Autumn Winter 2014
We love our building in Winchester but to juggle looking after customers, keeping the shop tidy and doing a shoot involving hundreds of plastic rabbits is a bit tricky. So for this lookbook we had a feeling for going out on location. We called every parish hall in the area and they could only squeeze us in around the toddler group, the yoga class and the antiques society (more of which later). But the beautiful Milner Hall (built 1792 as St Peter’s Chapel, the first Roman Catholic consecrated chapel since the Reformation FYI) had a three day shaped gap in their bookings and we set up camp. Welcome to The Hambledon Parish Hall Lookbook for Autumn 14. It’s a little bit WI, a little bit tea party, a little bit village fete but we hope it’s fully lovely. And it’s all available in store and online.
Vintage Window Vases from £19.95
Glass Decanters from ÂŁ6.95
Pearl Glassware from ÂŁ3.95
The milk glass pitcher, the pressed glass sundae dishes, the cakestand, the swiss roll: it all looked really nice but maybe a little bit pale. I confess (and given our location in an erstwhile chapel feel I must confess) that we may have made use of the beautiful hydrangeas in the garden. Thank you. And sorry.
Milkglass from ÂŁ14.95 Pressed Glassware from ÂŁ4.95
Paper Straws Pack of 25 £3.50
White Mugs £1.95 Glitter Star Garlands £9.95
We’re always a bit in awe of Jane. She’s very lovely, and clever, and she speaks perfect Italian (as far as we can tell). Every year she goes on holiday to Tuscany where she buys Chiaverini jam in the local co-op and has it on her pane pugliese for breakfast. And because she loves the jam so much she now imports it and sells it to us.
Chiaverini Jam £5.95
Paper Partyware from ÂŁ3.25
Sticker Assortments from ÂŁ2.95
Paper Garlands from £6.50 Glitter Crowns £7.95
A chance meeting at a trade fair. A very happy time of it buying beautiful scarves and accessories. And careful instruction in the art of swearing in Danish from Liz Beck, one half of the brilliant Beck Sondergaard. Tak as they say in Copenhagen.
BeckSondergaard Accessories from ÂŁ25
Rabbit Night Light £4.95 Animal Money Boxes from £24.95
Trois Petits Points Enamel Jewellery from £39 Pernille Corydon Gold Jewellery from £30
Bonne Maison Socks from ÂŁ14.95 Vintage Swan Vases from ÂŁ29
We hadn’t expected to find useful props in the Milner Hall broom cupboard. But amongst the plastic buckets and the dried out mops Finn found signs for the Hampshire Antiques Society (est. 1967, patron Paul Atterbury, yep, the one off Antiques Roadshow), one sign pointing right, one pointing left. They know where they’re going.
Permanent Botanicals from £1.95
Paul & Joe Make-Up from £7 Fig + Yarrow Apothecary from £8.95 Vintage Platters from £45
Men’s Gifts from £1.95
Honeycomb Paper Balls from ÂŁ2.50
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Photography by Michael Sinclair Design by Sandy Suffield Styling by Victoria Suffield, Lucy Coles and Fiona Morris and, as ever, enormous thanks to the inimitable and lovely team that is The Hambledon.