. After 48 years I realised I was not a businesswoman but a creative person, though I never regret opening Pollyanna."

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Peruvian Alpaca hand knit Sweater £550, Black Jersey Leggings £195, Boots by Dr Martens

She’d seen a seismic shift in the fashion industry as it pursued emerging markets with ever more blingy styles that, she believes, stifled creativity.

an online retailer. Rita says: “It’s designed so that all you have to do is add lippy and earrings to turn your work and travel clothes into elegant evening-wear.”

“I reckon Nomad does well because we don’t do the glitzy stuff but concentrate on making wearable clothes. In an age of machine mass-production, the love imparted into something that’s handmade is what creates desirability,” she says.

Eventually she plans to have one outlet in the barn by her home near Penistone where clothes will be displayed alongside hand-made jewellery, ceramics and other artwork. “The experience will be more like going into a gallery than a clothes shop,” she says.

“Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed the rise of a new, more discreet tone in the world of luxury and the death of conspicuous consumption – the age of logo fatigue is upon us. In addition, the nature of luxury itself is changing: we feel that the real luxury in a garment is the story behind it.”

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For the moment, she is concentrating on her winter collection. Garments include silk blouses, t-shirts, trousers, jackets, dresses, coats in escorial and cashmere, woven in Yorkshire, and, among the accessories, bags in ostrich, crocodile and soft leather.

The small design and admin team works from Barnsley sending Rita’s designs to be made in London. She’s proud of the Britishness of the enterprise.

White Sandwash Silk Oversized Shirt £450, Black Silk Velvet Two Pleat Pant £450, Antique Silver & Topaz Concha Belt £2500

Photography byJohn Britton at Britton Brothers www.brittonbrothers.com. Make-up: Joanna Worthington. Model: Beth Waite at Industry People

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“A friend of David Hockney’s once bought an Issey Miyake shirt for him from us. He rang later to say that Hockney would like 26 more shirts, exactly the same. I understand the thinking: you want to wear something that’s comfortable and beautifully made so that you are wearing it and it’s not wearing you. So don’t worry what other people think, find your own style.”

The label’s appeal, she says, is to 'intelligent, independent women' - and presumably to men of similar virtues also, as that line is also being developed. Age? Immaterial, she insists, though clients tend to be over 30 as the garments are not cheap.

Woven Escorial Overcoat £1395Escorial wool originates from a rare herd that is only found in New Zealand. They originate from El Escorial royal palace in Spain, where the name was taken from and where they graze. At the time, the fabric could only be worn by the King of Spain. It is as soft (if not softer) than cashmere.

Forest Green Silk Velvet Angel Dress £595, Bird Bone Diamond Earrings by Jessica McCormack POA, Boots by Dr Martens

“One customer in London ordered two of our Angel dresses, one in black crepe for evening wear and one in black linen for the day. The biggest mistake women make when they dress for formal occasions is that they step out of their normal style and try too hard. You can tell it by the

way they stand. Style has to be effortless but a problem with women is their own insecurity. If you go to an occasion and don’t feel confident it will ruin your evening.

Black Silk Velvet Boyfriend Jacket £695, White Sandwash Silk Clooney Vest £295, Black Silk Velvet Two Pleat Pant £450, Gold Loafers by Comme des Garcons

She doesn’t disappoint in black top and black baggy trousers. The trainers are white. It’s a soft, relaxed look. For more formal occasions she might wear similar garments in more structured material.

This versatility of design prompts her to address the issue of balance between comfort and style.

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Delamere Gardens Fixby, Huddersfield HD2 2AW

...It's all in the detail Winner of the category New Dwellings: 2-15 Units for The Building Excellence Awards 2014, West Yorkshire Delamere Gardens is a development of 13 individual, contemporary homes in Fixby, Huddersfield designed by award-winning architects, One17.

Flowing spaces provide flexible living accommodation, flooded with natural light.

Prices from ÂŁ575,000 to ÂŁ1,285,000

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COPPER INTO GOLD There’s a huge demand for all things copper in the home. German manufacturer Dornbracht got in on the action this year, launching a new finish, ‘Cyprum’. The combination of 18-carat fine gold and copper results in a pink-gold hue. Cyprum is restricted to the MEM fittings series at present but Dornbracht is looking to extend the finish to other ranges.

Photo credits - Stephan Abry

www.dornbracht.com

Elsewhere in the bathroom, Dornbracht has introduced a ‘Personal needs, individual spaces’ series. It’s designed to give a spa experience in your own bathroom but also addresses practical needs. It includes an extending hand-held shower for hair washing at the washstand, a pivoting outlet for mouth rinsing, an extending nozzle that delivers a hydro massage, and a foot bath. www.dornbracht.com

When bathroom space is tight, every millimetre counts and creating a frame to conceal the WC cistern can take up valuable floor area. Spanish manufacturer Roca has come up with a solution: the ‘In-Tank Meridian’. The pan has an integrated cistern and it’s available in wall-hung and back-to-wall versions.

Flush buttons activate an air pump that forces the water through the pan rim. www.roca.com

German designer Janis Ellenberger’s wash stand was on display in Ventura Lambrate, one of the Milan furniture fringe venues. It extends the tradition of a wash stand pitcher used on a simple table. The sinuous lines of the moulded Corian top contrast with the simple solid ash frame. The washstand also comes in a wall-mounted version with a drawer. www.ellenbergerdesign.de

Photo credits - Alexander Fanslau

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Bunad Blankets Mandal Veveri 138 x 235cm - £145 approx www.mandal-veveri.no

It’s that time of year. The leaves are starting to fall, the nights are drawing in and candles and fires are starting to be lit. There’s something comforting about curling up on the sofa wrapped in a blanket, glass of red in hand. As well as their warmth, blankets and throws can bring colour and texture to living rooms and bedrooms. Inspired by the vibrant textiles on show in Milan, designers at One 17 will be combining jewel colours with more neutral tones in different textures this winter to create a layered look.

Pierre Blanket Ivano Redaelli $1,370 www.avenue-road.com

Montgomery Throw - Pink Missoni Home at Heals 130 x 190cm - £204 www.heals.co.uk

Moss Stitch Cotton Throw Nkuku 125 x 180cm - £80.00 www.nkuku.com

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Reversible Lambswool/ Angora Throw in Raspberry Josephine Home 130x200cm - £300 www.amara.com

Pinstripe Merino Lambswool Throw Bronte by Moon 140 x 185cm - £85.00 www.brontebydesign.co.uk

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Tim Allen progressed from chopping chips in a Yorkshire pub to running one of the hottest Michelin starred restaurants in London.

Robert Cockroft meets him.

Chef Tim Allen was feeling under the weather as he toiled in his kitchen at Launceston Place, Kensington. The phone wouldn’t stop ringing and he hadn’t the time or inclination to answer it.

A woman from his PR company was anxious to speak to him; so anxious, that she took a cab and turned up at the door.

Tim says: "She asked me why I wasn’t answering the phone and I told her that I’d been too busy with other stuff. She gave me a big hug and said you’ve won a Michelin star. I said yeah, right, thinking it was a wind-up. So I phoned Michelin and they said, yes, you’ve won a star. I put the phone down and was sick in the bar sink. Shock, I suppose."

Tim, 39, had moved to Launceston Place in 2012 and the star came six months after his arrival, a remarkable achievement for a lad whose first taste of catering was as a sixth-former, chopping potatoes at a pub in Huddersfield.

Out among the stars I meet him for the first time, by chance, at his restaurant, a townhouse with brooding decor and quirkily shaped rooms, serious but easy, and once a favourite dining spot of Princess Diana.

After a flawless lunch, memorable for some hummingly fresh turbot and a sequence of emphatic flavours, he trots up from the kitchen, tiggerish and uncannily youthful for someone in his pressurised position.

I tell him I’ve come from Huddersfield to meet a friend for lunch and mention an article in some London rag in which he seemed to disparage Yorkshire restaurants and diners. He turns a lighter shade of rhubarb. The truth is, he has much to thank his home county for.

After chopping those spuds at the Three Owls, Kirkburton, his first job in professional cheffery was for the talented but volatile chef Scott Hessel at the new Mustard and Punch in Honley. "I was young and it was hard work but it gave me the impetus to go and work in a Michelin-starred restaurant."

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Salted cod brandade with Isle of Barra cockles and flat leaf parsley

And so the 20-year-old headed for Pool Court in Leeds, where Jeff Baker had won the city’s first Michelin star. "Working for Jeff is where I learned to do the basics and to do them well," he says.

The intensity continued with a stint with another disciplinarian, Simon Gueller, then of the Leeds waterside restaurant, Rascasse, now of the Michelin one-star Box Tree in Ilkey. "About five of us would look after 150 diners on a Saturday night so it was bloody tough but it was also empowering.

"The cameraderie was fantastic. Simon was football-mad so at 5.30 each Saturday we had to play five-a-side, kitchen against waiters. We set up a pitch on ground near the restaurant, so we were hot and sweaty even before the evening service began."

Rascasse marked the end of Tim’s Yorkshire apprenticeship. After two years at a hotel near Oxford he went to L’ Ortolan, near Reading, where John Burton-Race, a selfconfessed basket-case, had achieved two

Michelin stars. This, he says, is where he cut his teeth cooking high-end dishes. As a senior sous chef he also helped Burton-Race to open at the Landmark Hotel in London.

"That was the hardest six months I’ve ever had. The opening night was carnage and the day the critics came for lunch, I was so rushed that I knocked a bottle of olive oil over and set the stove on fire. Burton-Race just said 'for fuck’s sake'... and we carried on."

When a Landmark colleague, Martin Burge, moved to Whatley Manor in the Cotswolds, Tim followed as his deputy, staying for seven years. Two Michelin stars soon twinkled over it and the freedom afforded him there helped to develop his creativity.

"It was like working in the army and I had the first real kick of discipline. When you’re young you don’t really know what work is, but life there was full-on, constantly."

For nearly 20 years, he’d immersed himself in high-level craft his CV also includes time at the two-star Midsummer House, Cambridge yet he was hesitant to go solo.

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English veal served three ways with mushroom puree, truffle linguine and Madeira jus

"If you have a good grounding you tend to produce good quality. I now feel I’m getting my style and I think it’s come to the fore in the last year."

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"That first star was a buzz and helped to turn the business around but it brings a high level of expectation and criticism and you have to learn to grow a skin. It’s a competitive arena, there’s another onestar a mile away. But I’m not cooking for a star, I’m cooking for people in the restaurant. Ultimately, I cook food I want to eat: honest, clean and with great flavour. I take everyday products and try to extract the best possible flavour. Style? There’s a strong French influence but I love using British ingredients so there’s a modern British element."

Tim is married with two young children and seldom cooks at home.

Did he imagine what the future would hold when he took his first steps in catering? "No, I never set out with a goal. To be honest, I still don’t know what my goal is. I like to cook and see people smile and that’s what I get my buzz from."

Launceston Place, 1A Launceston Place, London W8 5RL. 020 7937 6912

Recipe Seasonal Salad with a Truffle Cream and Honey Mustard Glaze

For the Truffle Cream 400g Philadelphia cream cheese 30g truffle paste 1 tsp lemon juice ¼ tsp truffle oil Salt

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For the Honey Mustard Glaze 80g grain mustard 200ml white wine vinegar 225g runny honey 1 tbsp fresh thyme leaves

Method Begin by preparing and cooking the vegetables for the salad. For the beetroot, take a piece of tin foil and place a piece of greaseproof paper of equal size on top. Put the beetroot in the middle with the star anise, cinnamon, orange peel, sugar, peppercorns and a pinch of salt. Fold and pinch the edges to create a papillote. Before you close the top, pour in the beetroot and apple juice. Place in the oven at 180C and cook until tender, about 1.5 hours. Once cooked allow to cool, remove the skins and store.

For the carrots, mix the egg whites, salt, garlic, caraway seeds, rosemary and thyme to form a paste. Line a tray with greaseproof paper and cover with some of the salt mixture. Place the carrots on top and mould the salt mixture around the carrots to enclose. Bake at 200C for 15-20 minutes, or until tender. Once cooked, allow the carrots to rest in the salt for 10 minutes. Remove and slice each carrot in half lengthways, stopping just before the carrot is cut into two pieces. Peel the skin away and store the carrots .

For the parsley root or parsnips, parboil for two minutes, remove from the heat and drain. Heat a casserole on the hob and melt 40g butter.

Add the parsley root/parsnips and toss in the butter, cover and place in a preheated oven at 180C for 20-25 minutes or until tender. Once removed from the oven, sprinkle with salt and cool.

This can be served as a starter or as a light lunch to share with friends. Place a large sharing platter on the table and serve the truffle cream on the side.

This salad appears on our tasting and market menus and we change the vegetables depending on what is best and in season. It’s a perfect prepareahead dish as all the vegetables can be cooked the day before. Just place in the fridge and bring up to room temperature before you serve. - Serves 6

For the salad 500g beetroot, preferably Heritage, washed and trimmed 500g carrots, preferably Heritage or new season 300g shallots, preferably Echalion 300g broccoli, cut into small florets One small cauliflower, cut into small florets 500g parsley root or small parsnips, scrubbed and trimmed, depending on size, left whole or cut into 6cm pieces 2 star anise 2 cinnamon sticks 10 black peppercorns

Zest of half an orange, removed in strips with a vegetable peeler 1 tbsp soft brown sugar 75ml beetroot Juice 75ml apple juice 1kg table salt 100g egg white (approx 3 whites), 2 cloves of garlic, crushed 10g each of caraway seeds, fresh thyme and rosemary leaves 200g salad leaves, Salad Glace or Dandelion leaves, or a bitter leaf of choice 65g unsalted butter Salt

For the shallots, place unpeeled in a steamer. Cooking time will vary depending on size; for smaller shallots check after seven minutes, larger shallots may need an extra few minutes. When they feel tender remove and cool before peeling and cutting in half. Melt 25g of butter in a frying pan and place the shallot, cut side down, until it turns a light golden colour.

For the cauliflower, place the florets onto a cool griddle and using a medium heat, allow the florets to heat up with the griddle pan. This will ensure they cook throughout. Remove from the griddle when they are tender and have charred.

For the broccoli, steam for 3 minutes, or until the stems are just tender.

Remove and refresh immediately in cold water. Dry the florets and place on a hot griddle to finish cooking and char.

Prepare the honey and mustard dressing by placing the mustard and vinegar in a pan. Gently cook until all the vinegar has evaporated. Add the honey and simmer for a minute. Add the thyme and remove from the heat. Leave to cool completely.

For the truffle cream, place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix together until smooth. Ideally use an electric stand mixer with paddle attachment.

When you are ready to serve your salad, arrange a selection of the prepared vegetables on plates or place everything on a large platter.

Drizzle the honey and mustard glaze over the vegetables and then place the salad leaves on top. Serve with the truffle cream.

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BMW i

The Ultimate Driving Machine

SOME LEAD - OTHERS FOLLOW.

INTRODUCING THE BMW i RANGE.

Sandal are privately owned and offer a friendly, professional, non-pressured buying experience. We are delighted to be the area's approved dealer for the new BMW i Range.

The BMW i3 is the world’s first premium car to be truly born electric from the ground up, while the stunning new BMW i8 is an innovative sports plug-in hybrid. All we need now is pioneers; those driven enough and bold enough to experience the thrill of a new kind of driving pleasure.

The world is becoming electric. Don’t wait. It’s time to lead.

Visit www.sandalbmw.com or call 01484 515515 or 01924 433500 for more information.

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Telephone: 01484 515515

Telephone: 01924 433500

98 Leeds Road, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD1 6NN www.sandalhuddersfieldbmw.co.uk 2 minutes from Huddersfield City Centre

Dewsbury Road, Wakefield West Yorkshire WF2 9BE www.sandalwakefieldbmw.co.uk

2 minutes from junction 40 M1

Official fuel economy figures for the BMW i3: mpg N/A, CO2 emissions 0 g/km, nominal power output (electric motor) 75/102 kW/hp at 4,800 rpm; peak power output (electric motor) 125/170 kW/hp, total average energy consumption per 62 miles/100 km (combined cycle) 12.9 kWh, customer orientated range 80–100 miles, total range (combined cycle) 118 miles. Official fuel economy figures for the BMW i3 with Range Extender: mpg 470.8, CO2 emissions 13 g/km, total average energy consumption per 62 miles/100 km (weighted combined cycle) 11.5 kWh, customer orientated range without use of Range Extender 75-93 miles, weighted combined cycle total range 211 miles, weighted combined cycle range without use of Range Extender 106 miles. Official fuel economy figures for the BMW i8: mpg 113, CO2 emissions 59 g/km, power output (engine) 170/231 kW/hp, power output (electric motor) 96/131 kW/hp, total average energy consumption per 62 miles/100 km (weighted combined cycle) TBC, customer orientated range TBC, total range (combined cycle) >310 miles. Maximum electric range value 22 miles, common average electric range value (e-Drive only) 16-22 miles. The BMW i8 is a plug in hybrid electric vehicle that requires mains electricity for charging. Data subject to confirmation.

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SKI RESORT WATCH

Winter: Short days, long nights, frosty mornings. While most people are counting down the days until Spring, One 17 are celebrating the start of the Ski Season. Mark Lee, architect, skier and addicted traveller shares his thoughts on a few ski resorts, the places to stay and the places to eat.

BANFF, CANADA A completely different experience to skiing in Europe, there’s a commute to the slopes for a start. Sunshine Village is a 20 minute drive, Lake Louise is 45 minutes away. Canada is less about ‘on-piste’ skiing and more about skiing the giant powder bowls.

The infrastructure is not state of the art, the lifts are slow and its not uncommon for temperatures to drop below - 30°C! But it’s all worth it for the fantastic POWDER. Why else would my son Matthew spend a ski season out there?

Fairmount Banff Springs Hotel. The hotel is not up to the quality of most European luxury hotels but is still very good. It struggles to keep things intimate and personal simply because of its size, it’s like a mini resort in itself with 768 rooms.

The sirloin steak with the double baked potato at the Keg Steakhouse and the dryrub ribs at Chilli’s Sports Bar in downtown Banff are excellent.

A great summer resort with all sorts of outdoor activities

LA PLAGNE/LES ARCS, FRANCE Heaven for skiers of all abilities on a limited budget who just love to ski and not much else. Self catering is king in La Plagne and les Arcs, families galore with brilliantly located ski-in, ski-out accommodation. La Plagne and les Arcs are gondola linked to form the giant 425 km ‘Paradiski’ area making the dual resort one of the largest pisted ski areas in the World.

This is a perfect resort for learning to ski, intermediates and advanced skiers, definitely skiing for everyone. Camera not essential.

Dominos Pizza (not the chain) in Plagne Centre: close your eyes and forget the décor, the pizzas are amazing especially with the additional ‘drizzled’ oil dressing.

Le Refuse, Plagne Centre: the table d’hote menu is great value, gratin potatoes superb. Several carafes of ‘Gamay’ rouge makes for a great evening without breaking the bank.

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ZERMATT Arguably the best ski resort in the world, Zermatt has everything: superb skiing, beautiful town, exceptional scenery, great food, top shopping and lots of après ski alternatives. Riffelalp Resort is a great summer hotel with deals at approx. 2/3rds the winter rates.

Best for intermediates and advanced skiers.

Riffelalp Resort, situated at 2222m, way above Zermatt: this has got to be one of the most understated luxury hotels in the world. The view from a chalet bedroom towards the Matterhorn is breathtaking. The staff, the food and the red ski run all the way down to Furri first thing in the morning is just bliss. If you are looking for a hotel and ski perfection I can’t think of anywhere better.

Restaurant Zum Zee, located in a small hamlet above Zermatt Hills is picture postcard Switzerland combined with amazing food and drink.

Restaurant Findlerhof, Fildeln. More often referred to as ‘Franz & Heidis’ the restaurant is another example of Swiss ability to create genuine world class food in the middle of nowhere.

Both restaurants are firm favourites for skiers and walkers alike so reservations are essential.

OBERGURGL, AUSTRIA Great resort for a pre-Christmas or a late season short break due to its reliable early and late season snow record. Limited piste but a great way to fire up the ski legs or finish the year with a good old ski blast. Upmarket resort with mainly 4 & 5* hotels.

Hotel Crystal, recently refurbished with a great new spa and swimming pool. The Hotel benefits from direct lift access to the slopes from the ski bootroom.

LAAX Laax is excellent for beginners and intermediate skiers. It is also a firm favourite with snowboarders of all levels. The various terrain parks and the enormous half pipe at the Pipelift Snowpark are a real test. The 17km run from the glacier at Vorab all the way through the village of Flims is great fun and a real confidence builder. Good quality self service or fully serviced restaurants in key locations around the mountains give lots of excuses to stop for hot chocolate and cakes.

Stay: Rocks Resort is the main draw for Laax. Luxury self catering accommodation - if that isn’t a contradiction. The two and three bedroom apartments are unlike anything else available in the Alps with granite showers and steam rooms to rival many 5* hotels.

The Grandis Ustria da Vin Restaurant at Rocks Resort: great restaurant with a trendy twist. Entry is through a beautifully designed and fitted out wine shop where you can choose a wine for your meal from the vast selection on display. An open kitchen cooks BBQ specialities and raclette from the open fire. The resulting atmosphere is casual, friendly and fun.

Obergurgl is mainly an hotel resort with very good restaurants in-house.

Lots of eating options around the mountain when out on the slopes.

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Sunburst clock

George Nelson www.vitra.com

Favn™ Sofa

Jaime Hayon www.fritzhansen.com

Design Classics

Swan™ 3320 Lounge chair

Arne Jacobsen www.fritzhansen.com

Thinking of investing in a piece of design history?

One 17 shares some of its favourites.

Barcelona™ Chair Ludwig Mies van der Rohe www.knoll-int.com

PK20™ Easy chair

Poul Kjærholm www.fritzhansen.com

Butterfly Stool

Sori Yanagi - www.vitra.com

Local Stockists The Home - Salts Mill, Saltaire, Bradford 01274 530 770 www.thehomeonline.co.uk

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Heals - Redbrick Mill, Batley 01924 464 918 www.heals.co.uk

Nest.co.uk - 9, Parkway Rise, Sheffield 0114 243 3000 www.nest.co.uk

It is sometimes the little things in life that give us the greatest pleasure.

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A particular piece of clothing that you turn to when nothing else works; that ancient wooden spoon that is just right for stirring almost everything; the chair that everyone – you, the dog and Aunt Alicia – gravitate towards automatically. Or it may be a piece of art that gladdens the heart, some bedlinen that produces the most blissful night’s sleep or something as simple as the balance and feel of your favourite pen.

We’re not talking treasured heirlooms of sentimental value. A bundle of crumbling love letters doesn’t count, nor does the threadbare teddy that has been chewed, sucked and dragged around by four generations of the family. Think more of something that exemplifies the exhortation of the great William Morris to 'have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.'

And ideally that is both.

A quick enquiry round the Notes office produced the following:

Stuart Beaumont, architect and conservation specialist: For me, it’s a leather belt I bought some years ago when we were staying at our place in Turkey. The country offers a terrific choice of leather goods but this particular belt just caught my eye – as if it was waiting for me almost. Since then I’ve worn it on hundreds of occasions and it never fails to make me feel safe and secure.

I find a good belt has the same benefits that a towel does in Douglas Adam’s brilliant book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. You can use it in a hundred and one emergencies but a good one also gives pleasure by its look and feel – even the smell of the leather – as well as its utility.

That reminds me of a belt from my childhood actually. A friend used to use one to strap his schoolbooks onto his cycle rack. I managed to swap something or other for the belt and wore it proudly for many years after. I wonder if it still exists? Perhaps there’s some deep psychological meaning to my fondness for belts!

Kevin Drayton, architect and writer: I have several candidates but I would single out a simple glass tea light holder purchased in Ikea many years ago. It is elegant in its simplicity, perfect of course as a tea-light holder but it has also been pressed into service as a glass for both a tot of malt whisky and a shot of espresso. I have seen it used to serve Bircher Muesli at breakfast in a very smart hotel in Geneva and it works wonderfully as a mini-vase for a single flower on a dining table for two. I just love it.

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Emma Cockroft, architect and interior designer: As the daughter of a chef, I was being taught how to cook Coq au Vin and Boeuf Bourguignon when most of my friends were still getting to grips with jam tarts. Back then the only knives allowed in my father’s kitchen were Sabatier, but over the years he switched his allegiance to the Japanese brand, Global. Their knives, designed by Komin Yamanda were inspired by the Samurai Tradition.

Their utility knife slices through that notoriously tricky root vegetable, the swede as easily as it does strawberries. It is perfectly balanced, making slicing, chopping and paring easier. It stays sharper for longer as its edges are ground to a point, rather than bevelled like most European knives. It glides through onions where cheap knives tear. Yes, one knife will set you back considerably more than a full set by lesser brands, but one is all that you need. www.globalknives.uk.com

Nathan Clegg, graphic designer and cyclist:

James Lumb, architect and triathlete: Last year I spent over forty hours swimming and in that time used three pairs of swimming goggles, for variety if nothing else.

However goggles are the one piece of kit that can cause the most

aggravation, they can be brand new and utterly useless; too tight and they’ll cause a migraine, too loose and they’ll fall off or they’ll leak causing chlorinated water to make your eyes bleed for the rest of the day.

So no matter what goggles I buy, thinking they’ll be better than my current pair, I always revert back to a trusty pair of Swedish goggles or ‘Monterbara’. The beauty of these is their simple functional design, nothing superfluous to their intended role.

They were designed in 1970 by a Swedish swimming coach called Tommy Malmsten and to this day the design hasn’t changed. To enable the perfect fit they are self assembled and come with two plastic eye cups, one latex band and one piece of string to tie the eye cups across the nose. They look like they shouldn’t work and certainly shouldn’t be comfortable but they are and they haven’t failed me in the last twenty years, better yet if I lose them they only cost £3 to replace. www.swedishgoggles.com

A 100 mile cycle race lasting six hours, means an average of 34,000 leg rotations of varying intensities. In anyone’s book that’s a lot of wriggling on what is effectively a slab of plastic wrapped in leather.

A bicycle perch is a complex and highly personal thing whether it be for time trialing, long distance epics, track racing or just popping to the shops. Material, width, length, curvature, cut-outs and weight are to be considered, never mind colour. Your body shape is critical when choosing a saddle just as much as the type of riding you’ll be doing. There are hundreds to choose from but the final choice can only be made by giving them a road test.

Whether its a Halfords special in the under a tenner bin or an £800 Italian handcrafted piece of art, you want one that ‘just fits’. One that seems to disappear, connecting you and the bike as one.

Having tried numerous saddles, the one that just clicks with me is the Italian Fizik Antares, a visually unassuming saddle ticking all the boxes I require as a competitive cyclist. Above all perfect support with minimal padding, lightweight and beautifully matches my bike’s colour scheme. Not to mention it’s the saddle of choice for a certain Mr Vincenzo Nibali, which will do for me.

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Fitbit Flex

This little gem tracks steps, distance, and calories burned. At night, it tracks your sleep quality and wakes you silently in the morning. www.fitbit.com/uk

Bell & Ross Wrist Watch

A rugged aviation style watch paired with French detailing and precision. www.bellross.com/uk

Leica T Compact Camera Take pictures and share them, quickly and easily. By email, or on Facebook and other social networks. us.leica-camera.com

11+ World Clock, by Cloudandco

The perfect device for frequent flyers, the 11+ World Clock has a cylindrical body that displays 24 different time zones via a clever rolling mechanism. Designed by Seoul-based Cloudandco, it features independently working hands that enable it to easily revert easily to local time. - ÂŁ27.99 www.elevenpl.us

Beolit 12

Powerful and portable one-point music system that streams from AirPlay. www.beoplay.com

Bicycle Wine Rack

If you like wine and you like cycling, you're going to love this. It attaches easily to most bike frames with antique brass fasteners, while the hidden clamps hold the bottle securely. www.oopsmark.ca

Bower & Wilkins P7 Headphones

A truly immersive sound combined with the luxurious comfort and impeccable build quality you expect from Bowers & Wilkins. www.bowers-wilkins.co.uk

Blomus Alpha Decanter

Decanting carafe. The wine is filtered and aerated whilst being poured. In use the tarter stays inside the filter. Totally drip free pouring. www.blomus.com

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‘Destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things’ HENRY MILLER

Small World Travel is a creative and cutting-edge luxury travel company specialising in creating bespoke itineraries, luxury holidays and honeymoons around the world. Whatever your destination, however unusual your request, we make it happen.

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The best luxury hotels share many key features. High thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets – check. Fabulous bathroom – check. Wonderful spa – check. Attentive service – check. But when the number of rooms runs into the hundreds, they can start to feel soulless. One 17 shares five alternative hotels – and there isn’t a tiled atrium lobby in sight…

Dunton Hot Springs Dunton Hot Springs, Telluride, Colorado, USA. Beautifully restored mining town, natural hot springs, great food, lots of activities. The only things you need are deep pockets. www.duntonhotsprings.com

Hotel Palafitte, Neuchatal, Switzerland.

The only hotel in Europe that is built on stilts. The lakeside pavilions have ladders from their terraces for early morning dips in Lake Neuchatal. www.palafitte.ch

Cockatoo Hill Retreat

The Ice Hotel

Daintree Rainforest, Queensland, Australia.

Jukkasjarvi, Sweden

Thatched cottage retreat in the middle of the rainforest. Great location for Barrier Reef Snorkelling, Rainforest excursions and 4WD visit to Cooktown www.cockatoohillretreat.com.au

Great three night break, two nights in ‘Centre Parcs’ type accommodation, one night in the Ice hotel. Lots of excursions and things to do but very expensive. www.icehotel.com

Tongabezi Lodge Victoria Falls, Zambia A collection of beautifully finished thatched houses and cottages on the banks of the Zambezi River.

Each house and cottage has its own valet to look after guests during their stay. www.tongabezi.com

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A health spa for Ferraris nestles in the heart of West Yorkshire We look behind the shutters of Italia Autosport

Horse Power What does “Prancing Horse” mean to you? If you have even a passing interest in the various manifestations of the internal combustion engine, it probably means gorgeous, aspirational supercars but possibly with connotations of 'rich person’s toy.'

What I’m talking about is Ferrari, the car company founded by the eponymous Enzo Ferrari and based in Maranello in northern Italy, whose logo is a prancing horse and whose products are things of legend. The marque is indelibly associated with Formula One racing and all the glamour and wealth that involves.

So it may come as something of a surprise to pass through the roller shutter door of an ordinary portal frame shed in a small industrial estate outside Huddersfield and see Ferrari after Ferrari stretching away into the distance. This is home

to Italia Autosport, a cross between a health spa for Italian sports cars and a refuge for enthusiasts who struggle with the corporate face of main dealers.

The man behind the venture is a down-to-earth Yorkshireman with a twinkle in his eye and a lifetime’s dedication to his passion for driving: John Pogson. And indeed passion is the word that crops up time and again in any conversation with or about the man.

At this point I should declare my interest: I first met John Pogson over twenty years ago when I was scratching the itch that many men develop to drive a sports car. In my case it was a Porsche. I was having a new tyre fitted and bemoaning the need to travel miles to the main dealership for servicing. » 75

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The fitter glanced up at me and said, “You want to talk to John Pogson, he’s only just up the road from you.” And so began. John and his team at Italia don’t in fact limit themselves solely to Ferraris, although they do form the bulk of the company’s business.

They nursed three Porsches for me well beyond the point where a main dealership would have given up on them and all the while kept telling me to ‘get a proper car.’

Some years later I capitulated and took the half way step of buying an aged Maserati 3200 coupe. Arguably this was a mistake.

Mistake because it was at one and the same time a sublime yet supremely frustrating relationship. A relationship that can be summed up by my decision to drive it all the way to Italy one summer and the day I spent in a Maserati workshop in a town in Tuscany while a technician with whom I could not converse patched up the notoriously fickle electrics sufficiently to get me back to Blighty.

After two years bouncing between fun and frustration I decided I had to get sensible and traded in the Maserati for a perfectly nice but more ‘everyday’ car. The morning of the following day the reality of what I had done hit me and I immediately began the search for a replacement ‘Mas’.

But back to John Pogson. At heart he is an old fashioned petrolhead. It is his joy in the visceral experience of moving swiftly with the aid of

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a beautifully engineered piece of machinery that is behind the company. That and a belief that working with people who understand and share his passion, either as colleagues or clients, is the route to a happy life. This attitude led to the time a client asked him if he would consider driving his Ferrari in a race. John agreed, won the race and launched a new chapter in Italia history. Over the next few years the company won seven British race championships, six with John himself at the wheel. The trophy cabinet at the company’s premises is something to behold.

So although Ferraris are his primary business, John can be found extolling the virtues of (as well as driving) certain motorbikes, American muscle cars and even the sort of mega-trucks that plough across continents. The man’s enthusiasm is infectious and there is no doubt he has the sort of engaging roguishness that in a certain light brings to mind Ian McShane in his portrayal of antiques dealer Lovejoy.

His is a very particular attitude to the pleasures of driving and one that is beginning to find fans all over the globe thanks to a video that appeared on YouTube in July this year.

One of John’s favourite sayings is “I don’t like the computers telling me what to do.” Clearly that is an approach that will not find favour with everyone, but for those who understand and share the passion, Italia Autosport is a place where you will feel very much at home.

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The man’s enthusiasm is infectious and there is no doubt he has the sort of engaging roguishness that in a certain light brings to mind Ian McShane in his portrayal of antiques dealer Lovejoy.

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RANGE ROVER SPORT SVR With the debut of the fastest, most powerful Land Rover ever produced, the Range Rover Sport SVR is the first model to wear the SVR designation being adopted by future Land Rover and Jaguar high-performance models.

The Range Rover Sport SVR accelerates from 0-60mph in just 4.5 seconds with it’s top speed electronically limited to 162mph. Having recorded one of the fastest times by a production SUV with a lap time of 8 minutes 14 seconds at the Nßrburgring Nordschleife, the Range Rover Sport SVR is set to be the worlds most capable performance SUV. Advance deposits now being taken. Speak to a member of our team today.

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At Farnell Land Rover, every customer interaction is personal with a focus on providing an outstanding experience.

We have some very exciting new models due to be launched and would be delighted to arrange a test drive at your home, office or any of our dealerships.

We look forward to welcoming you very soon.

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Bringing buildings to life Intecho is a leading provider of intelligent building technologies, home automation systems and audio-visual solutions.

Our ambition is simple - to create world-class, luxurious environments where discerning clients live, work and play.

We're distinguished by the way in which we intelligently, intuitively apply leading-edge technologies and for delivering outstanding customer experiences, from the inception of a project through to completion.

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Farnell Land Rover

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Kaluma Travel

Park House, Park Road, Petersfield, Hampshire GU32 3DL T: +44 1730 260263 E:enquiries@kalumatravel.co.uk www.kalumatravel.co.uk

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Manchester - 554-556, Bury New Rd, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 3BD T: 0161 798 4800 Preston - 4/6 Stanley Street, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 4AT T: 01772 204 004 Ribble Valley - Friendship Mill, Whalley Road, Read, Lancashire BB12 7PN T: 01282 770800 E: info@stuartfrazer.com

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BY BERTIE, THE CHOCOLATE LABRADOR

"Designers are a funny breed, don’t you think? Take mine for example: here am I, the most adorable chocolate Labrador anyone could wish for and yet he wears black clothes most of the time. Given my attraction to water and a tendency to shed fur, of course he’ll spend a fortune at the dry cleaners. Stands to reason.

Don’t climb on the furniture, don’t jump on the bed, don’t scratch at the doors. Honestly if it weren’t for the fact he leaves me alone now and again I’d have no fun in the house at all. He must have a stressful job though because he always seems quite animated when he comes back after I’ve been on my own.

I know he likes pens and pencils and things – some of them seem quite complicated – so I cheer him up sometimes by finding them and bringing them back in my mouth and dropping them in his lap. Doesn’t always work.

Then there’s the garden. What’s a garden for if not for hurtling around like a lunatic and charging after squirrels? The fuss he makes if I rearrange a few things is ridiculous. We’ve got a bit of a gravelled area and you can make a great noise if you skid across it and shower the stones against the plant pots. He seems to enjoy that because he shouts a lot every time I do it.

Now without being indelicate I have to say that clearing up after me (if you know what I mean) is something he’s pretty good at. But the other day when we went to stock up on those little plastic bags he carries round when we go for a walk, would you believe it, he wouldn’t buy any because they only had ones with a picture on them!

It’s the same with blankets and food bowls and so on: they all have to be the same colour – except that colour doesn’t feature at all. Black, white or sludge, that’s it. Mind you, this whole ‘matching colour’ thing nearly backfired on him a few weeks ago: we were in the car driving along when I felt an urgent need to answer a call if you know what I mean.

So I made my need clear and he screeched to a halt and leaped out, ready to release me. Except he realised that the lead he had with him didn’t match the collar I

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had on. Apparently, the belt on his trousers did match, so the idiot took it off, slipped it through my collar and off we went to find a patch of grass with him clutching his waistband to avoid a different type of accident.

Most of the time it doesn’t bother me really but I have to say we nearly had words last week. He’d taken me to the pet shop and I sniffed out these fantastic biscuits as we went round. I made it very clear which ones I fancied. Would he buy them for me? No he would not.

Reason? Didn’t like the design of the packet. "

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