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The art of teaching With their pleasing graphics and the nostalgic feelings they engender, the educational wall chart, both antique and vintage, is enjoying a huge rise in popularity.
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Our round-up of the best new homewares for autumn, sales at auction, fairs and unmissable events
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Shopping As the nights draw in, take inspiration from a sophisticated gentlemen’s club or update your home with this season’s dark florals, plus our pick of the most stylish fireside companions
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A lifetime’s work Antiques dealer Tina Pasco has put her specialist knowledge to use in the renovation of her seaside home
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An artistic legacy Having returned to her childhood home, Clementina Stiegler has completed the work begun by her father, the celebrated artist Caziel
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Pigments of the imagination John and Gabrielle Sutcliffe’s house in Cambridge is filled with the visual tricks of John’s trade as a specialist in decorative paints effects
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The sound of silence An abandoned silk merchant’s house, deep in the Swedish countryside, has been rescued from ruin. The project has taken many years, but today the house is filled with rich colour and vibrant pattern
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A palace of pleasures We tour one of the country’s most opulent stately homes. Built by Ferdinand de Rothschild for weekend house parties, Waddesdon is filled with extraordinary treasures H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 9
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The essential guide to carpets and rugs Whatever your preference, whether you love heritage designs or are a fan of contemporary style, we’ve gathered together the best flooring options in wool
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Auction focus: studio ceramics The popularity of studio pottery continues to grow, as this autumn’s sale at Adam Partridge Auctioneers proves. However, there are still bargains to be had, so now is the time to invest suggests Caroline Wheater
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Key stories in the history of emerald Emerald is one of this season’s key colours. Holly Johnson looks at the history of our love affair with both the hue and the highly prized jewel that shares its name
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Back to the future A new range of furniture by designer Candia Lutyens takes its inspiration from the work of her grandfather, British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens
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By appointment only Do you feel apprehensive about buying from shops that are only open by appointment? Our guide demystifies this seemingly closed world…
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Riches of Snowdonia Bonhams’ sell-out sale not only ensured the future of Glyn Cywarch house in north west Wales, but also brought to light some extraordinary antiques
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The antiques escape: Worcestershire Antiques expert and television presenter, Philip Serrell shares his favourite haunts in Worcestershire
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Coming next month Next month we celebrate 300 issues of Homes & Antiques! Enjoy a sneak peek at what’s coming up
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Shopping directory Where to find the companies and products featured throughout this month’s issue
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Cliff-hanger I recently purchased, for £5, a milk/cream jug that has the Royal Staffordshire Pottery/A J Wilkinson Ltd mark on the bottom. I believe the jug may be a second, as it has a smudgee of blue paint and also som me speckles of blue on the inteerior. It also has another number, ‘150A’, written on the bottom in paint or what could be felt pen. I have been unable to find any information online about this particular pattern, apart from some images of some pottery designed by Clarice Cliff called ‘Arras’, which has the same floral desiggn. ALISON DANN, VIA EMAIL
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MICHAEL JEFFERY, 20th Century Design specialist at Woolley & Wallis Although Clarice Cliff did produce designs for A J Wilkinson, the company also marketed very similar patterns derived from these. The pattern number for ‘Arras’ (designed c1937) is ‘6767’, so the ‘150A’ written on yours suggests that your piece is a derivative. The jug would have formed part of a larger tea or coffee service, and is typical of the bright and cheerful patterns widely seen in the 1930s before Britain entered the Second World War. I think £5 is probably a very fair price for such a pretty jug from the time when high-profile designers first met mass production.
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WALL CHARTS You were all intrigued by the behind-thescenes shot from our educational posters shoot, styled by Ali Attenborough and photographed by Katya de Grunwald, which we posted on Instagram back in August. There were many great guesses as to what was coming up in our October issue, including schoolroom aesthetics and natural history! Turn to page 44 to read our feature on this highly collectable art form.
Cloisonné clues Are these vases what you would call ‘cloisonné’? And do you have any background details on the two pieces? They are both just over four inches tall and very pretty. One has a blue base and the other has what looks like a golden horse symbol. JOHN LAWSON, NORTHUMBERLAND
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ALISON SNOWDON Valuer and auctioneer at Fieldings They are indeed cloisonné. The cloisonné technique is where the decoration is formed by soldering or affixing silver or gold wires or thin strips of metal to the body, giving a raised outline for the design to be shaded in. Coloured enamel powders are then placed into the cells and, once fired, the colours turn to liquid and fill the required areas. Cloisonné enamel work is an ancient technique, perhaps most synonymous with Japan. From the photograph, your vases look to me to be later 20th-century and most likely souvenir or export wares, hence the horseshoe mark on the base. At auction, I would suggest an estimate of £15–£20.
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PROUD AS A PEACOCK Burleigh’s ‘Blue Regal Peacock’ range was a favourite of Queen Mary, and was first launched in 1913. This moody take on the collection is new for 2017 and would look beautiful on a contemporary dinner table. ‘Black Regal Peacock’ 12-piece place setting, £158, Burleigh.
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STYLE STEER During autumn, I use a lot of leaves in lieu of flowers. Large crystal vases with foliage in burnt oranges and browns is a great reminder of the season. I also roll up half of the carpets in order to reveal more of the brown wooden floorboards.
INVESTMENT PIECE
EXHIBITION STYLE Featuring decorative ceramics and furniture primed for displays, the latest range from John Lewis is inspired by pieces at the Victoria and Albert Museum. ‘Fitzhenry Collectors’ Cabinet’, £999; ‘Yama’ side plates, £65 for four; ‘Mizu’ platter, £55; ‘Yuri’ teapot, £50; ‘Tobu’ teacup and saucer, £25. * 0345 604 9049; johnlewis.com
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THE CALL OF THE WILD This cushion by Robert Gillmor is one of a collection of designs featuring stylised linocut prints of British animals and birds. One of the UK’s best-loved wildlife artists, Gillmor has also illustrated over 100 books. ‘Lovebirds’ cushion, £24.99, We Love Cushions. * 020 8801 5491; welovecushions.co.uk
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From 5th to 18th October, Lewis & Wood is hosting a pop-up shop at its showroom in Chelsea Harbour with purveyor of bespoke lighting, fabric and homewares Tinsmiths. Expect to see lovely slipware (such as this piece by Sean Miller) and other artisan crafts. * 01453 878517; lewisandwood.co.uk 01531 632083; tinsmiths.co.uk
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DARK AND BROODING Neptune’s A/W offering is packed with stylish designs, and we love the pairing of this sumptuous corner sofa, scattered with velvet cushions, against a moody teal wall. ‘Shoreditch’ corner sofa in ‘Elliot Soft Teal’, £4,190; ‘Rupert’ footstool in ‘Isla Fox’, £345; ‘Teal’ matt emulsion, £37 for 2.5l; cushions from £47, all Neptune.
Monk’s House, Virginia Woolf’s 19th-century country home, inspired the warm col rs and x res in the National Tr ’s ‘Bohemian Circles’ collection. Prices start from £4.
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MATERIAL WORLD We love the way Colefax and Fowler’s new ‘Corrigan’ fabric in the shade ‘Blue’, £89 per m, picks out the tones in these oriental ceramics. It would look equally lovely upholstered on a cocktail chair, like this one, or on a larger sofa or armchair. * 020 7244 7427; colefax.com
Made in an Arts and Crafts style, this Edith Linnell citrine brooch (est £150–£250) is for sale 23rd Sept. * 01969 623780; tennants.co.uk
This pearlware jug (est £200–£300) dates from 1839 and is for sale on 18th October. * 01722 424500; woolleyandwallis.co.uk
CLASSIC DESIGN
REINVENTED SHAPES Ercol has been crafting timeless furniture since the 1920s, and its latest range features several of the company’s classic pieces, reimagined with fresh colour palettes, patterns and shapes. The ‘Salina’ bed, £995, is crafted from pale ash and would perfectly complement a striking bedspread or bed linen set. Dressing table, £599; stool, £119; bedside table, £265, all Ercol ‘Salina’ range. * 01844 271800; ercol.com
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On sale 27th September, this Lalique design is inspired by St Francis of Assisi (est £1,000–£1,500). * 020 7447 7447; bonhams.com
This metre-wide table was made around 1700 (est £2,000–£3,000), on sale 20th Sept. * 020 7447 7447; bonhams.com
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With one of the largest private collections of ar t and antiques on display, get inspiration from the past at Woburn Abbey.
See how pieces from different time periods work together to create stunning interiors and discover the stories behind the objects collected over centuries by the Russell Family. w w w.woburnabbey.co.uk
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TIDY HOUSE, TIDY MIND Reduce clutter in your home with these super-organised reads
DESIGNS WE LOVE
Back to school
Embrace new-term fever this season with mid-century finds, industrial chic and stylish stationery ‘Barkley’ industrial wall organiser, £149.50, Maisons du Monde
BELOW ‘Master Edwards’ wall clock, £60, Newgate Clocks
ABOVE ‘Classic Satchel’, £150, The Cambridge Satchel Company RIGHT Memo pad, £7, Liberty London
Fumio Sasaki lives in a flat in Tokyo with three shirts, four pairs of trousers and four pairs of socks. Extreme though it may be, here he explores how minimalism changed his way of life. (Penguin Books Ltd, £9.99) Menu ‘JWDA’ metallic lamp, £179.95, Black by Design
BELOW ‘Ben’ faux wood and black metal
wall storage, £20.39, Maisons du M Monde
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‘Hillestak’ desk by Robin Day for Hille, c1950s, £2,495, Pamono
Fay Wolf is a firm believer that when your home is more organised, your creativity shines. In New Orderr she explains how to arrange your belongings for more productive living. (Ballantine Books, $20)
BELOW Concrete ‘A Z’ bookends, £49.95, The Letteroom
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19th-century green glass doorstop, £264.38, Jonathan Swire Antiques at 1st Dibs ABOVE RIGHT
Marie Kondo’s first book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying sold over five million copies, and her latest title is full of tips to declutter the Japanese way. (Vermilion, £10.99)
‘The Organiseher’ 2017/18 diary, £70, Organise-Us
Plywood school chair with black frame, £55, Peppermill Interiors
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Skandium With timelessness and simplicity at its core, Skandium is a haven of contemporary Nordic living WHATT Established in 1999 by three trendy Scandinavians, Skandium’s array of covetable homewares and design classics oozes Nordic tranquillity. ‘Good design never dates,’ explains Jan Vejsholt, who joined the company in 2014 as the managing director and part owner. ‘Our pieces are made to last and to be handed down through generations.’ FIND Skandium now has three stores across the capital, with the latest on South Kensington’s upmarket Thurloe Place, which opened in August this year. A unique shop spread across two properties, one two-storey building houses Skandium’s selection of soft furnishings, accessories and lighting, while a four-storey townhouse across the road is filled with inspiring room sets of classic Danish furniture and elegant tableware. BUY ‘Scandinavian design is not a trend, but a way of living,’ says Vejsholt, who explains that his shopping ethos is to ‘buy less, but buy better’. And indeed, you can walk away from Skandium with a piece of top-quality pottery or glass for as little as £12.
TOP The new Skandium store on South Kensington’s covetable Thurloe Place ABOVE LEFT One of Skandium’s on-trend room sets featuring a selection of furnishings, including the two-seater ‘Outline’ sofa, £2,515, and ‘Outline’ chair, £1,675, by Muuto RIGHT A stylish in-store display of modern Scandinavian glass, ceramics, cutlery and tableware
* 35–36 Thurloe Place, London, SW7 2HP. 020 3876 2744; skandium.com
5 of the best: Bedspreads Layer your bedding with sumptuous quilts, throws and blankets this autumn
BLUE JEANS
BOTANICAL PRINTS
DEEP SEA
PATCHING UP
STRAWBERRY FIELDS
Hand-embroidered denim linen quilt. georgiabosson.co.uk
‘Renata’ quilted throw. 0333 200 7331; bedeckhome.com
Navy quilted throw. 020 7226 7055; clarissahulse.com
Patchwork kantha quilt. 0844 848 4000; conranshop.co.uk
Morris & Co quilted throw. 0800 587 7645; amara.com
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MARK HUDDLESTON BUY Early 20th-century Ruskin Pottery ceramics can currently be picked up relatively cheaply, from £50 to £200. The factory operated under William Howson Taylor from 1898–1935.
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Behind the brand
Delcor
The British company has been designing and handcrafting sofas and chairs in its Northumbrian workshop since 1967
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elcor guarantees the hardwood frame on each of its sofas and chairs for 50 years. That’s half a century of sitting, lounging, reclining and snoozing. Having celebrated its 50th birthday in May this year, Delcor’s highly skilled team of craftsmen and upholsterers has been at the forefront of the British furniture market since 1967; creating beautifully upholstered products that are designed to last a lifetime. All of the timber is hand-selected and cut at the company’s sawmill in Northumberland. This means that nothing is off ff the peg and everything can be customised, whether you want a deeper seat, higher back or wider arm. Whichever fabric you’ve chosen, each piece is upholstered by hand. There’s also a refurbishment service on offer, where any Delcor sofa can be stripped down and restored to its original splendour. * 0191 237 1303; delcor.co.uk
TOP ‘Ridley’ sofa, from £1,841 and ‘Maximus’ stool, from £486 ABOVE RIGHT T A Delcor upholsterer at work RIGHT T ‘Natasha’ bed, from £1,467 BELOW ‘Monaco’ sofa in ‘Soft Jardin Exo’Chic’ in ‘Rainette’ by Christian Lacroix, £3,801
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Royal Copenhagen porcelain from the early 1900s to 1930 is highly valued at the moment. At a recent Fellows sale, a circular ceramic tray with polar bear surmount fetched £2,300. *0121 212 2131; fellows.co.uk
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SEVENTIES VIBE The fashioni will in strength at Bonhams on 20th September, as a rare and important collection of 55 pieces of Andrew Grima jewellery comes up for sale. The cache includes treasures from Grima’s heyday of the 1970s and an assortment of pretties made just before his death in 2007. Lots include this gold-andpink tourmaline ‘Greenland’ watch bangle (est £20,000–£30,000). * 020 7447 7447; bonhams.com
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manufacture of properly constructed and beautifully finished furniture. We have always drawn on the best in traditional and modern manufacturing techniques to achieve the highest standards and this has served us well for the past three decades.’ The company has its roots firmly in England and all Balmain and Balmain furniture is made to order here. The lucky winner will receive an ‘Avon’ twoand-a-half-seater sofa worth £2,500 and footstool worth £500, in your choice of fabric (up to £54 per m). Find out more at balmain.co.uk
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K 3rd & 4th Fine Art, Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood, St Edmund’s Court, Okehampton St, Exeter, EX4 1DU. 01392 413100; bhandl.co.uk K 3rd & 4th Fine Arts & Antiques, Canterbury Auction Galleries, 40 Station Road West, Canterbury, CT2 8AN. 01227 763337; thecanterburyauctiongalleries.com K 4th Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Dominic Winter, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, GL7 5UQ. 01285 860006; dominicwinter.co.uk K 5th Continental Ceramics & Glass, McTear’s, Meiklewood Gate, 31 Meiklewood Rd, Glasgow, G51 4EU. 0141 810 2880; mctears.co.uk K 9th & 10th House & Garden, Mallams, Dunmore Court, Wootton Rd, Abingdon, OX13 6BH. 01235 462840; mallams.co.uk K 10th 20th Century Decorative Art and Design, Sworders, Cambridge Road, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, CM24 8GE. 01279 817778; sworder.co.uk K 10th Fine Art Sale including Silver & Vertu, Lawrences, The Linen Yard, South St, Crewkerne, TA18 8AB. 01460 73041; lawrences.co.uk K 12th Art & Design from 1860, Cheffins, Clifton House, 1 & 2 Clifton Road, Cambridge, CB1 7EA. 01223 213343; cheffins.co.uk K 17th Design: Living in a Material World, Sotheby’s, 34–35 New Bond Street, London, W1S 2RT. 020 7293 5000; sothebys.com K 18th Fine Pictures, Silver & Jewellery, Halls, Bowmen Way, Battlefield, Shrewsbury, SY4 3DR. 01743 450700; hallsgb.com/fine-art K 19th Cinema, Entertainment & Music Memor ilia, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions, 24 Maddox Street, London, W1S 1PP. 020 7495 9494; bloomsburyauctions.com K 20th Contemporary & Post War British Art, Assembly Rooms, Town Hall, Old Market Place, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 1TL. 01787 372958; gainsborough.org K 21st Titanic, Transport & Icons, Henry Aldridge & Sons, Bath Road Business Centre, Bath Road, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1XA. 01380 729199; henry-aldridge.co.uk K 23rd Islamic & Indian Art, Roseberys, 74–76 Knights Hill, West Norwood, London, SE27 0JD. 020 8761 2522; roseberys.co.uk K 25th Important Design, Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London, W1S 1SR. 020 7447 7447; bonhams.com K 25th Decorative Arts: Design since 1860, Lyon & Turnbull, 33 Broughton Pl, Edinburgh, EH1 3RR. 0131 557 8844; lyonandturnbull.com K 26th Antiques & Furnishings, Bristol Auction Rooms, Baynton Rd, Ashton, Bristol, BS3 2EB. 0117 953 1603; bristolauctionrooms.co.uk K 31st The Watch Sale, Fellows, Augusta House, 19 Augusta Street, Birmingham, B18 6JA. 0121 212 2131; fellows.co.uk
* All the event dates listed in this issue are subject to change. Please check the details with the event organisers before travelling
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THE DIARY Usher in autumn with seasonal antiques, exquisite art, historic metals and the magic of Harry Potter... The First Days of Spring, 1929, Salvador Dalí
Explore Dalí and Duchamp At a glance, the works of Salvador Dalí and Marcel Duchamp couldn’t be more different: however, throughout their careers, the two of them forged a life-long friendship. Here, explore some of their most accomplished pieces, alongside rarely seen correspondences and collaborations. * 7th Oct 2017–3rd Jan 2018. Weston Galleries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, Mayfair, London, W1J 0BD. 020 7300 8000; royalacademy.org.uk
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BRUTON DECORATIVE ANTIQUES FAIR Home to a world-class art gallery and an array of stylish shops and restaurants, Bruton is swiftly becoming one of Somerset’s most glamorous towns. Taking place between 13th–15th October, Bruton Decorative Antiques Fair is a hotspot for trendsetting art and antiques hunters, and takes place across two large halls surrounded by antique and vintage cars. * Opening times vary. £5 (present this page to get two tickets for the price of one). 01278 784912; brutondecorativeantiquesfair.co.uk RIGHT An 18th-century princess fauteuil (top) and an antique wheeled market barrow (below)
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AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS
POWER & BEAUTY: THE ART OF SIR OSWALD BIRLEY Commissioned to paint portraits by the Royal Family, aristocracy, politicians, scientists, artists and celebrities alike, Sir Oswald Birley (1880–1952) was one of the most prolific portraitists of his era, and painted celebrated figures from King George V and Queen Mary, to Mahatma Gandhi and Sir Winston Churchill. This autumn, Philip Mould & Company, a leading British art dealership founded by BBC Antiques Roadshow w expert Philip Mould, is bringing together some of Birley’s most iconic works for the first time since Birley’s death in 1952. Curated by art historian Dr Jonathan Black and Josephine Fitzalan Howard, this is a particularly significant exhibition, as most of Birley’s portraits rarely leave the palaces and private stately homes in which they permanently reside.
Portrait of a seated Maxime Birley, 1934, Sir Oswald Birley
* 26th September–10th October. Philip Mould & Company, 18–19 Pall Mall, London, SW W1Y 5LU. 020 7499 68 818; philipmould.com
H Harry Potter: A History of Magic H T celebrate the 20th anniversary of Harry To Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the P British Library has delved into its B ccollection of ancient books, manuscripts and magical objects. This 13th-century a bestiary (left) pictures a majestic phoenix rising from the ashes, and wouldn’t look out of place in Dumbledore’s office. * 20th Oct 2017–28th Feb 2018. PACCAR Gallery, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB. 01937 546546; bl.uk
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SCOTLAND’S EARLY SILVER This stunning collection of ancient jewellery, coins and objects explores the impact of silver on Scotland, from the Romans to the Vikings. Free entry. * 13th Oct 2017–25th Feb 2018. National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF. 0300 123 6789; nms.ac.uk
Antiques fairs to make an extra-special trip to visit SS Otranto/ o SS Princess Juliana, mid 20th-century, JW Willey
THE DECORATIVE ANTIQUES AND TEXTILES FAIR 160 exhibitors storm Battersea Park for this swish shopping event. 3rd–8th October. £10 entry. 020 7616 9327; decorativefair.com
THE ESHER HALL ANTIQUES AND FINE ART FAIR With prices ranging from the modest to six figures, this fair features 25 specialist exhibitors. 6th–8th Oct. £5 entry. esherhallfair.com
THE NORTHERN ANTIQUES FAIR Taking place in Harrogate Convention Centre, discover 40 specialist exhibitors selling everything from maps to decorative sculptures. 19th–22nd Oct. £7.50 entry. 01797 252030; harrogateantiquefair.com
AFTER THE AUCTION Track the trends in the salesroom with our round-up of the latest prices
1TOP DECK Estimate: £100–£150 Hailing from Madrid, Spain, this set of 51 early 19thcentury playing cards soared way above its modest estimate when it went under the hammer at Fieldings Auctioneers earlier this year. Printed in blue with handcoloured decoration, the collection – although just short of a full deck – would look charming framed.
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Hammer: £750 * 01384 444140; fieldingsauctioneers.co.uk
2 DIFFERENT GLASS Estimate: £1,000–£2,000 Timo Sarpaneva (1926–2006) is regarded as one of Finland’s finest glass designers. His rainbow-effect vase – which he named ‘Kukinto’, meaning inflorescence – was created for Italian glassmaker Venini in 1991. And it brought colour to the cheeks of bidders at Catherine Southon, easily meeting its estimate.
Hammer: £1,400 * 020 8313 3655; catherinesouthon.co.uk
3 PRIZE DRAW Estimate: £2,000–£3,000 Often playing on politics, taste, manners and fashion, the satirical caricatures of the Georgian era are widely regarded as some of the finest. This cartoon by popular artist of the time James Gillray is entitled The Union Club, and illustrates a brawl in a gentlemen’s establishment.
SELFIE-MADE MILLIONS Estimate: £5m–£7m
Hammer: £2,600 * 020 7495 9494; dreweatts.com
4 DEEP IMPACT Estimate: £2,500–£4,000 John and Charles Deane developed the first underwater breathing apparatus in the 1820s, and in 1830 Augustus Siebe began building his own diving equipment using their designs as inspiration. That year, his company – which later became Siebe, Gorman & Co Ltd – produced this copper and brass helmet. In 1836 the Deanes discovered the site of the wreck of Henry VIII’s Mary Rose.
Whether it was a tin of Campbell’s soup, a box of Brillo pads, a can of Coca-Cola or the faces of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, Andy Warhol revolutionised the pop art movement, and created a timeless synergy between commercial advertising and celebrity culture. The above acrylic and silkscreen ink-on-canvas was created in 1963–1964, a period in which Warhol’s fame grew rapidly. Self-Portrait comes from a collection of nine silk prints, which used a ‘selfie’ taken by Warhol in a New York dime-store photobooth as the main source material. A pivotal collection in the artist’s portfolio, it represents the moment in which his own appearance, and unusual personal style, became crucial to his rise in celebrity. He soon gained accreditation as one of the most important self-portraitists in history. Having remained in a personal collection since the 1980s, this was the first of Warhol’s self-portraits to be sold at auction. A flurry of press coverage and excitement preceded its sale at Sotheby’s earlier this year, where it commanded an extraordinary hammer price. In the age of Facebook, Instagram and the ‘selfie stick’, the sale of Warhol’s first ever ‘selfie’ – created 50 years before we all started snapping our own – has made waves in the contemporary art world.
Hammer: £6m Hammer: £3,200 * 020 7806 5530; charlesmillerltd.com
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5 HOT DESK Estimate: £3,000–£4,000 This elegant George I walnut and featherbanded desk dates back to 1720, and is typical of its period. Referred to as a ‘kneehole’ desk (with a gap for the legs if a chair is pulled all the way up), it has a set of drawers on either side and a secret lockable cupboard in the recess. 2
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6 REST ASSURED Estimate: £650–£850 These luxurious, high-backed lounge chairs were designed by Modernist furniture designer Franco Bizzozero for Pierantonio Bonacina in Italy, and feature contemporary wooden frames, with corded backs and sensual, mint-green suede cushions.
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Estimate: £300–£500 This colourful preserve jar, adorned with leafy branches and apples, wouldn’t look out of place in a trendy, contemporary interiors shop. It is, in fact, highly collectable 20th-century Wemyss Ware, and it sold for a snip, alongside other Wemyss cats and ceramics, at Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers earlier this year.
Hammer: £375 * 0131 557 8844; lyonandturnbull.com 6
8 SOUND HOUND Estimate: £400–£600 Novelty antique decanters make for fun centrepieces at dinner parties or gatherings, and we reckon this playful chap would be a real conversation starter. Although the mysterious ‘JB’ maker’s mark could not be traced, the silver-mounted, moulded-glass Alsatian – which comes with a matching glass stopper – is thought to have been crafted in Vienna, Austria, in 1930. It reached a hammer price far above its original estimate.
Hammer: £1,600 * 020 7495 9494; dreweatts.com
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Alabaster chandelier c1880, £10,000, Dimitri Stefanov Chandeliers. 020 7352 2171; rockcrystal chandeliers.co.uk
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Oil painting of red deer by Thomas Henry Gibb, £6,350, Regent Antiques. 020 8809 9605; regentantiques.com
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Traditional banker’s lamp with rail, £985, Besselink & Jones. 020 7351 4669; besselink.com
GENTLEMEN’S CLUB Draw up an armchair and settle in for the evening. This traditional style is defined by rich chestnut leather, warm wood and russet tones
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Manning’s terrestrial globe 1861, £4,800, Bentleys. 020 7730 6832; bentleyslondon.com
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Regency secretaire bookcase, £19,850, Windsor House Antiques. 01832 274595; windsorhouse antiques.co.uk
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Bust of WD Keyworth c1882, £550, Town House Traders at 1st Dibs. 1stdibs.com
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‘Metropolitan’ umbrella stand by Linley, £575, Amara. 0800 587 7645; amara.com
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Victorian deep-buttoned leather chair, £2,100, Marylebone Antiques. 020 7723 7415; maryleboneantiques.co.uk
‘Tatra’ decanter, £75, LSA International. 01932 789721; lsa-international.com OLD
Snuff shoe c1820, £330, Spencer Swaffer. 01903 882132; spencerswaffer.co.uk
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Black decorated lacquer bedside cabinet, £645, Orchid. 01264 811111; orchidfurniture.co.uk
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‘Sacre Coeur’ pink velvet bed, from £1,980, The French Bedroom Company. 01444 415430; frenchbedroomcompany.co.uk
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‘Blair’ pendant light, £49.50, Marks & Spencer. 0333 014 8000; marksandspencer.com NEW
‘2 Anemones’ perfume bottle, £990, Lalique. 020 7292 0444; lalique.com NEW
‘Bloomingville’ flower-print cushion, £49, Out There Interiors. 020 8099 7443; outthereinteriors.com
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‘Floralism’ velvet stool, £270, The French Bedroom Company OLD
Dutch still life, c1870, £5,950, Lennox Cato Antiques & Works of Art. 01732 865988; lennoxcato.com
MIDNIGHT GARDEN Florals work for autumn, too. Accentuate elegant antiques with sultry purple and dusky pink prints to create a bold, feminine look NEW
Night Flower ‘Azalea’ fourdrawer cabinet, £360, Out There Interiors
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‘Midnight Garden’ cushion, £15, House of Fraser. 0345 602 1073; houseoffraser.co.uk
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Iris still life by Gerard Albouy, 1960s, £1,800, Caroline de Kerangal. 07970 998220; cdkantiques.com
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‘Avventurina’ glass vase, c1970, £375, L&V Art and Design. 020 7819 9655; landvdesign.com NEW
Charcoal velvet occasional chair, £485, Rockett St George. 01444 253391; rockettstgeorge.co.uk
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William Morris fire screen c1890, £2,300, Holly Johnson. 01260 253110; hollyjohnson antiques.com
Willow log holder, £70, Houseology. 0330 363 0330; houseology.com
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Set of three 19th-century brass fire tools, £2,250, Lorfords. 01666 505111; lorfordsantiques.com
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Luxury matches, £6, Archivist. 01608 658601; archivistgallery.com
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Leather kindling bucket, £89.95, Decorator’s Notebook. 0845 474 1747; decor rsnotebook.co.uk
BY THE FIRE From kindling baskets to comfy chaairs, our pick of fireside accessories includes beautiful antiique collectables and functional contemporaary pieces
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Pair of 19th-century bellows, £1,200, Windsor House Antiques. 01832 274595; windsorhouse antiques.co.uk
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Pine cone firelighters, £14.95, Skandium. 020 7823 8874; skandium.com
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‘Campden’ armchair, from £1,895, Wesley Barrell. 01993 893111; wesley-barrell.co.uk
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Pair of Victorian brass fire dogs, £245, Graver Antiques and Interiors. 07493 633720; antiques-atlas.com/ antiques-atlas com/ graverantiques/
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Large wrought-iron log holder, £115, Gardden Trading. 01993 845559; 0199 gardentrading.co.uk
Rococo revival French fire screen c1890, £2,500, Patrick Moorhead Antiques. 01273 779696; patrickmoorhead.co.uk
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Stonehenge A fascinating exhibition opening on Friday 20th October, reveals the diet and lifestyle of the mysterious Neolithic people who built this enigmatic ancient monument, one of the great wonders of the world. A NEW PERSPECTIVE
Rievaulx Abbey The new visitor centre at the peaceful and impressive ruins of one of England’s most powerful Cistercian monasteries hosts a one-off exhibition of photographs and documents charting the Abbey’s journey from the 1870s to the 1930s.
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Kenilworth Castle and Elizabethan Garden Lost to the world for almost 400 years, the beautifully recreated Elizabethan garden at Kenilworth Castle is a haven of peace and tranquillity. Now you can wander through the pathways and loggia in the footsteps of Robert Dudley, ater the Earl of Leicester, the great ove in the life of the Virgin Queen, and scale the tower he built as he tried to woo her.
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This autumn, take inspiration from our stylish houses, which include a coastal beauty in Kent and a remote ruin in Sweden. Plus, we share the best in educational wall charts
HOME OF THE MONTH THERE IS AN UNDERSTATED charm to Tina Pasco’s seaside home in Deal. Having spent her working life as an antiques dealer specialising in architectural and garden antiques, she was able to draw on her extensive experience and contacts to transform a run-down property just a few minutes from the beach. PAGE 54
44The art of teaching Covering all manner of subject matters, from medical to botanical, our pick of vintage educational wall charts have enduring appeal
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Invite the colours of autumn into your home using dark graphic wall charts that inspire the rest of your room. Combine rich rose and cherry woods with black leather for attractively contrasting textures, while cashmere and sheepskin add cosiness and warmth to a smart warehouse space
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TEACHING Fusing design, science and education, the wall chart of yesterday’s classrooms is today a highly collectable – and pleasingly affordable – art form. ROSANNA MORRIS considers the history and popularity of these beautiful visual aids P H OTO G R A P H S K AT YA D E G R U N WA L D S T Y L I N G A L I AT T E N B O R O U G H
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he 19th century was an exciting time in the classrooms of Europe. It was a golden age of scientific advancement, with naturalists discovering exotic crops and delicacies such as bananas, coconuts and coffee being shipped in. At the same time, education was expanding across the social spectrum. Suddenly, children who had never seen a pineapple or other foreign crops could gaze at illustrations of them on wall charts. Before long, these educational aids encompassed all manner of subjects; the teacher, pointer in hand, would tap the charts and explain how a cocoa bean became chocolate, the life cycle of an insect or the anatomy of homo sapiens. ‘It was the equivalent of a 60in television screen and all in technicolour,’ says Antiques Roadshow specialist Adam Schoon. ‘Hundreds of students could see the chart at the same time. Even a child daydreaming in the back row couldn’t ignore these striking images on the walls.’ Today, educational wall charts are prized by collectors and interior designers. Rendered obsolete in a digital age, these leftovers from bygone classrooms are highly coveted yet still relatively affordable. They are also a key part of the industrial, old schoolroom interiors look that sees institutional pieces such as blackboards, desks, laboratory apparatus and gym lockers making statements in our homes. Wall charts originally appeared during a time of educational reform in Germany. ‘The first wall charts authored expressly for classroom use were produced in 1820 and depicted everyday objects and
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and eras with a modern mural and a vintage wall chart. Retain space between them to keep the scheme contemporary and chic FACING PAGE Blend botanical charts together in a formal arrangement with ornate gilt lighting for a more grown-up look. Mix velvet with felted and Berber wool and silk rugs to give vintage style a glamorous edge
concepts, such as the seasons and animals,’ explains Anna Laurent, author of the book The Botanical Wall Chart: Art from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery. ‘During the following 40 years, they increased in ubiquity, format and subject matter, and were developed for levels of higher education, and specialised curricula.’ As the student population grew, wall charts made it possible for teachers to show supporting visuals in large classrooms. ‘Illustration was considered the perfect format to teach science, as illustrators were able to emphasise certain features H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 47
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Professors, biologists, writers, botanists and illustrators worked together to produce the wall charts of a species,’ says Laurent. Subjects ranged from zoology to history, but botany seemed to lend itself best to the medium. Up until that period, scientific books and illustrations had been exclusively for the wealthy and aristocratic, or for physicians. ‘Knowledge of the natural world had only belonged to the rich and those who could afford to hunt for plants in China and the Middle East,’ says Schoon. ‘But by the late 18th and early 19th centuries it was all happening with modern printing, the Industrial Revolution and a burgeoning middle class.’ Wall charts were circulated in series and lithographically printed – a process invented in 1798 that made it possible to print unlimited copies. The lithograph was printed on paper, and some would be mounted on canvas with wooden rods at either end. Professors, biologists, writers, botanists and illustrators would work together to produce wall charts, books and series. Leopold Kny, professor of plant physiology at the University of Berlin, produced Botanische Wandtafeln (botanical wall panels), a series of 117 highly detailed botanical wall charts published between 1874 and 1911. They are some of the most expensive today, selling for around £1,000–£1,500. Up there with Kny’s are the zoological charts designed by Austrian Dr Paul Pfurtscheller, who produced a series of 39 designs from 1902 onwards with prices up to £2,000. The most iconic and popular wall charts, however, are those with the
ABOVE Using a vintage iron hook to attach a chart to the wall creates a more curated finish than merely hanging from a nail FACING PAGE Gather together charts on a similar theme: fruit and vegetables, for example, are an ideal composition for the kitchen or dining room. In a well-ventilated kitchen, away from the oven, charts can be safely hung from pipework using clamp hangers
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A collection of anatomical charts arranged on and against the walls looks sophisticated in black frames. The rich dark background acts as a foil to the light colouring of the artworks FACING PAGE Enliven bare brick walls with a chalk paper chart that allows you to scribe thoughts and notes, as well as being an intriguing and decorative piece
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signature black backgrounds by teacher Heinrich Jung, biologist Dr Friedrich Quentell, and painter Professor Gottlieb von Koch, published from around 1900, which depict both flora and fauna. Rare originals sell for £600–£800, while updated versions printed in the 1950s are around £250. Other names to look for are Madeleine and André Rossignol, whose French, mid-century charts are distinctive for their sans serif typography, flat colour and clean lines. They tend to sell for around £50. Hundreds of thousands of these educational charts were produced across Europe but many degraded over time or were burnt as they were superseded by new teaching methods. ‘After all, they were produced as teaching tools not fine art,’ says Laurent. ‘Those that survive are collected in dusty cabinets in archives, universities, museums, herbariums, and libraries around the world.’ The popularity of a wall chart depends on the graphics, colours, typography and subject matter. ‘The richer, more luxurious and more exotic the subject, the more people like them,’ says Schoon. ‘How barley develops in a field, for instance, might not have the same appeal as the growth of a palm tree.’ Condition is all-important. ‘Avoid those that are badly creased or have tears, or are taped at the edges,’ says Schoon. ‘The chemical content of the inks means the charts can take on a tan colouration, so avoid these too. They could also be faded, having been in the window of a classroom in the direct sun for years.’ That said, Schoon admits that the charm might well be in the wear and tear – the evidence of a past life faithfully served in a classroom. ‘It’s romantic to think of the thousands of schoolchildren who must have gazed at them,’ he says. Q
The popularity of wall charts depends on graphics, colours, typography and subject matter. The richer… and more exotic the subject, the more people like them
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Jung, Koch & Quentell wall charts, ‘Cockchafer’, £85; ‘Horsetail’, £140, both Wild Strawberry Prints. Mahogany console, £625, The Old Cinema. On console: ‘Newstead’ candle holder, £25, Habitat; West German yellow-and-green stamped vase, £45; vintage ‘Binga’ basket, £32; vintage carved fruit in bowl, £29, all Mustard Vintage; Italian green glass vase, £38, Homeplace; terracotta plant pot, find similar at Petersham Nurseries. Robert Heritage drum dining table, £2,800; Moller rosewood chairs, £3,400 for set of six, all Gazelles of Lyndhurst. On table: black sugar pot, £15.95; black milk jug, £10.95 (just seen); black oak chopping boards, from £29 each; black earthenware mug, £30 for four, all Rockett St George; West German green vase, £38; 1970s-inspired teapot, £38, both Homeplace; oil printed file boxes, £42 each, Retrouvius. On chairs: sheepskin rug, £59, Rockett St George; ‘Safira’ cashmere green throw, £1,249; ‘Era’ cashmere throw, £699, both Oyuna. Extra items seen on cover image: ‘Faro’ rug, £119; green earthenware mug, £30 for four, both Rockett St George
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Walls painted in ‘Pearl’ Colour 100 Absolute Matt Emulsion, £42 per 2.5l, Little Greene. Equine wall chart, £145; butterfly wall chart, £165; Regency-style gilt palm sconce, £275, all Homeplace. ‘Ryegrass’ wall chart, by Jung, Koch & Quentell, £140, Wild Strawberry Prints. ‘Meadow Saffron’ wall chart by Jung, Koch & Quentell, £367, Mighty Vintage at Pamono. ‘Mara’ marble side table, £150; marble candle stick, £30, both Habitat. Evertaut stool, £360, Elemental. ‘Painterly’ rug, £1,400, Amy Kent. On side table: retro
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rust German vase, £28, Homeplace; oil printed file boxes, £42 each, Retrouvius; seagrass basket, £24, Rockett St George; terracotta plant pot, find similar at Petersham Nurseries. Bistro table, £165; antique French sofa, £1,895, both The Old Cinema. Vintage embroidered pear cushion, £35, Mustard Vintage. Robert Gillmor ‘Red Breasted Geese’ cushion, £26.99, We Love Cushions. Vintage Welsh blanket, £294, Retrouvius. ‘Salisbury 5’ stove, £1,080, Chesney’s. Vintage ‘Beni Ourain’ pouffe cover, £195, Yonder Living
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Jung, Koch & Quentell ‘Carp’ wall chart, £95, Wild Strawberry Prints. ‘Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes’ mural, £65 per sq m, Surface View. ‘Cloud’ chair, £650, Rockett St George. Vintage library chair, £1,195, The Old Cinema. ‘Toscani’ cashmere throw, £699, Oyuna. Robert Gillmor ‘Sunset Flight’ cushion, £26.99, We Love Cushions. ‘Painterly’ rug, £1,400, Amy Kent
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Wall charts (from left): Vintage Danish botanical wall chart #5, £35, Mustard Vintage; Czech 1930s botanical wall chart, £48, Otto’s Antiques; mushroom prints, £12.99 each, Wild Strawberry Prints. Coat hangers, from a selection at John Lewis. Oak steps, find similar at The Old Cinema. Plants and pots, find similar at Petersham Nurseries. Lights, find similar at Encore Reclamation. ‘Panda Beni’ vintage rug, £485, Yonder Living. On steps: ‘Greta’ cake stand, £25; ‘Perdita’ splatter oven dish, £20, both Habitat. On sink unit: coffee drip stand, £120, Rockett St George; ‘Malta’ black oven dish, £35, Habitat; ceramic serving board, £22; yellow West German pitcher, £34; blue
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Jung, Koch & Quentell ‘Mushroom’ wall chart, £135, Ars Vivendi Thonhauser at Pamono. Danish modern trolley, £165, Homeplace. Linen sack, £42; iron wall hook, £54, both Retrouvius. ‘Perdita’ splatter oven dish, £20, Habitat
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Walls painted in ‘Attic II’ Absolute Matt Emulsion, £42 per 2.5l, Little Greene. Charts (from left): framed anatomical print, £600, Elemental; framed elementary physiology anatomical chart ‘No.3 Brain’, £495, Mustard Vintage; two 19th-century framed anatomical prints, £195 each, The Old Cinema; framed scheme of circulation chart, £1,200, Elemental; framed elementary physiology anatomical chart ‘No.1 Skeleton’, £495, Mustard Vintage. Stack of mini drawers, £414, Retrouvius. 1970s aluminium lamp with copper and brass details, £95, Homeplace. ‘Aorta’ vases, from £98 each, Jonathan Adler. ‘Westbrook’ bed frame, £199, Dreams. ‘Hay Minimal’ collection bed linen, £50, Nest. ‘Ikat’ stripe cushion, £40, Habitat. ‘Era’ cashmere throw, £699; ‘Teva throw’, £419, both Oyuna. ‘Leo’ rug, £600, Habitat
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Human body chalk paper wall chart 1968, £150, Ars Vivendi Thonhauser at Pamono. Console, £1,450, Andrew Bewick Antiques. Brutalist ceramics, from £58 each, Jonathan Adler. Rug, find similar at Habitat
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Find out more WHERE TO BUY WALL CHARTS K Elemental 020 7247 7588; elemental.uk.com K Homeplace 020 8509 0536; homeplace.co.uk K Mustard Vintage 07713 457297; mustardvintage.com K The Old Cinema 020 8995 4166; theoldcinema.co.uk K Otto’s Antiques 07429 447370; ottosantiques.co.uk K Pamono 0330 8080 485; pamono.co.uk K Vintage Wall Charts at Vinterior 020 3393 0383; vinterior.co K Wild Strawberry Prints via Etsy etsy.com/uk/shop/Wildstrawberryprints
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K Amy Kent 07979 594651; amykent.co.uk K Andrew Bewick Antiques 020 7385 9025; lillieroad.co.uk K Chesney’s 020 7627 1410; chesneys.co.uk K Dreams 0800 652 5090; dreams.co.uk K Encore Reclamation 020 7001 7605; encorereclamation.co.uk K Gazelles of Lyndhurst 07778 020104; gazelles.co.uk K Habitat 0344 499 1111; habitat.co.uk K John Lewis 0345 604 9049; johnlewis.com K Jonathan Adler 020 7589 9563; uk.jonathanadler.com K Little Greene 0845 880 5855; littlegreene.com K Nest 0114 243 3000; nest.co.uk K Oyuna 020 7183 9303; oyuna.com K Petersham Nurseries 020 8940 5230; petershamnurseries.com K Retrouvius 020 8960 6060; retrouvius.com K Rockett St George 01444 253391; rockettstgeorge.co.uk K Surface View 0118 922 1327; surfaceview.co.uk K We Love Cushions 020 8801 5491; welovecushions.co.uk K Yonder Living yonderliving.com
WHAT TO READ K The Art of Instruction: Vintage Educational Charts from the 19th and 20th Centuries by Katrien Van der Schueren (Chronicle Books, 2013) K Basilius Besler’s Florilegium: The Book of Plants by Klaus Walter Littger (Taschen, 2015) K The Botanical Wall Chart: Art from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery by Anna Laurent (Ilex, 2016) K Botanicum by Kathy Willis and Katie Scott (Big Picture Press, 2016)
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A LIFETIME’S
When antiques dealer Tina Pasco took a career break to renovate a new home by the sea, she incorporated her extensive collection of art and objects
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F White squares painted onto the grey concrete floor create a decorative finish in the basement dining room where a set of elegant willow wood chairs surround the circular table. Only once the floor had been stripped of its carpet was it possible to install Tina’s much-loved tall dresser
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or many years Tina Pasco specialized in selling architectural and garden antiques, based in the village of Wingham near Canterbury. ‘Although I lived above the shop, I found it very constricting not having the freedom to do as I wanted, when I wanted.’ After 30 years in the business, the prospect of retirement became irresistible, so she sold up and started looking for a house nearby, as two of her three children lived in the area. ‘When I viewed this shabby, 1850s house close to the seafront in Deal it seemed perfect. There was plenty of scope for improvement and I felt a year or two spent doing it up would keep me busy.’ Tina adds: ‘Deal is a fabulous buzzy town, and with the house only five minutes from the sea I looked forward to blustery early morning dog walks along the beach.’ Tina was fortunate that Spencer, her very capable son, lived nearby. A builder with two young sons of his own, he wanted to spend as much time as possible with them during those early years. ‘He agreed to help me with the house,’ says Tina, ‘on the understanding that we’d take his childcare responsibilities into account and do it at his pace.’ It’s been a mutually beneficial arrangement. ‘Spencer had guaranteed work and I had the pleasure of his company as well as his support and expertise. It took time but there was no rush – I loved my freedom and living beside the seaside.’ When Tina first acquired it, the house had a very different look. An ugly porch obscured the elegant facade and a cheap, PVC conservatory did H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 5 5
The Rangemaster dual fuel ‘Leckford 90’ cooker fits neatly in an alcove under built-in shelves and adds to the retro styling of the basement kitchen FACING PAGE FROM TOP A comfortable leather club chair by the fireside in the dining room has seen better days but adds to the rustic charm of the house. The painting of the Thames above the fireplace is by Tina’s grandfather Herbert James Cuming; Tina’s home in Deal is close to the sea
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Tina’s taste is for understated, classic design. She favours English furniture of the 18th and early 19th centuries with the occasional Scandinavian piece nothing for the back. The interior was filled with clutter and the carpets and wallpaper were a heady psychedelic whirl of pattern and colour. But the house had good proportions and Tina could see the potential. Initially she concentrated on restoring the exterior. The unsightly porch was demolished and the half-glazed front door was replaced with an authentic, panelled version sourced from the local reclamation yard for £30. ‘Carl at the local reclamation yard became our go-to source for everything. Whatever we needed would sooner or later miraculously appear in his yard,’ Tina says. After the front elevation was repaired and painted, the front garden was planted up with a symmetrical arrangement of pyramid box topiary. ‘From the outside it looked perfect but inside it was a different story. Chaos and mayhem!’ she laughs. Having brought much of the furniture from her larger, former home, along with a lifetime’s collection of much-loved art and objects, meant that space to move, let alone work, was very tight. ‘We managed it at a snail’s pace, floor by floor,’ she remembers. First to go was the lurid wallpaper and then the swirly carpets, which came up to reveal floorboards covered in a thick layer of sticky black paint. ‘Sanding it off was painstaking work, but when I look at the boards now, bleached white, I’m delighted with the result.’ Spencer’s input was invaluable, she says. ‘He knew instinctively what sort of look I was after, and by panelling the walls in the garden room and building the sitting room cupboards and bookcases, both rooms were transformed.’ One of the major changes made by Tina was to move the kitchen from the ground floor down to the basement,
Profile T H E OW N E R Tina Pasco, who runs antiques shop Ashley Scott with her daughter (instagram.com/ shopashleyscott). T H E P RO P E RT Y An 1850s house close to the sea in Deal, Kent, arranged over three floors including the newly opened basement.
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Tina’s son Spencer panelled the walls of the garden room, adding to the period look by painting them ‘Old White’ by Farrow & Ball to emphasise the airy ambience. The 19th-century bergère and crystal lantern are both French FACING PAGE A set of framed architectural prints hangs above the 19th-century Swedish painted wooden bench, where the unembellished pale pink plaster walls set the tone for the rest of the house
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Juxtaposing pieces of different styles and materials is part of the look. I like houses that seem as though they have evolved over generations rather than a fortnight.
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ABOVE A pair of tall shelf units with panelled cupboards built by Spencer flank the fireplace in the sitting room. An antique English gilded overmantel mirror bought during The Art & Antiques Fair at Olympia adds faded grandeur and reflected light. Tina bought the painting on the easel from Debbie at Deal Saturday market RIGHT The coffee table in the sitting room is inset with metallic studs FACING PAGE Tina playfully mixes antiques and objects in widely differing styles to create an informal effect. A fine figure painting of a semi-nude youth was bought from Fontaine Decorative. It hangs on the wall above an 18th-century mahogany bureau. The Chesterfield was bought secondhand for £50
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where the adjoining room is now the dining room. ‘I thought I’d have to sell my old dresser because it was too tall to fit in, but by the time Spencer had removed the carpet, underlay and blockboard, there was just enough height. Spencer painted the old screed floor in alternate squares of white, which contrasted with the grey concrete looks great. The outlay was minimal; a tin of white undercoat and another of varnish!’ Tina’s antiques-dealing past has provided her with many treasures, helped by rising at dawn to trawl the antiques fairs such as Newark and Ardingly. ‘I bought my stuffed crows for a tenner early one morning at Newark, where I bought most of the mirrors and
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BELOW Tina’s formula of using a single painting to create a focal point is repeated throughout the house. Through the open door into the bedroom, a decorative work hangs above an antique iron bedstead that has been dressed with crisp white linen
ABOVE Tina created a period-style family bathroom using antique furniture and sanitary fittings found on eBay, such as the double-ended bath that was installed in the centre of the room FACING PAGE The walls of the attic guest bedroom are lined with tongue and groove panelling painted in Farrow & Ball’s ‘Old White’ shade
pictures. The gilded English overmantel mirror in the living room I found at Olympia, while the 1930s nude above the bureau in the living room came from Battersea Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair.’ Sources closer to home include the weekly Deal Saturday market and the Brocante Fair that is held on the green in Deal every summer. Tina’s taste is for understated, classic design. She favours English furniture of the 18th and early 19th centuries with the occasional Scandinavian piece, such as the painted wooden seat in the hallway, added to the mix. ‘Juxtaposing pieces of different styles and materials is part of the look.
I like houses that seem as though they have evolved over generations rather than a fortnight.’ Now that the house is finished, Tina is once again involved in the antiques trade. Together with her daughter Ashley, she is running their shared antiques shop, which is conveniently close by in Deal. ‘Retirement was a pleasant concept but I’m not ready for it yet,’ Tina explains. ‘Renovating the house with Spencer gave me such a sense of satisfaction that I’m keen to start all over again on another. I think I’m happiest when covered in plaster dust and tripping over piles of rubble on my way to bed.’ Q H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 6 3
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Returning to the home in which she grew up, Clementina Stiegler has completed the renovation that was started by her artist parents F E AT U R E J O L E E V E R S P H OTO G R A P H S P E N N Y W I N C E R
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here is an old French clock that hangs on the wall above Clementina Stiegler’s dining table. It’s handsome, but has no hands. ‘That was my father’s idea,’ she smiles. ‘He said, “If you have friends for dinner, you don’t want them looking up to check the time”.’ Instead, dinners were for conversation and stories. ‘Always so many stories – my family does love to tell a tale,’ adds Clementina. And what tremendous stories they were… Her father was the 20th-century artist Caziel, born on the eve of the First World War in a Polish town not far from Kraków. Clementina grew up hearing of how, as a young boy, he and his family had fled through their war-torn homeland to revolutionary Moscow and then into the frozen wastes of Siberia. Of how, aged 32, he left Poland for Paris to take up a scholarship at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he caught the eye of Edouard Vuillard and went on to work alongside Georges Braque, Constantin Brancusi, Le Corbusier and Jean Arp. How Picasso took him under his wing, once clasping him in a bear hug, saying: ‘You and I, we are the same; artists in exile.’ And how a British society beauty – Clementina’s mother – fell for this ‘rogue, penniless artist’ and ran away to France to be with him. Then, finally, how Clementina’s parents’ whirlwind romance reached a gentler equilibrium when they moved to England and bought this house on the Somerset Levels. ‘War and struggle had followed my father around. But when my
Profile T H E OW N E R Clementina Stiegler (left) lives here with her partner Ben Van Sommeren. THE P RO P E RT Y A converted mill house in Somerset (above). It has been in the process of renovation for many years. On the ground floor there is an open-plan living space with kitchen and dining area, a sitting room, drawing room, studio and loo. Upstairs there are three bedrooms (two en suite).
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This was a home my father created himself, by hand, modifying the house and adding new rooms along one side
parents came here, he found love, a family and a home,’ Clementina says, simply. This converted mill house surrounded by meadows and waterways is now Clementina’s home, which she shares with her partner Ben Van Sommeren, an equestrian trainer. When artists Caziel and his wife Catherine Sinclair pitched up here to the bemusement of locals in 1968, Clementina was just 10. ‘Until then, we’d 6 6 H&A O C T O B E R 2 017
lived in an idyllic farmhouse outside Paris, where I ran around the village with all the other barefoot ragamuffins,’ she says. But with this house in the West Country, it was time to put down stronger roots. ‘This was a home my father created himself, by hand, modifying the house and adding new rooms along one side, using shed timbers, old bricks, whatever was to hand,’ she says.
ABOVE Polished concrete flooring runs through this newer section of the house, which has replaced a hotchpotch of rooms. The kitchen is by Magnet and the bespoke sofa is by Sofa Magic PREVIOUS PAGE Her father’s clock looks down on the dining table by Richard Lyons at Midelwood and the pendant lamps by Lee Broom
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Clementina moved back here when her son Max was a baby and has worked as an artist, stylist and florist. Gradually, she found time to turn her attention to reconverting the house, picking up where her father left off. ‘This design had been living in my head for years,’ says Clementina, who brought in Andrea Pyle, architectural designer at O2i Design, to turn her imagined space into
ABOVE Caziel’s artwork hangs above a simple side table, which was a gift from Picasso. The portrait to the left is of Caziel by his wife Catherine Sinclair. Clementina’s dogs, Widget and Poncho, have the run of the house LEFT The architectural rework of the ground floor involved opening up the warren of small rooms to create one lightfilled, open-plan space. The gallery-like walls are perfectly suited to Caziel’s larger works on canvas
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Picasso loved Polish folk art, so he was already familiar with my father’s work a reality. The house’s old and new sections are now coherently joined and the main living and dining area is the hub. ‘I have a feeling that, if my father had the money back then, this is very close to what he would have created,’ explains Clementina. ‘A big room with lots of light and plenty of space for paintings.’ The dining room walls are lined with works by Caziel, but there is also a small drawing by Picasso, a gift from the artist when the two men met. ‘Picasso loved Polish folk art, so he was already familiar with my father’s work,’ she says. ‘Picasso was like a god to artists by then, but had time to encourage my father.’ There are also numerous portraits of Clementina’s mother by Caziel. ‘He always called her ‘My Angel’ and painted her over and over,’ she says. Her mother Catherine was the daughter of Sir Archibald Sinclair, Churchill’s right-hand man during the war and one-time leader of the Liberal Party. ‘She was a debutante, expected to marry a
ABOVE In the drawing room, Clementina’s parents’ work is displayed side by side. The sculptures on the mantelpiece and the painting on the right are by Catherine. Caziel’s work hangs above the fireplace FACING PAGE The sculpted busts that are displayed on top of the bookcase are by Catherine Sinclair
duke or some such,’ says Clementina, ‘but she couldn’t bear all those stuffed-shirt suitors.’ Instead, Catherine defied convention, leaving London society to study art in Paris, where she met Caziel in 1952. Their love affair remained hidden from her parents for four years, but when Catherine finally introduced Caziel to them, they were ‘charmed and delighted’. After getting married, the couple lived in France until moving to this house in England. H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 69
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Catherine’s sculptures and paintings are well represented and have a more British, domestic feel than Caziel’s Catherine’s own sculptures and paintings are also well represented in the house and have a more British, domestic feel than Caziel’s. As was often the way (think of Gwen John or Winifred Nicholson), her career took a back seat to her husband’s. ‘But it was the era, not my father, that held her back,’ says Clementina. ‘They painted side by side and, if they weren’t painting, they talked incessantly about art – they dreamed about it.’ When her parents pitched up here almost 50 years ago, Somerset was a little-known haven for artistic types. ‘These days, [international art gallery] Hauser & Wirth is nearby and my neighbours, the Temperley family, whose daughter Alice is the fashion designer, bring lots of creative people here,’ says Clementina. Together with her son Max, who is marketing manager at leading art fair Masterpiece London, Clementina is looking after the artistic legacy of this house. Her next goal is to get a screenplay about Caziel’s extraordinary life put into production. ‘They did the best for me and now it’s my turn to look after their work,’ she says. ‘This house is our family home, but it has so many more stories to tell.’ Q
ABOVE An early work by Catherine Sinclair against ornate ‘Brunnsgatan’ wallpaper by Swedish brand Duro RIGHT A portrait of Clementina’s son, Max, by Catherine Sinclair hangs above an heirloom bureau FACING PAGE The painting over the bath is an early work by Caziel. Clementina painted the bath ‘Green Smoke’ by Farrow & Ball
Whitford Fine Art in London (020 7930 9332; whitfordfineart.com) holds regular exhibitions of Caziel’s work
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A VIEW ON A ROOM Antiques expert JUDITH MILLER tours her favourite room from this issue’s houses – the drawing room in Clementina Stiegler’s converted mill house
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What makes this such an inviting room This drawing room isn’t simply a practical and comfortable work and living space. Nor is it just a pleasing fusion of 18th and 19th-century furnishings along with mid 20th-century fine art and sculpture. No, the antique Indian rug is an heirloom from the homeowner’s great aunt, the artist Ethel Sands; the chimney piece and upholstered armchair were junk shop bought and refurbished by the homeowner’s parents when she was a child growing up here. Her parents were the artists Caziel and Catherine Sinclair, whose paintings and sculptures adorn the walls and mantelshelf. So, above all, this room is a loving reminder and a celebration of artistic heritage.
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This 19th-century reproduction of an 18th-century ‘Adam’style chimney piece has been stripped of its original painted finish to reveal the underlying pine wood from which it was made. The style was an 18th-century variant of neoclassicism, formulated by the Scottish architect and designer Robert Adam (1728–92), who studied first hand classical Roman architecture and decoration in Rome and Pompeii. Configured symmetrically like the entrance to a temple, and comprising a pair of columnar pilasters supporting an entablature and frieze all based on the ‘Orders’ of classical architecture, the chimney piece is also carved with discreet rows of decoration known as ‘fluting’.
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The painting above the chimney piece is by the eminent 20th-century artist Caziel (1906–1988). Polish-born, Caziel moved to Britain in the late 1950s, following his marriage to his second wife, the Scottish artist Catherine Sinclair. He became a naturalised British citizen in 1975. His formative years were spent in Warsaw, Paris, and Aix-en-Provence, where influence and inspiration was largely Post-Impressionist: especially the works of Gauguin, Matisse, Cézanne, and Picasso (who befriended Caziel). Although most of Caziel’s work became rigorously geometric in the 1950s, evolving into pure abstraction during the 1960s and beyond, this painting – Caziel lovingly imagining his wife Catherine as a young woman working on a dairy farm during the Second World War – recalls his earlier, more figurative style.
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The sculptures on the mantelshelf are by Clementina’s mother Catherine Sinclair (1919–2007). While most are wood-carved – three in black ebony – during the 1950s, the three female forms in the centre are clay. Sculpted in the 1980s, they may originally have been intended as figural finials for the lids of ceramic cooking pots. Sinclair’s considerable talents as a sculptor also extended to painting: the portrait of Clementina as a child to the right of the fireplace and the still life garden landscape on the left wall are both by her. The Bloomsbury Group-esque composition of the still life is no coincidence – while growing up, Sinclair moved in circles that included artists such as Duncan Grant and Roger Fry, while her aunt was the Fitzroy Street Group artist-hostess Ethel Sands.
Throughout the course of the 18th and 19th centuries the practical ‘impedimenta of the hearth’ – the tools required to make, sustain, and clear domestic fires – became increasingly decorative. A figural and foliate decorated cast-iron fireback, and a brass fender, poker and tongs – the former with pine cone finials, the latter with rope-twist shafts – are accompanied here by some particularly splendid wall-hung bellows. Housing a brass studsecured leather airbag, its wooden frame is red and black lacquerware decorated with oriental figures in a chinoiserie style.
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BUTTON-BACK ARMCHAIR
While the basic shape or form of this 19th-century, buttonback, leather upholstered armchair has its roots in French designs that emerged in the 18th century, it is in fact English. However, the ‘show’ wood of the frame also tips its hat to the bold and elaborate carving found on some continental chairs of the period, most notably from Italy. The motifs employed, primarily scrolling foliate forms, are also stylistically diverse, drawing on Renaissance, Palladian, classical revival, and even rococo precedents – a stylistic eclecticism typical of the mid to late Victorian period.
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The mirror over the drawing room fireplace is set in an early 18thcentury carved frame that John inherited. The wheeled fire grate, designed by George Bullock in 1815, was found in a junk yard in Wisbech. The woven wool carpet was bought in central Sardinia
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A decorative painter specialising in trompe l’oeil paint effects and finishes, John Sutcliffe has filled his Cambridgeshire townhouse with colour, visual trickery and quirky details F E AT U R E JA N E T G L E E S O N P H OTO G R A P H S H U N T L E Y H E D W O R T H
Veronese masterpiece featuring a sultry Venus and her slumbering Adonis is perhaps not what you’d expect to find on the ceiling of a 19th-century Cambridgeshire townhouse. But the extravagant 17th-century Venetian scene that adorns the drawing room in John and Gabrielle Sutcliffe’s home isn’t all that it seems. ‘Many years ago, when I was designing a new logo for the Royal Academy, the Genius of Venice exhibition was on. This was the advertising poster for it that was used in London’s Underground. It fitted my ceiling almost perfectly, so I stuck it on a piece of stretched canvas and varnished it, and it’s been there ever since,’ explains John. As a decorative painter, John specialises in marbling, stencilling, trompe-l’oeil painting and colour mixing. He worked with paint and wallpaper company Farrow & Ball to develop its range of colours for the National Trust, and has written two books on the subject of colour: The Lost Colours of the Cyclades and The Colours of Rome, both published by The Old School Press. ‘I created many of the names [for Farrow & Ball] that caused a lot of hilarity. ‘Sutcliffe Green’ – now discontinued – was named for me, but my favourite name, ‘Blackened’, is a shade of white!’ Having lived here for 30 years, John and his musician wife Gabrielle have turned their home into a showcase for his art and their collected treasures. ‘Everything you see is down to us, although we didn’t do much in the way of structural alteration,’ he says. Some of the pictures and works of art that fill the house are inherited, while others have been bought. ‘I can’t pass a charity shop without going in,’ admits John. ‘My best find was a tiny 19th-century Chinese silver pagoda.’ H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 75
A stencilled acanthus leaf design, inspired by a Colefax and Fowler wallpaper, adorns the walls of the library. John renovated the screen using antique prints and borders designed by him. The Cupid clock on the table is one of John’s most treasured possessions and was inherited from his parents
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The book-lined walls of the library are broken up with small pictures displayed at regular intervals. A pair of red lacquer table lamps flank a 19th-century lacquer box on a serpentine card table
We like red because it’s warm and a good background colour for pictures Not surprisingly, colour plays a key part in the decorative schemes, and shades of red recur throughout the interior. ‘We like red because it’s warm and a good background colour for pictures,’ explains John. From attic to basement, staircases, landings and hall are painted in Farrow & Ball’s ‘Porphyry Pink’. The walls of the main bedroom are covered in a red printed cotton fabric that was bought from Next, largely to disguise the poor condition of the walls. In the library, John has stencilled a red wall with an acanthus leaf design to replicate an expensive Colefax and Fowler wallpaper. While in the drawing room, walls that were first painted in archive Farrow & Ball shade ‘Ciara Yellow’ 78 H&A O C T O B E R 2 017
have been given a reddish wash for a snug effect. Given his profession, perhaps it’s not surprising that illusion and humour are key elements in many of John’s schemes. Throughout the house there are clever trompe l’oeil touches. These include a Venetian-style mirror in the library (page 76) that is in fact made from plastic that has been painted to look old. Light and shade are also manipulated to create visual surprise. ‘I enjoy contrasts and the effects you can get by having light and dark areas,’ John explains. The staircase leading from the hall to the kitchen on the lower ground floor is unlit, so John fixed a convex mirror to the ceiling and surrounded it with printed architectural mouldings
ABOVE LEFT A convex mirror hangs over the stairs leading to the kitchen. Above the four plaster replicas of Thorvaldsen roundels, John cut an identically sized peephole to amuse his grandchildren ABOVE RIGHT The glazed door in the kitchen looks out over topiary in the formal garden
Profile T H E OW N E R S John Sutcliffe, a decorative painter and trompe l’oeil specialist and his wife, musician Gabrielle Sutcliffe. T H E P RO P E RT Y A terraced house in Cambridge, built in 1842. It has three floors, plus an attic storey and four bedrooms.
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From top to bottom, the walls of the staircase are painted in Farrow & Ball’s ‘Porphyry Pink’. The colour is echoed in the lamp standing on the late Georgian card table. Beneath is a 19th-century Chinese lacquer box, one of several that John inherited
I don’t think our style has changed much, and if things are a bit battered, it really doesn’t matter. It’s all part of history
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(page 78). ‘This was a trick used by the architect Sir John Soane,’ says John. At the bottom of the staircase, a wall is decorated with four modern casts of classical low-relief roundels by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770– 1844). Above, a hole of identical size has been cut through the wall. ‘As you come down the dark staircase and into the light kitchen you find a little peephole – I made it partly to amuse the grandchildren, and partly to amuse us,’ he laughs. John’s talent as a painter has also helped to furnish the house. The drawing room sofa was specially made by a furniture maker who traded it in return for one of John’s floral paintings. Meanwhile John’s own practical and design skills are much in evidence throughout the interior. He designed a pair of X-frame Regency-style stools that sit in the library and a refectory table for the kitchen. A screen in the drawing room was re-covered and decorated with old prints and modern borders and bows. ‘I designed them for the National Trust many years ago and still keep a huge stock of printed sheets under the bed,’ he says. A striking petalled ceiling rose in the library is also an assemblage of old and new. ‘It came from a friend who rescued it from a demolition site in 30-odd pieces. I repaired and gilded it, and have since made a second one from a series of moulds.’ Although John still works as a decorative painter, after three decades in the same house the couple have decided that now is the time to downsize and have put their home on the market. As many of their old possessions as they can accommodate will go with them. ‘I don’t think our style has changed much, and if things are a bit battered, it really doesn’t matter. It’s all part of history.’ Q
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Antique copies of Bertel Thorvaldsen’s small-scale works are popular amongst connoisseurs of neoclassical art, while modern replicas are available for admirers on more modest budgets
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Autumn, part of a set of four, $3,800, Timothy Corrigan; Day and Nightt c1825, brass repoussé, £1,449.85, for the pair, Acroterion at 1st Dibs; roundel 5 depicting Winter, r £222, Amiska
Born in 1770 in Copenhagen to Icelandic immigrants, Thorvaldsen’s beginnings were surprisingly humble given his later success. His father earned a living as a wood carver, sculpting the decorative details that adorned merchant ships, and it was from him that Bertel first learned to sculpt. It soon became clear that he was unusually talented, and at just 11 years old he was admitted to The Royal Danish Academy of Art. Within six years, Thorvaldsen had won a stipend to travel to Rome in order to continue his education. It was there that he sealed his reputation as a sculptor of note, attracting praise from Antonio Canova, the most important sculptor of the day. Thorvaldsen quickly established a large workshop in Rome and was soon receiving commissions from all over Europe. He remained in Italy for 40 years, and during that time he produced a large body of work including portrait busts, full-size figures, relief panels and roundels. Night and Day (1815) are now two of his best-known works, based on the writings of the Greek traveller and geographer Pausanias (AD 143– 176). The two roundels, designed to be displayed together, were so popular in their time that
Thorvaldsen himself made several versions including panels for the 6th Duke of Devonshire. Other copies made at various times over the last two centuries, in marble, bronze and plaster, hang in museums and private collections across Europe. The originals are placed opposite one another in the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen. While the originals of Thorvaldsen’s works rarely make their way onto the open market, replicas of his relief panels do come up at auction from time to time. Prices reflect the age, provenance and quality of the pieces. In July 2016, Night and Day, carved in ivory and attributed to Benjamin Cheverton (1794–1876) sold at Sotheby’s for £10,000. However, it’s not necessary to have a huge bank balance – good quality, modern plaster replicas from companies such as Modern Souvenir in Bath are available for as little as £30. Q The Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen not only contains a large number of the artist’s works, including his preliminary sketches and maquettes, but also his personal collection of classical paintings and sculptures. Experiencing Thorvaldsen’s work alongside the art that inspired him gives a fascinating insight into the artist’s life. His works can also be seen at the Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Do check works are on display before planning your visit. H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 81
THE SOUND OF
SILENCE Seduced S d by its isollattion and d sollitud de, Kriisttina Spur embraced the challenge of bringing an abandoned 19th-ccenturyy silk impor ter’ss villa back to o life
Styling Helene Holmstedt
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The library is painted dark brown and the books are arranged according to theme and subject: art, interior design, antiques, manor houses etc. A series of reliefs by Bertel Thorvaldsen hang above the shelving unit FACING PAGE Union Jack cushions signal Philip’s love of all things English. The Chippendale-style chairs are 1920s reproduction. A pretty painted chest is home to Philip’s collection of blue-and-white china. The mirrors are Italian baroque
Many of Kristina’s possessions are either flea market finds or family heirlooms. The vintage sofa upholstered in red velvet and contrasting silk was a present from a relative, while the black floral chaise was picked up at auction. The dramatic wallpaper, chosen because it worked with both the sofa and the chaise, is ‘Christophe Black’ by Sandberg
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Profile T H E OW N E R Kristina Spur, a journalist, lives here with her two sons, Oscar and Gustav. T H E P RO P E RT Y Built in 1887, the villa was originally a silk importer’s summer residence. Upstairs are three bedrooms and a bathroom; downstairs, there is a kitchen, a sitting room, a wide hallway, an office and a library.
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entrance hall was covered with hardboard panels when Kristina moved in. It was only once she started renovating the house that she discovered the original details RIGHT Kristina was charmed by the villa’s whitewashed exterior. The house was built in 1887 for a silk merchant as his summer residence FACING PAGE
Kristina’s favourite antiques are the pieces she has inherited, such as this sideboard and threelegged tribal chair
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But once inside, the house was a virtual ruin. The owner had died 50 years earlier, and his children, unable to decide what to do with the property or the extensive estate on which it stood, had simply abandoned the place. The roof was almost non-existent and downstairs, on the ground floor, all the ceilings and walls were covered with huge damp patches. ‘There was no electricity, running water or central heating,’ recalls Kristina, but none of this mattered, she says, because she had already been won over by the location. ‘I fell for the solitude, the remoteness – there are no sounds out here, except perhaps the owls.’ Despite the lack of a roof, Kristina could see that the supporting beams – dating back to 1887, when the house was built – were still sound. So she struck a deal and within a couple of months, she and her two sons, Oscar and Gustav, who were three and five at the time, had relocated from urban Stockholm to the remote ruin. Half a century’s neglect meant that, as well as needing a new roof, Kristina would have to extensively renovate every room in the house. And work was slow. ‘We had to use a camping toilet and fetch our water from McDonald’s in the nearest town,’ she laughs. ‘Oscar and Gustav thought it was a fantastic adventure.’ The house had last been decorated in the 1950s, at a time when it was fashionable to cover elaborate carvings, banisters and panelling with smooth hardboard and plasterboard, hailed at the time as signalling an end to time-consuming dusting. ‘Everything had to be straight and
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Kristina has always loved antiques and vintage designs, and is a keen collector of old tins and textiles simple back then,’ says Kristina, who was delighted to discover all the original doors, picture rails and panelling when she started to rip out the featureless plasterboards. ‘It’s been wonderful finding things I had no idea were there.’ Although she’d never done any DIY before, Kristina undertook most of the restoration work herself. ‘I’d never bought so many tools in my life!’ She laughs at the memory, adding that she’s currently considering investing in a vertical saw. ‘Because the house is so big, things like skirting boards become very expensive; it’s cheaper to make your own from inexpensive lengths of board.’ Kristina has always loved antiques and vintage designs, and she is a keen collector of old tins and textiles, her eye clearly drawn to colour and pattern. ‘I think white is boring,’ she says, explaining why she eschewed the traditional Scandinavian palette of pale greys, blues and yellows, in favour of rich patterns and warm colours. The dark, gold-flecked 1940s wallpaper in Gustav’s room was already there when they moved in. ‘He likes the Egyptians – all their golden artefacts – and he’s interested in old objects and wanted the cosiness that came from that. So we decided to leave the paper untouched.’
ABOVE The library has yet to be renovated and retains its original wallpaper,
which has survived despite damp and neglect. The portraits on the wall are of Kristina’s grandmother and grandfather FACING PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT The wallpaper in the kitchen is a favourite design and was used in her last three houses. Some of her extensive collection of vintage tins are displayed along a window shelf; Kristina found a roll of the orange wallpaper when she moved into the house, and used it to fill one of the original wall panels. The chair is an antique teacher’s desk chair; in the kitchen, an old merchant’s chest provides attractive storage; Kristina’s love of patterns and colours is evident on the upper landing, which she has papered with a small geometric design in red
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She wanted the house to feel relaxed and welcoming, Kristina says: ‘It shouldn’t matter if it’s a bit messy. I want guests to feel that they’re just as much at home here as I am; that it’s perfectly OK to put your feet up on the desk or curl up on the sofa.’ And to that end, she chose to furnish her home with old fixtures, fittings and furniture over new, adding flea market and antique market finds to the pieces she had already accumulated over the years. Now, 11 years on, with much of the restoration complete, Kristina admits that living in such a dilapidated house with two young children was something of a challenge. ‘But I enjoyed it. You just have to look away from the mould stains on the ceiling and focus on what is beautiful.’ Q 8 8 H&A O C T O B E R 2 017
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bedroom is decorated with an art nouveau-style wallpaper from Duro. The floor is covered with an antique Turkish rug ABOVE RIGHT The floor of the bathroom is tiled with large squares of Gotland limestone, and the graphic floral wallpaper adds warmth. The French doors look out across the garden LEFT The stained glass window between the hallway and the bathroom was sourced from a local flea market
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ABOVE TOP Regency cabinet c1815, £1,250, Lorfords ABOVE Floral canister, £7.98, FabulousFindsByLove at Etsy RIGHT Antique hand-carved Gustavian wall clock, £1,600, Pamono
BELOW American stained glass window, £1,651, Architectural Artifacts, Inc at 1st Dibs
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ABOVE ‘Christophe’ wallpaper by Sandberg, £89 per roll, Jane Clayton & Co
Kristina’s Swedish home is filled with rich colour and pattern, as well as an eclectic mix of antiques BELOW Antique Georgian shop counter 1820s, £1,733, Pamono RIGHT Ca’Pietra cement encaustic Salisbury pattern tile (box of 12), £40.79, Period Property Store
ABOVE ‘Sterling’ armchair in Liberty ABOVE Schneider French art deco lamp, £2,272.09 for a pair, Art Deco Ceramic Glass Light at 1st Dibs
fabric, £1,499, John Lewis
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bowl, £16, B&Q LEFT 18th-century pestle
and mortar, £575, Lorfords
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A Palace of
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JANET GLEESON explores Waddesdon Manor, the sumptuous
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The theatrically pinnacled and turreted faCade of Waddesdon Manor, built for Ferdinand de Rothschild, might mimic the style of a 16th-century French Renaissance chateau, but the main house was in fact constructed in the late 1800s
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Visiting Waddesdon Manor ADDRESS Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0JH. 01296 820414; waddesdon.org.uk ENTRY TO HOUSE & GROUNDS £20 adult, £10 children (free for National Trust members) THE HOUSE IS OPEN Wednesday–Friday 12pm–4pm, Saturday–Sunday 11am–4pm. Grounds closed 6th–10th November. See the website for Christmas opening hours
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t’s impossible not to be amazed by Waddesdon Manor. Leaving behind the picturesque Buckinghamshire village that shares its name, you travel along a drive that crosses parkland and spirals up a densely wooded hill. Then suddenly, there it is, in all its extravagantly pinnacled and turreted glory: a French Renaissance-style chateau, improbably perched on a Home Counties hill. The surprise visitors feel at Waddesdon’s sudden emergence is exactly what its creator Ferdinand de Rothschild intended. ‘It’s all an amazing piece of theatre,’ explains Rachel Jacobs, curator at Waddesdon. ‘The house was never built to be lived in, just for weekend house parties during the summer months. If you were a guest here, you would experience the collection, visit the Renaissance Museum, then the novelties in
the grounds, such as the Glasshouses, Aviary and the German-themed Dairy, where you might try your hand at milking cows that had Meissen name tags.’ With the help of French architect Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur, it took Ferdinand six years to transform the featureless estate he had bought from the Duke of Marlborough into an extravagantly landscaped French-themed fantasy. The first phase was completed in 1883. ‘Ferdinand was impatient because he thought it took so long, but Disraeli is supposed to have said that if God had a Rothschild to build the world, he wouldn’t have needed an extra day to rest,’ reveals Jacobs. Entering the house, the first room visitors saw was the Red Drawing Room. ‘It’s a narrow house, and you feel the building’s dimensions straightaway, with the
ABOVE The Grey Drawing Room, in which Ferdinand’s guests were entertained after dinner. The walls are lined with painted panelling bought from an 18th-century Parisian house. The portrait of Lady Jane Halliday (right) is one of three in the room by Sir Joshua Reynolds FACING PAGE The Savonnerie carpet in the Red Drawing Room is an exact replica of the original, which is now in storage. The reproduction is so precise, it even includes signs of wear. The carpet, originally made for Louis XIV for the Long Gallery at the Louvre, is one of 93 in the collection at Waddesdon
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Against this elegant French backdrop, full-length portraits by Gainsborough and Reynolds serenely gazed down at the assembled guests formal parterres and fountains unfolding straight ahead of you,’ explains Rachel. ‘The relationship between the richness of the interior and the exterior is very much part of every room you enter.’ Furniture made for royal French palaces by Riesener, Sèvres porcelain and Savonnerie carpets made for the Louvre are among what Ferdinand liked to call his ‘gimcracks’ and fill the Red Drawing Room with an overwhelming opulence, and something more besides. ‘The choice of French style is partly a statement of otherness,’ says Jacobs. ‘Ferdinand was a foreigner and he was Jewish. But here, he is using the very symbols of power of the French court.’ Against this elegant French backdrop, full-length portraits by Gainsborough and Reynolds serenely gazed down at the assembled guests. ‘It was commented at the time that this was a great place to compare the two rival portraitists of the 18th century. Ferdinand loved paintings of beautiful women and interesting characters,’ says Jacobs. On either side of the door hang portraits of the Prince of Wales (later George IV) by Gainsborough and his close friend John Hayes St Leger by Reynolds. ‘Hanging them together is a public statement about the importance of friendship.’ Ferdinand’s love of art was honed from an early age. One of the rarest pieces of Sèvres porcelain at Waddesdon is a ship’s vase in the Grey Drawing Room. ‘He bought it when he was only 21 years old. He hadn’t come into his inheritance yet and he had to pay for it in instalments,’ says Jacobs. He went on to buy two others. They are three of only 10 in the world. A vivid sense of what it must have been like to attend a sumptuous Waddesdon banquet comes when you enter the Dining Room next door. The table is set with a Meissen dinner service and rose-filled vases extend along the length of the table. The
ABOVE Sumptuously gilded seating is arranged with 18th-century Sèvres plaque furniture, such as the secretaire to the right of the fireplace. The vases on the mantelpiece are in a highly prized colour known in Ferdinand’s day as Rose Pompadour LEFT Ferdinand bought the Sèvres Pot Pourri vase in the shape of a ship when he was just 21, before he came into his inheritance FACING PAGE The table in the Dining Room is laid as it would have been during one of Ferdinand’s famous weekend house parties with extravagant flower arrangements and a Meissen dinner service. The 18thcentury rococo mirrors were designed by Nicolas Pineau
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The roll-top desk in the Morning Room is by Jean-Henri Riesener and was originally made for Louis XVI’s brother, the Comte de Provence FACING PAGE Ferdinand’s portrait sits on an easel in front of Gainsborough’s portrait of Francis Nicholls, The Pink Boy, 1782
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Queen Victoria invited herself to lunch in 1890 and was impressed by the electric lighting, and the menu setting is based on a photograph of the room taken in Ferdinand’s day. ‘These flowers are silk, but originally they were fresh. Just imagine what the room must have smelled like,’ says Jacobs. In the anteroom Conservatory, next door, musicians played and marble wine fountains flanked the door. Those seated one side of the table could look out on to the gardens. Those on the other side had beautiful, flower-filled Beauvais tapestries to admire. At night, the light from two huge chandeliers and a pair of puttiheld candelabrum, which perch either side of the chimney piece, was reflected in five gilt-framed mirrors that came from the Paris house of the Duc de Villars. With such luxury on offer no wonder a roll call of illustrious guests came to visit. Queen Victoria invited herself to lunch in 1890 and was impressed by the newly installed electric lighting, and the menu. She sent her chef to learn the recipes she had enjoyed, and presented Ferdinand with the bust of herself that stands on a table in the Baron’s Room, his inner sanctum. Only favoured guests were ever invited to this part of the house. For all his largesse, at heart Ferdinand was a reserved man of finicky taste, preferring to eat plain food while the guests feasted, and sometimes retreating to his domain to escape the social demands made on him by his visitors. The writer Henry James said that he liked Ferdinand and could have been more friendly if ‘they had met in conditions less inhuman,’ referring to Waddesdon. Other guests also had their quibbles. The Shah of Persia was insulted that the Prince of Wales was unable to visit at the same time as him, and stayed in his room sulking. ‘The only thing that cheered him up was seeing Ferdinand’s poodle, Poupon,
performing tricks along the East Gallery, and watching the musical Elephant Automaton repeatedly play,’ says Jacobs. With its twitching gold trunk and twirling jewelled flowers, the Elephant Automaton remains a favourite with visitors today. ‘We still make it work once a month, and it features on YouTube and even has its own Twitter account,’ says Jacobs. Ferdinand would doubtless be delighted to know one of his ‘gimcracks’ had such lasting appeal. Q
ABOVE A marble bust of Queen Victoria by the sculptor Joseph Edgar Boehm was presented by the queen after her visit to Waddesdon in 1890 FACING PAGE The Portico Bedroom where Winston Churchill stayed. It was the only bedroom with a balcony, much favoured by male guests as they could slip outside to smoke, evading the ‘no smoking’ rule in the house. The bed dates from the late 19th century and the sumptuous drapes are thought to be French
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ELEPHANT AUTOMATON Mia Jackson, Waddesdon’s decorative arts curator, on 18thcentury automata W O R D S JA N E T G L E E S O N
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he extraordinary Elephant Automaton, a star of the Waddesdon Collection, was made in London in 1774 by Hubert Martinet. The elephant stands an imposing 1.3m high on a purpose-built carved oak base. When wound up with its two keys it plays four tunes, and the complex mechanisms make the trunk, tail and ears twitch, the eyes move, the circular jewelled motifs spin, turbaned figures on the top turn, figures appear in the howdah, the flower petals rotate, the musicians on each corner spin round and the low relief figures in the lower section move.
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Large 18th-century automata, often known as ‘sing-song clocks’ were chiefly made for the export trade to China and India, usually as diplomatic gifts for high-ranking officials, or as marriage gifts. Such was their popularity, there is a museum devoted to them in Beijing. In Europe, they were also regarded as highly prestigious objects, often displayed in travelling exhibitions, for the general public to enjoy the virtuoso mechanical marvels. Hubert Martinet is known to have exhibited an elephant automaton, possibly this one, in Paris in 1774.
Symbols of strrength and courage, elephants have featured in European painting and applied arts, includingg clocks, since Renaissance times. Other motifs suuch as mermaids, turbaned fi and lion masks add to the opulent orientaal theme. The scale of oversized flowers and sheells compared with the figures, and the use of both oriental and Western motifs are typical of automata a of this period and are probably a consequence of the numerous craftsmen invollved.
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Arguably the beest-known maker of 18th-century auutomata, and Hubert Martinet’s chief competitoor, James Cox was an entrepreneur gooldsmith. He was also proprietor of a private p museum in Spring Gardens,, a popular London attraction at which he exhibited his automata, includding elephants. Cox’s most famoous creations are the Silver Swan, which swims on a stream made oof twisted glass rods, turns its heead, and picks up and eats fish, on display at The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle; and the 10ft-tall Peacock Clock at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
Hubert Martinet (active c1768–1790) worked as a clockmaker and retailer in Paris and London, where he had a workshop in Clerkenwell. Details of his life are sketchy, but he is known to have supplied the Duc d’Orléans with two clocks for the Palais-Royal and to have made several other elephant automata: the inventory of his stock drawn after bankruptcy in 1777 lists three elephant clocks. There are examples of his work in the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul and in Basel at the Historisches Museum.
The National Trust, Waddesdon Manor
MANUFACTURE Patinated bronze, ormolu, mother of pearl and paste jewels all combine to give the elephant its sumptuous appearance. The complexity of the design and mechanics of automata such as this meant that they were extremely costly to make, and required the involvement of numerous specialist craftsmen outworkers, including bronze casters, jewellers, chasers and case makers. Martinet probably financed the production and the perils of the enterprise are underlined by the fact that his business went bankrupt in 1777.
Although fragile, this elaborate Elephant A m n is ill in working order today. It is on permanent display at Waddesdon Manor and set in motion once a month FACING PAGE The Baron’s Room, Ferdinand’s private sitting room
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WHERE TO O SEE Apart from the Eleephant and Silver Swan thhere are other interestiing examples of autom mata at York Castle Museuum and the British Museum m.
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lowers and foliage have influenced the design of carpets throughout its history, and sinuous trails, sprig motifs and stylised plant forms continue to feature in our most popular patterned carpets. William Morris is the best-known carpet designer and, although he lived over a century ago, his patterns continue to be revived and reinterpreted today. Modern artists make new demands on carpet makers to produce their ideas as closely as possible to the original and while over 30 colours can be included in carpets woven on Axminster looms, digital printing offers a limitless palette. Printing on carpet is a new technique and until recently only possible with synthetic carpets. Fi Douglas believes that her company, Bluebellgray, is the first to print designs on pure wool pile. ‘With digital printing you can make subtle marks,’ she says. ‘It lets you put a painting onto a rug.’ ABOVE LEFT ‘Noir Ruskin Butterfly’, 80 per cent wool, 20 per cent nylon, £89.99 per sq m, Timorous Beasties Collection, Brintons ABOVE RIGHT
‘Christine’ printed rug, 100 per cent wool rug, £990 for 230 x 170cm, Bluebellgray RIGHT ‘Strawberry Meadow Peacock’ carpet, 100 per cent wool, £149 per sq m,
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Expert tip ‘Pattern should be familiar but surprise with its freshness. When using a colourful small floral design keep walls plain or other furnishings simple to let the carpet stand out. If you want to combine prints, stay in the same colour family, choose one print to dominate or play with different scales.’ Lorna Haigh, head of creative, Alternative Flooring
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sing different textures to create or emphasise the design in rugs or carpets is not a new idea but introducing contrasting fibres takes the technique a step further. Wool has a softly lustrous surface and when it’s used together with a yarn that reflects the light, such as natural silk or bamboo silk, the shiny threads add highlights that give a luxurious look and feel. The opposite effect is achieved when matt plant fibres are mixed with wool, the more robust fibres contributing to weaves that have the richly textural look of tweed. ‘Maze II’ rug in ‘Teal’ in hand-tufted wool with bamboo silk, £405 per sq m, or in 100 per cent wool, £350 per sq m, Jennifer Manners BELOW ‘Bonita’ rug in ‘Jade’, hand-tufted wool with detailing in plaited plant fibre, £260 per sq m, Flock
Expert tip ‘Nothing wears as well as wool, but silk and bamboo silk are considered precious fibres and need special care. Applying a protective treatment such as MicroSeal to a rug made with a mix of materials provides an environmentally friendly, invisible barrier that seals the more delicate fibres and makes cleaning easier.’ Jennifer Manners, rug designer
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atterned carpets are a practical choice in areas of high footfall. They show marks and wear less readily and add interest in rooms where there’s a large expanse of floor. Traditional designs inspired by oriental carpet patterns are an all-time favourite, as are regular dot designs, checks and plaids, but the new generation of abstract and geometric carpets set out to appeal to those who prefer a more contemporary look. Repeating geometrics and interlocking patterns make a bold style statement, while new designs based on classic motifs such as scroll, Greek key and herringbone patterns are distressed for a softer effect and drawn in colours that reflect current trends for refreshing cool neutrals and pastel tones.
‘Oyster Atholl Gardens’ carpet, 80 per cent wool, 20 per cent nylon, £89.99 per sq m, Timorous Beasties Collection, Brintons LEFT Handmade traditional shyrdak felted wool rug, 1.5 x 2.6m, £2,200, Felt
‘Eriskay’ 100 per cent undyed wool carpet, £40 per sq m, Natural Tweed collection, Brockway RIGHT ‘Wilton Svelte’ in ‘Stone’, 100 per cent wool carpet, £143 per sq m, Crucial Trading
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f you want flooring that feels warm and soft to the touch, is springy underfoot yet hard-wearing and is produced with low impact on the environment, wool is the natural choice. Arguably, most natural of all is carpet made from undyed wool. ‘The wool for these carpets is prepared by washing in pure Yorkshire water,’ says Shaun Lewis of Brockway, a carpet maker that uses wool from a variety of sources including British rare breed sheep. ‘No dyes are used and all the colour comes from the natural tones of the fleece.’ Carpets dyed in neutral hues often include shades that wouldn’t appear naturally. Neutral shades and textured weaves are a winning combination and carpets with a loop pile, regular motif or overall random texture exude luxury. H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 107
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Westex ‘Westend’ carpet in ‘Pine’, 80 per cent wool, 20 per cent nylon, £45.99 per sq m, Carpetright LEFT ‘Castlemead Twist’ in ‘Cool Grey’, 80 per cent wool, 10 per cent nylon, 10 per cent polyester, from £42 per sq m, Adam Carpets
Antique handmade Persian ‘Tabriz’ part-silk wool rug, 2 x 3m, £8,800, The London Persian Rug Company
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nlike most patterned floorcoverings, oriental rugs introduce colour and design without limiting your room’s style. Equally suited to traditional and contemporary settings, they bring a sense of warmth and easy living. Rugs come in a range of styles from flatweave kilims to thick-piled carpets made from luxurious fibres in intricate designs. Deciding on size, palette, texture and budget will narrow your focus. If you’re buying an expensive rug, some suppliers allow you to try a selection at home. H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 10 9
FINE LINES ‘Camden Wool’ carpet in ‘Sienna Stripe’, £34.99 per sq m, Carpetright BELOW ‘Bouclé Neutrals’ carpet in ‘Sloane Steel’, 50 per cent wool, 50 per cent polyester, £25 per sq m, Cormar Carpets RIGHT ‘Westport’ flatweave rug in ‘Lichen’, 100 per cent wool, 310 x 225cm, £2,065, Roger Oates
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£400–£600 Yemeni-born Abdo Nagi created this large, 45cm diameter charger in 2000, just before his untimely death
£2,000–£3,000 Leading potter John Ward’s hand-built pieces are highly sought after and this black-andwhite bowl, 30.5cm in diameter, was made in the 1990s
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£1,200–£1,600 Leading potter John Ward’s prices are going up and up: watch this rust-and-blue vase dating from the 1990s fly ESTIMATE
£300–£500 David Leach, son of Bernard, created this globular vase in the 1980s
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£300–£400 Ewen Henderson, a pupil of Lucie Rie, created this 31cmhigh bottle form in the 1980s
A sale at Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers proves pottery is on the rise
OUR EXPERTS Philip Smith Head of design at Mallams auction house based in Oxford Marijke Varrall-Jones Director of UK-based ceramic auction specialist Maak Contemporary Ceramics Jason Wood Specialist consultant in studio ceramics for Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers
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ver the last few years, keen auction watchers will have noted with interest the growing popularity of 20th-century photography and furniture design. But there’s a new kid on the block, British studio ceramics dating from the 1920s to the present day – an emerging sale category where prices are largely affordable, though on the up. Since 2014, Adam Partridge Auctioneers in Cheshire has been gently carving out a niche in this budding market, holding two studio ceramics sales every year, curated by specialist consultant Jason Wood. A lifelong pottery collector himself, Wood considers it an honour to bring to our attention the beautiful, challenging and arresting work of hundreds of independent studio potters, past and present. And to this end, he hunts down
around 350 lots per sale, with estimates ranging from a humble £50 to over £5,000 and potentially much more for special pieces by leading makers. ‘At our sales, I always try to get representation of pieces across the full spectrum,’ says Wood, a former archaeologist, who inherited his first pieces of handmade pottery from his artist parents. ‘From the pioneer potters of the 1920s and 1930s such as Bernard Leach and Michael Cardew, to leading post-war potters Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, to talented young ceramicists working today such as Lanty Ball, James Hake and Rebecca Appleby.’ In the upcoming sale this October, auction-goers will find everything from an early Bernard Leach pot made in the 1940s, to scintillating ceramics by Yemeni potter Abdo Nagi, who lived and worked in
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This large vase by Lisa Hammond, made in the 2010s, has been donated by the potter to help raise funds for the new Clay College at Middleport Pottery in Stoke-onTrent. Other leading ceramicists will also be donating their work, along with potters featured on the BBC’s The Great Pottery Throw Down
William Marshall worked in the Leach Pottery as foreman for many years, and made this large charger, 43cm in diameter, in the 1980s after setting up his own pottery in Lelant, Cornwall
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£400–£600 Collectable potter Emmanuel Cooper made this colourful bowl around 1995
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£300–£400 A lustre bowl made in the 2000s by potter Sutton Taylor
Letchworth Garden City in the 1980s and 1990s, to sculptural pots by leading modern potters John Ward, Jennifer Lee and Emmanuel Cooper, all of whose prices are in the ascendant, yet affordable when compared to the art market. In 2015, Adam Partridge Auctioneers’ ceramics sales were put on the map when Wood uncovered the astounding Firth Collection of studio pottery – a now famous cache built up over 40 years by the late Alan and Pat Firth in their modest 1930s bungalow near Leeds. Their 300-piece strong collection, which included pottery by Ewen Henderson, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, made an extraordinary £990,679. Since handling such a major collection, the reputation of Adam Partridge studio ceramics sales soared, and the auction house now attracts a wide selection of 20th-century
£300–£400 A large bowl, diameter 35.5cm, by Yemeni-born potter Abdo Nagi, made in the 1990s
pieces, putting its sales firmly on the collector’s calendar. Over in Oxford, Philip Smith of Mallams has been plugging away at the same fledgling market since 2010, holding two dedicated sales annually, and is equally enthusiastic about the variety of pottery available to bidders, from £100 upwards. ‘With the rise of interior design, we find that buyers are looking for one or two objects for appreciation within a scheme, and they are looking at studio potters afresh because of the individual craftsmanship of each piece. Historically, we have the strongest tradition of studio pottery in this country, and have been at the forefront of the movement, so ceramics is a field rich in possibilities.’ At auction, it’s the legendary likes of 20th-century master makers, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, both emigrés from
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£1,200–£1,600 A small vessel, made pre-1988, by sought-after Scottish-born potter Jennifer Lee
Europe, whose pieces achieve five- and sometimes six-figure prices as demand continues to soar among wealthy collectors and institutions. ‘Where these ceramics are concerned, ordinary people have been almost priced out of the market, and there’s no sign of it going down,’ says Wood. ‘With Rie’s work there’s something quite beautiful, modern and clean that fits in with today’s interiors and keeps prices high. While with Hans Coper, any serious collector of studio ceramics will want to own a piece of his.’ Bonhams’ former head of contemporary ceramics, Marijke VarrallJones, established Maak Contemporary Ceramics in 2008 as an online auction house specialising in studio ceramics and has seen how the fervour for Rie and Coper has had an upside too. ‘The phenomenal growth in prices for these H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 113
PREVIOUS SALES NEW GENERATION Celadon jug by Edmund de Waal, 1998
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he multi-talented ceramicist and writer Edmund de Waal is a breaker of barriers and his latest project is to create designs for the Royal Ballet’s 2018 season at the Royal Opera House in London. A lover of white pottery and Japanese aesthetics who has recently experimented with black glazes, De Waal works from his south London studio, a former munitions factory, to create his beautifully proportioned porcelain pieces. Like De Waal’s other work, this unusual pale blue celadon jug with crackle glaze draws on the pottery traditions of the Far East in shape and feel, and is indented with his potter’s mark just next to the handle. The estimate of £800–£1,200 rose to a hammer price of £1,500 at Maak online auction house in May this year. De Waal is already so well rated that his currency can only go up at auction, so buy now before it’s all out of reach.
£200–£250 A rectangular vase form by former Leach Pottery employee, Robin Welch, made in the 2000s
two potters in the last five years has in part drawn new collectors into the broader field of studio ceramics, while also forcing people no longer able to engage at this top level to look at the next generation of potters who were emerging from the late 1970s onwards. We’re seeing a significant rise in interest in the established contemporary makers, such as Gordon Baldwin, Ewen Henderson, Elizabeth Fritsch, Emmanuel Cooper, Colin Pearson and John Ward, with a spectacular hammer price of £18,000 achieved for a John Ward piece in May 2016.’ The advice is simple. If you already own a piece by one of the more soughtafter makers, keep it as a nest egg, and if you want to start a collection, dive in. There are some fabulous bargains to be had. Q * All lots shown here will be in the Studio Ceramics and Modern Design sale that is taking place on 13th October at Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers, Withyfold Drive, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 2BD. 01625 431788; adampartridge.co.uk (A section of lots will help to raise funds for the new Clay College at Middleport Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, including ceramics by judges and potters from the BBC’s The Great Pottery Throw Down.) * Contemporary Ceramics online sale takes place on 13th–16th November at Maak online auctions. 07903 049444; maaklondon.irostrum.com * Design sale on 7th December at Mallams Oxford, Bocardo House, St Michael’s Street, Oxford, OX1 2EB. 01865 241358; mallams.co.uk
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The doyenne’s work Flaring footed bowl by Lucie Rie, 1978
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he prices for Lucie Rie ceramics are sky high and going up, with her unique porcelain footed bowls especially valuable. This little beauty, Scandi-looking with its plain white glaze ground and concentric, denim blue stripes, last came up for sale at Christie’s in 1985 when it was purchased by an American collector. It was then consigned to Phillips, New York, in late 2016 where it fetched a new world record for the potter of $212,500 (£163,625). Another Rie bowl in the same sale, in a golden manganese glaze with sgraffito decoration, sold for a little less. Rie’s pottery has been highly collectable for many years, since she built a name for herself in the swinging Sixties, and now even her standard crockery sets made for shops such as Heal’s and Liberty in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s are sought after. Utilitarian Rie stoneware – plates, cereal bowls, cups and saucers and coffee pots in a signature conkerbrown glaze, sometimes decorated with incised lines or sgraffito, can be bought in the low thousands of pounds at auction.
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In the Leach tradition
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Monumental teapot by Michael Cardew, 1965
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orn in 1901, Michael Cardew was at the vanguard of the studio pottery movement in Britain. His journey in the craft began when he started helping out at the Braunton Pottery in Devon during holidays while he studied at Oxford University. After Oxford, inspired by his passion for ceramics, he joined Bernard Leach’s St Ives pottery as the master potter’s first apprentice and stayed until 1926, when he set up his own pottery in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He moved to Wenford Bridge in Cornwall in 1939, and in 1950 also set up and ran the Abuja Pottery in Nigeria. Cardew specialised in the most beautiful, tactile, earthy-coloured domestic wares – jugs, jars, tea and coffee pots, plates, bowls and lidded pots. This large stoneware teapot is a fine example, decorated in mottled brown glazes with green flashes, and sporting a pie crust rim around its belly. It sold for £900 at Maak online auction house.
ELEGANCE ENCAPSULATED Asymmetric speckled pot by Jennifer Lee, 1990
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ailing from Aberdeenshire in Scotland, but now based in London, Jennifer Lee is fast becoming a name to watch in the studio pottery world, with her works rapidly gaining currency at auction. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art and subsequent travels to the USA, Egypt, India and most recently, Japan, have fed into the look and style of her practice. Her tactile pots are meticulously hand built and are coloured by mixing metallic oxides into the clay before making. Her pieces have been bought by many public collections, including the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and the V&A, which holds three of her pots. At a recent Mallams sale, two Lee pots did exceptionally well, with her 1990 ‘Asymmetric Speckled Pot’ (pictured right), making £4,200 against an estimate of £1,000–£2,000, and ‘Pale Pot, Speckled Emerging Rim’, made in 1997, fetching £13,000 against an estimate of £3,000–£5,000. If you are lucky enough to own a Jennifer Lee pot, look after it.
ONE THAT GOT AWAY
SMOKY SURFACE Humbug form pot by Tim Andrews, early 2000s
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oney no object, Jason Wood, studio ceramics consultant at Adam Partridge, would choose this humbug form pot by contemporary ceramicist Tim Andrews. It sold at Adam Partridge in March this year, for £580 (estimate £300–£500). Based in east Devon, Andrews trained in the late 1970s with David Leach, son of Bernard Leach, and now specialises in smoke-fired raku work in black and
white. His pieces are in many public collections including the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Says Wood: ‘The 36cm-diameter pot was a stunner made from rakufired porcelain and T-material. The contrast between the roundness of form and the linear decoration appeals to me, as does the delicacy of the inverted rim. It’s also extremely tactile.’
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How to collect studio pottery With the topic of pottery riding high after the BBC’s The Great Pottery Throw Down, now’s the time to look again at the rich seam of British studio ceramics
the decoration. You will start Jason Wood, consultant to notice subtle details such as specialist for Adam Partridge weight and finish – how does it Auctioneers & Valuers, spends feel to hold? With pottery that’s a lot of time visiting ceramics not top quality you might find shows and open studios to that there’s too much clay on the stay up to date with what’s base, or the walls are too thin, or happening in the field and to keep that the glaze has spalled because his eye in. For those starting out the clay was not dry enough on the studio ceramics trail he before firing. It takes an awful lot advocates visiting shows such as of skill to create good pieces of Potfest (potfest.co.uk), mounted studio pottery.’ in Cumbria and Perth, Scotland If you want to enter the every year. There’s also Art in Clay market at a higher level, in the low (artinclay.co.uk), held annually at thousands of pounds, look at the Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, prices achieved by a variety of and the prestigious Ceramic Art Ewen Henderson’s ‘Large top potters, past and present, at London (ceramics.org.uk) and Vessel’ with volcanic surface auction. Marijke Varrall-Jones York (ceramicartyork.org) shows, was made in 1986 and sold at of Maak suggests: ‘Jennifer Lee, organised by the Craft Potters Maak for £2,400 Alison Britton, Gordon Baldwin, Association. Colin Pearson, Ewen Henderson Says Wood: ‘The best way to and Edmund de Waal are seeing form a deeper understanding and a surge in interest with strong prices achieved appreciation of studio pottery from all eras, at auction, often due to prominent exhibitions and to decide what you like, is to handle the pieces and see in detail the form, the glazes and promoting the artist to new global audiences.’
POTTERY LEGENDS: RIE & COPER Where studio potter Bernard Leach led in the first half of the 20th century, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper followed in the second half, creating pieces with iconic appeal for today’s collectors. They initially worked together in Rie’s London studio from 1946, after Rie, already established, had taken Coper under her wing. Rie’s bowls and trumpet vases were cutting-edge urban –
with Modernist shapes and glazed in scintillating colours such as uranium yellow and peacock blue, decorated with manganese and copper glazes to give a volcanic finish. Hans Coper’s forms were in total contrast – chunky, sculptural pieces inspired by Cycladic art. Coper was notoriously picky about his work and put a hammer through much of it. This October’s Adam Partridge Auctioneers’ Studio Ceramics sale features two Coper pieces, part of an unusual consignment from a sculptor who shared a studio with the potter. They are two small pots Coper used for his glazes with the ‘come-and-get-me’ estimate of £100–£150, but expect them to go for considerably more. The extraordinary collection of 21 Hans Coper pots from the Firth Collection, which sold at Adam Partridge in 2015 for £426,000
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WHERE TO BUY AUCTION HOUSES K Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers, Cheshire. 01625 431788; adampartridge.co.uk K Bonhams, London. 020 7447 7447; bonhams.com K Christie’s, London. 020 7839 9060; christies.com K Maak Contemporary Ceramics. 07903 049444; maaklondon.irostrum.com K Mallams, Oxford. 01865 241358; mallams.co.uk K Phillips, London. 020 7318 4010; phillips.com K Sotheby’s, London. 020 7293 5000; sothebys.com K Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury. 01722 424500; woolleyandwallis.co.uk
WHERE TO SEE K Ceramic Gallery, Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 01970 622882; aberystwythartscentre.co.uk K Centre of Ceramic Art, York Art Gallery, York. 01904 687687; centreofceramicart.org.uk K Crafts Study Centre, UCA, Surrey. 01252 891450; csc.uca.ac.uk K Leach Pottery Studio & Museum, St Ives. 01736 799703; leachpottery.com K Lisa Sainsbury Ceramics Collection, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich. 01603 593199; scva.ac.uk K V&A Ceramics Gallery, London. 020 7942 2000; vam.ac.uk
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THE EMERALD MAN
Around 1200BC, in the tropical climes of the Mexican lowlands that slope gently down to the Pacific, an elaborate civilisation was forming. Using ancient hand tools, the Olmecs carved colossal statues from rock, often in honour of their eight gods. But they also created miniscule marvels, including the world’s oldest carved emerald – shown here. The Olmecs considered emeralds and jades to be sacred stones and this tiny figure, at just 5.6cm tall, is cut from a single piece of emerald. It is the only carved emerald from Pre-Colombia known to exist.
2CLEOPATRA’S MINES
First discovered around 500–300BC, the complex of emerald mines at Wâdi Sikait in Egypt were an exciting prospect for jewel-obsessed Cleopatra. Lured by their beauty and supposed healing powers, she claimed the mines as her own, and used their treasures to decorate her palace walls and as gifts for visiting dignitaries. The Romans later pillaged the same mines, using the gemstones to make intricate jewellery, like the 2nd–3rd-century earrings pictured (right). Eventually abandoned when finds depleted, the mines were lost for a millennium, and only rediscovered c1817.
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With the colour green being very much ‘of the moment’ and emeralds more sought after than ever, HOLLY JOHNSON journeys from Ancient Egypt to Colombia, via the Bastille, to trace the history of this gem-inspired hue
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THE EMERALD CITY
The magnificent capital in L Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was built from green glass, green marble and, of course, emeralds. The original illustrations by cartoonist WW Denslow show the city as a futuristic idyll, not dissimilar from the works of Antoni Gaudí. While, in the 1939 film, test tube-like skyscrapers rise, glistening, from the landscape – a look more in keeping with the urban architecture of today.
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THE CURSED STONE
In 2001, miners in Bahia, north Brazil, unearthed an immense lump of green gemstone. It turned out to be the world’s largest emerald discovery: 180,000 carats, valued at more than $350m. Since then, a series of unfortunate events have unfolded. After miners were attacked by panthers, the stone was almost lost to flooding during Hurricane Katrina, and now a lengthy court battle is underway to establish ownership.
VISION OF ROME
In AD54, a new ruler took to the throne in Rome – the empire’s fifth emperor, Nero Claudius Caesar. He was a notoriously brutal and murderous leader, so it’s no surprise that he enjoyed the drama and violence of a gladiatorial fight. If legend is to be believed, Nero watched the games through a polished emerald, either to shield his eyes from the glare of the Roman sun, or as a monocle as he was reportedly shortsighted. H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 119
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A TOXIC HUE
In 1775, Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele invented a brilliant green pigment that contained arsenic compounds. Cheap to produce and not then known to be toxic, ‘Scheele’s Green’ became very popular; in the Victorian era it was used in wallpaper, paint, candles and even children’s toys. ‘Paris Green’ – a similar mixture of copper and arsenic – superseded Scheele’s hue as a more durable alternative, which enabled the Impressionists to create their vivid, emerald landscapes such as Monet’s The Water-Lily Pond. This very paint is one of the factors said to have contributed to Monet’s blindness. It was only banned in the 1960s.
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INDIAN TREASURES
The world’s largest engraved emerald is known as The Mogul Mughal, and it dates from 1695, when the last of the great Mughal Emperors, Aurangzeb, ruled in India. Engraved with poppy flowers, herringbone edging and Arabic calligraphy, its style is typical of this dynastic era in India, during which the Taj Mahal and Great Mosque of Delhi were built. Weighing 217.80 carats, it was mined in Colombia before being sold in India, where emeralds were highly desirable. After selling for £1.5m at Christie’s in its Arts of India sale in 2001, it can now be viewed at the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.
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A THING OF BEAUTY
As well as adorning herself in emeralds to play the title role in Cleopatra (see page 118), Elizabeth Taylor also loved to decorate herself in the gems when off set. The screen icon’s Bvlgari emerald and diamond pendant brooch (pictured), which had been an engagement gift from Richard Burton, sent the salesroom into a frenzy when it sold for over $6.5m at Christie’s in its 2011 sale of Taylor’s ‘Legendary Jewels’. The estimate was $500,000–$700,000.
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THE LAST CROWN JEWEL
After revolutionaries stormed the Bastille in 1789 and later drove out the French monarchy, the crown jewels were seized. There is one single piece that is technically a French crown jewel however: an emerald tiara made in 1819–20 for the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the Duchess of Angoulême. Using unmounted stones from the crown jewels, this diamondand-emerald tiara included 40 emeralds (about 77 carats), to fashion the royal diadem which is now on display in the Louvre.
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THE FUTURE’S GREEN
As a symbol of hope and renewal, it seems fitting that in turbulent times ‘Greenery’ should be the Pantone Colour of the Year for 2017. From wallcoverings to Chesterfields, rich fern greens and jewelled emerald tones are a trend that transcends the seasons. ‘Emerald (92)’, shown here, is a luxurious and undeniably dramatic paint shade from Designers Guild (from £23 for one litre of Perfect Matt Emulsion), which promises to add decadence to any room. H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 121
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Candia Lutyens’ collection of furniture and lighting takes the designs of her grandfather, Sir Edwin Lutyens, and reworks them for the 21st century. CHARLOTTE ABRAHAMS looks at the life and works of this design family
here is a new design label on the virtual high street. It specialises in furniture and lighting with a distinctive, geometric edge. Anyone familiar with the work of the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens will notice a resemblance as they scroll through the array of sharply angled acrylic tables, multi-armed pendant lights and wooden chairs with their mathematically precise, carved-out backs. The aesthetic echoes are no coincidence of course. This is Lutyens Contemporary – a brand launched last year by the architect’s granddaughter Candia Lutyens in order, she explains, ‘to bring the Lutyens design idiom into the 21st century.’ This may be a recent project, but Candia has been recreating her grandfather’s furniture and lighting designs through her bespoke brand, Lutyens Furniture and Lighting, for the last 30 years. The initial idea to relaunch his work came about after she and her husband commissioned a pair of reproduction ‘Napoleon’ armchairs for their own home.
ABOVE The ‘Hexagonal’ small lantern, £1,256, from Candia Lutyens, who draws on Edwin Lutyens’ design ethos LEFT Candia’s grandfather, the noted architect and designer Sir Edwin Lutyens, famous for his innovative yet traditional style
Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy. Because I was not allowed to play games, I had to teach myself, for my enjoyment, to use my eyes instead of my feet Edwin originally designed this asymmetric chair in 1913 for his own use, and then went on to make one for each of his five children. Having grown up with her father’s, Candia couldn’t imagine living in a house without one. ‘Having these chairs produced made us realise that Lutyens’ design work deserved to be better known,’ she explains. ‘He is probably still the most important British architect of the 20th century, but he was also a hugely creative and productive designer of furniture and lighting.’
Strength from weakness
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One of Edwin Lutyens’ most famous works, the Cenotaph on Whitehall, London; Edwin’s small ‘Tripod’ (£1,229) and ‘Triangular’ (£1,673) tables in acrylic for the 21st century; designed by Lutyens c1912, the Viceroy’s House in New Delhi is today the official residence of India’s president
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Born the 10th of 13 children in 1869 and raised in Surrey, Edwin Landseer Lutyens contracted rheumatic fever as a young child, an experience that had a profound effect on his future career. ‘Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy,’ he is reputed to have told the writer, Sir Osbert Sitwell. ‘Because I was not allowed to play games, [I] had to teach myself, for my enjoyment, to use my eyes instead of my feet’. ‘He was drawing buildings from an early age,’ says Paul Atterbury, design historian and Lutyens enthusiast. ‘In those days, people learned architecture by looking at buildings, and he spent a large part of his childhood looking at vernacular architecture before serving as an apprentice in an architect’s practice.’ Lutyens spent his early career designing relatively small Arts and Crafts-style country
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Candia’s ‘Lozenge’
lantern uses her grandfather’s shapes, £1,256; Edwin’s ‘Halo’ pendant light, updated for 2017 by his granddaughter, £487 for a 250mm disc or £502 for 450mm; clock and barometer designed by Candia, £776 for the pair; a table lamp from Candia’s latest range, £734; a small pot with lid, £64, and a pen pot, £71, both new pieces from Candia BELOW LEFT Candia’s updated version of her grandfather’s ‘Eye’ chair, £2,527 BELOW The former headquarters of Midland Bank, the newly refurbished ‘The Ned’ hotel in London was named after its architect, Edwin Lutyens, who was known as ‘Ned’ to his friends
houses such as Tigbourne Court in Surrey and, Candia’s personal favourite, Bois des Moutiers near Dieppe. ‘I love it because it’s an almost transitional building between his early Arts and Crafts and later classical work,’ she explains. That classicism is best captured in the designs he produced in the early 1920s when he was lead architect for India’s imperial capital, New Delhi, and in the many war graves and memorials he designed, including the Cenotaph in London. Much admired at the time, these buildings still look relevant today. ‘Lutyens’ buildings are really well thought through,’ says Atterbury. ‘He was fanatical about detail, craftsmanship and, while he was very adventurous in his use of structure, all of his designs are about mathematics and go back to Greek ideas of harmony and balance.’
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LUTYENS AT AUCTION A round-up of the high prices Lutyens’ pieces have reached in the salesroom
ABOVE Candia Lutyens has designed these mirrors using shapes that her grandfather favoured, updating Edwin’s classic style for the contemporary home. Mirror available in two sizes – small, £127, and large, £198, as well as with red or black frames
The same is true of his furniture and lighting which, like many architects, he designed for specific buildings, including the Viceroy’s House in New Delhi and the neoclassical manor house Gledstone Hall in Yorkshire. ‘His aesthetic was quite sparse – he absolutely loathed chintz,’ Candia says. ‘For him, decoration was more in the form than the colour or fabric, and what mattered above all was the geometric precision of each piece.’ It is this aesthetic that Candia has brought to her new line. Some of the pieces here, such as the ‘Napoleon’ chair and ‘Cardinal Hat’ pendant light are original Lutyens designs. Candia has reinterpreted them with contemporary materials (the ‘Cardinal Hat’, originally made for Oxford’s Campion Hall Chapel, now boasts an acrylic shade), but many are completely unique. ‘My favourite piece in the new collection is the ‘Armed’ pendant,’ says Candia. ‘It’s not faithful to Lutyens, but I think he would see a continuation. It has the same fluidity, movement and geometric shapes.’ And that is the point. The bespoke line was launched to preserve his legacy; with Lutyens Contemporary, Candia aims to broaden his appeal and bring his aesthetic to a new, younger audience. And would the architect, who died on New Year’s Day in 1944, approve of his granddaughter’s fondness for acrylic? Paul Atterbury thinks so. ‘He was a man who loved materials,’ he says. ‘So I think he would really enjoy the challenge of acrylic.’ Q * 0845 838 6374; lutyens-contemporary.com
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The highest price paid for a Lutyens piece was on 9th November 2000 at Christie’s King Street. A pair of opalescent glass hanging shades that he designed around 1925 for Gledstone Hall went under the hammer for £44,650. Prices have remained consistent in the years since. On 3rd November 2015, Christie’s sold a pair of upholstered mahogany ‘Napoleon’ chairs, designed in 1919, for £11,250, a figure that was almost twice the lower estimate. While on 27th April 2017, another Gledstone Hall ceiling light, the six-beaded, coloured-glass and silver-plated brass ‘Halo’, fetched £28,750 at an auction at Phillips London. ‘Original Lutyens pieces are a good investment,’ says Marcus McDonald, international specialist at Phillips London, Hong Kong and New York. ‘He didn’t sign his pieces so it’s rare to have firm attribution, but if you do find an example with good provenance that can be traced back to an original interior, it is likely to hold – or even increase – its value. The high price the ‘Halo’ achieved at our recent sale will certainly be good for the market.’
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This pair of opalescent glass hanging shades that sold at Christie’s in 2000 for £44,650, still holds the auction record for an Edwin Lutyens product; a ‘Halo’ light that Lutyens designed specifically for Gledstone Hall went for £28,750 at Phillips London earlier this year BELOW A pair of Lutyens’ distinctive asymmetric ‘Napoleon’ chairs fetched £11,250 at Christie’s in 2015
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BY APPOINTMENT ONLY When you see the words ‘By appointment only’ in a shop window or on a website contact page, are you apprehensive about shopping for antiques at an appointed time and place? You’re not alone. As more dealers choose to trade this way, ROSANNA MORRIS says don’t be daunted H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 12 9
e’ve all been there. We like the look of an antiques shop or an antique for sale, but on further investigation find that the dealer operates ‘By appointment only’. What do you do? Phone the number and book a slot to view? Or decide you weren’t that keen on it anyway? Many of us may veer towards the latter, a little too daunted to pick up the phone and book an appointment to visit a showroom or view an object. We decide it’s only for the super-rich or serious collectors. But as more antiques dealers choose to trade this way, running their businesses from their homes, industrial units, barns, antiques centres and offices around the country, perhaps it’s time to embrace this method of shopping. There are many different reasons why an antiques dealer might not have a traditional shopfront and conventional opening hours. Some have traded this way for decades, but the industry is seeing more shop owners closing their premises and joining them. A fifth of LAPADA (The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers) members are now appointment only. Why? ‘The internet has made this method of trading more appealing to dealers, who can now promote themselves internationally,’ says Rebecca Davies, chief executive of LAPADA. ‘They find
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it more convenient to operate this way. Many of our members, who became dealers through passion for their subject, have limited staff and need to travel to source antiques, as well as concern themselves with selling them. Others regularly attend fairs around the country and abroad, and so a gallery or shop would often be left unattended.’ It’s an interesting way for an antiques lover to shop, too, says Davies: ‘I always find LAPADA dealers are happy to share their knowledge – and perhaps anecdotes – as you browse their finds. Viewing by appointment is both a novelty and a personal experience. You will have the dealer’s full attention, should you wish.’ For Holly Johnson, who runs her eponymous antiques business on the edge of Macclesfield in Cheshire, operating by appointment only gives her greater flexibility. ‘It allows me to visit clients and restorers, and I have more time to travel to find better pieces,’ she says. ‘I also have three children, so this means I can balance family and work, and undertake other projects such as property development and interior design.’ It’s a win-win situation for both Johnson and her clients, as she says she can fit in with buyers’ schedules and devote her full attention to a client, most of whom are enquiring about a piece they’ve seen on her website.
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Brighton for six years, Alex MacArthur moved into a 14th-century monastery in nearby Rye. Here, customers can see how a piece works within a room, and buy something Alex loves enough to live with herself FACING PAGE CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT Early 19th-century comb-back Windsor chair, £4,800; mid 18thcentury Delft charger plate, £650, both Robert Hirschhorn; large 19th-century Italian giltwood cushion mirror, £3,200, LVS Decorative Arts
OUR EXPERTS Holly Johnson Holly’s LAPADA-accredited business in Cheshire serves up furniture and fine art Alex MacArthur Alex deals in antiques and curios from a 14th-century monastery in Rye, Sussex Drew Pritchard The presenter of TV show Salvage Hunters, Drew has a showroom in north Wales
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H&A’s PICK OF SHOPS BY APPOINTMENT K ALEX MACARTHUR High-calibre dealer Alex sells a treasure trove of curiosities and decorative antiques in an enormous 14th-century monastery. Conduit Hill, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 7LE. 01273 681773; alexmacarthur.co.uk K ANGLO-ORIENTAL ANTIQUES Miranda Brankin-Frisby specialises in antiques from the East as well as British pieces, including furniture, decoration and works of art. Ladbarrow Farm, Aldsworth, Nr Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL54 3PS. 01451 844310; anglo-orientalantiques.com K BRANCHING OUT Judith and Sophie specialise in French decorative antiques and unusual vintage objects, selling their wares from a lovely old barn on an old seed merchant’s premises. Waterlock House, Wingham, Kent, CT3 1BH. 01227 721792; branchingoutwingham.co.uk K DOE & HOPE James Gooch and his team sell decorative, rare and unusual antiques and fine art from all corners of the globe. The pieces are displayed in a beautiful, atmospheric setting at The Onion Barn, where visitors can expect good coffee and candlelight. James also has a gallery at Lorfords Antiques in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. 15 High Street, Blunham, Bedfordshire, MK44 3NL. 01767 640995; doeandhope.com K DREW PRITCHARD Drew is a television presenter and dealer who sells architectural salvage and decorative antiques, by appointment only, from his warehouse in the Welsh town of Llandudno. Llandudno, North Wales (Drew is also due to open a shop in Conwy this autumn). 01492 580890; drewpritchard.co.uk K FONTAINE Stuart Atkinson and Kiel Shaw deal in French decorative antiques, and strongly encourage buyers to visit their warehouse showroom, which is full of intriguing finds. Unit 26 Blenheim Close, Pysons Road Industrial Estate, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 2YF. 01843 869380; fontainedecorative.com K HARRIS LINDSAY Bruce Lindsay and his team specialise in a wide range of English, continental and oriental works, from various different time periods. Bruce has recently given up his long-time premises in St James’s to operate from home, freeing up more time to research and travel. PO Box 74155, London, SE5 5JS. 07545 555024; harrislindsay.com
K HOLLY JOHNSON ANTIQUES This business specialises in works of art and 19th and 20th-century furniture by such names as Gio Ponti, Piero Fornasetti, Gordon Russell and Robert Thompson (Mouseman). The Woodwork Shop, Lyme Green Settlement, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 0LD. 01260 253110; hollyjohnsonantiques.com K
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Robert Hirschhorn and John Hall sell unusual oak and country furniture, plus folk art, from their home in central London – an 18th-century townhouse with a modern garden room. London. 020 7703 7443; hirschhornantiques.com K
MAX ROLLITT Max sells beautiful finds, including textiles, unusual ceramics, pictures and lighting from a barn in the Hampshire countryside. Yavington Barn, Lovington Lane, Avington, Hampshire, SO21 1DA. 01962 791124; maxrollitt.com
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NICHOLAS GIFFORD-MEAD Specialising in antique chimney pieces, fire furniture, garden ornaments and sculpture, Nicholas has relocated to a trade space in Chelsea and an office at home in Fulham after spending 20 years on Pimlico Road. PO Box 71421, London, SW6 9GW. 020 7736 0808; nicholasgiffordmead.co.uk
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PA OXLEY Situated in a converted 19thcentury coach house, this clock specialist offers a wide range of classic antique timepieces. The Old Rectory, Cherhill Calne, Wiltshire, SN11 8UX. 01249 816227; british-antiqueclocks.com
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PERIOD OAK ANTIQUES Husband-and-wife team Jack and Jackie Simonini sell English country furniture dating from the medieval period to the 17th century from their showrooms in the Lake District. Nr Askham, Cumbria, CA10. 01931 713506; periodoakantiques.co.uk
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PETER BUNTING ANTIQUES Peter sells antique oak furniture, portraits and tapestries in restored barns at his home, 13th-century Harthill Hall. Alport, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1LH. 01629 580772; countryoak.co.uk
TIM BOWEN ANTIQUES Tim and Betsan Bowen open their gallery selling country furniture and folk art in west Wales on Fridays and Saturdays, but other times are by appointment only. Gallery, Ivy House, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, SA17 5SS. 01267 267122; timbowenantiques.co.uk
A family business with pieces ranging from 17th to 20th-century furniture and bronzes, as well as sculpture and decorative items. Suffolk. 07703 306451; lvsdecorativearts.co.uk K
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WAKELIN & LINFIELD Specialising in ‘fine antique furniture and effects for town and country’. PO Box 48, Billingshurst, West Sussex, RH14 0YZ. 01403 700004; wakelin-linfield.com
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WINDSOR HOUSE ANTIQUES Kevin Smith runs his business from his home, the magnificent Barnwell Manor, where stock is arranged in room sets. He has operated by appointment only for nearly 20 years. Barnwell, Nr Oundle, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, PE8 5PJ. 01832 274595; windsorhouseantiques.co.uk
19th-century, Louis XIVstyle gilt-metal chandelier, £4,800, LVS Decorative Arts
‘Today, websites and social media act as our shop windows,’ says Alex MacArthur, whose former home in Brighton doubled as a showroom for several years before she moved down the road to Rye to run a similar enterprise in a Grade I-listed, 14thcentury monastery. ‘The internet gives us a presence, so we no longer need shops. I’ve met people from Japan who saw me on Instagram.’ With its series of beautifully curated showrooms, MacArthur’s capacious monastery is very much a destination store and perfectly suited to private appointments where one can pore over her intriguing finds alone. ‘I give clients a coffee or, if it’s later in the day, a glass of bubbly,’ she says. ‘There’s something quite nice about not being too convenient. People almost see you as a private club.’ You might think that people who make a business from the past will be less keen to embrace modern technology, but antiques dealers are savvy when it comes to marketing their stock online and adapting to the way people shop. Some virtual boutiques are so well designed that they are almost as enjoyable to browse as their real-life counterparts. Good photography (and favourable returns policies) means buyers part with their cash without seeing the piece in
Browse globally sourced curios by candlelight at Doe & Hope in Bedfordshire
person. But if you do want to view an item, it helps that most prices are listed online, so you don’t have to endure the awkwardness of asking how much. Antiques dealer and television presenter Drew Pritchard has recently moved to a new warehouse in Llandudno, north Wales, and operates by appointment only because he finds that most of his sales are online. ‘It benefits the client, as I can open earlier or later than usual if I know someone is coming, particularly over a weekend or a bank holiday,’ he says. ‘We give the customer time to view and handle the item without any distractions.’
SUCCESS BY APPOINTMENT Top tips for one-on-one antiques shopping K Give sufficient notice of when you intend to visit a dealer – if you call on the day you want to meet, they may not have a time slot or be able to attend.
LVS Decorative Arts; Alex MacArthur; Doe & Hope
K T here’s no need to feel pressured into spending money; the dealer is expecting to show you what they have on offer, and not necessarily to make a sale. MacArthur’s Grade-I listed monastery is a treasure trove of artefacts
For buyers who’ve never shopped this way before, Pritchard says it’s helpful if potential customers outline what they’re looking for, in case he has stock that is not listed on his website. He, along with many dealers, is also happy for buyers to make offers on pieces, and stresses that there is no obligation to spend money. One thing he asks is that enquirers give plenty of notice before an appointment. But before you pick up the phone, you may still hesitate. Do you need a sizeable bank account for this kind of antiques shopping? ‘Not necessarily,’ says Rebecca Davies. ‘Don’t be put off ff – you might miss some amazing finds.’ Q
K Inform the dealer of the item, or kind of items, you like when you contact them. That will give them the chance to prepare for your visit. K If you don’t know what you are looking for, find a dealer you think might suit your tastes and ask for their help in choosing items. K Don’t forget your appointment; a dealer may have to travel to their premises to meet you. Equally, be punctual and call ahead if you think you might be delayed. K A sk for an idea of prices before you visit, to make sure that some of the pieces on sale will be within your budget.
K If you need to cancel, do so in plenty of time. And if you find something else in the meantime, be sure to tell the dealer. K Avoid asking for an odd time slot – dealers are often happy to open early morning or in the evening, but they may not be inclined to unlock their premises after dark at 10pm on a Saturday night. K If you can, familiarise yourself with the kind of stock the dealer sells before you visit. You don’t want to arrive and find that they specialise in mostly 19th-century oak furniture when you prefer mid-century design. K Make the most of having the full attention of an expert to answer your questions, and find out as much as possible about the pieces you are interested in. K Make sure you return if you were happy with the service – the more often you visit a dealer, the more you can trust that they will know the sort of things that you like.
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Mounted by Bonhams, a sell-out ‘white glove’ auction of the contents of Glyn Cywarch house in the dramatic landscape of north Wales ensured the property’s future, while also revealing some very special antiques. CAROLINE WHEATER takes a look
H&A GUIDE: Sale story
OUR EXPERTS The charming Harlech family seat in north west Wales, Glyn Cywarch, which is in need of extensive repairs. The 7th Baron Harlech arranged the sale of some of its contents at Bonhams to fund the necessary work
Charlie Thomas Director of Bonhams’ House Sale and Private Collections department Justin Croft Antiquarian manuscripts & books expert and Antiques Roadshow specialist
TOP AND ABOVE Daniel Quigley’s The Godolphin Arabian, depicting a Yemeni foal that became a thoroughbred bloodline. The painting fetched £100,000 RIGHT A pair of c1805 Chamberlains Worcester cachepots went for £350
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which all lots are sold – in March. The auction, held at the New Bond Street salesroom, lasted a marathon 10 hours and was conducted by four auctioneers, finishing up with Thomas himself. Beguiled by the provenance of the pieces up for sale, bidders swooped upon the 531 lots and parted with a total of £2,599,038 – more than twice the original estimate. The raising of over £2.5m gladdened the heart of Lord Harlech, who inherited this wonderful old place from his father Francis, the 6th Baron, early in 2016. He has big plans to transform Glyn into an upmarket country guest house, as well as repairing the roof and putting the interiors ‘back to flagstones, panelling and limewash, as it should
be’. But this kind of painstaking restoration work swallows money, large amounts of it, and funds were needed. Rare treasures Like all auctions of this scale, much preparation was required. On his first visit to Glyn, Charlie Thomas remembers driving through the Snowdonia National Park to get to the village of Talsarnau where the house is located. ‘Glyn is in a wonderful, magnificent setting and you arrive via an imposing gatehouse at the front. Inside, the house was very dark – I got my torch out in some rooms – but it was really exciting and full of atmosphere. House sales are rare these days, and it’s especially rare to go into an important country house where the contents are not already well documented.’ After an initial assessment, Thomas returned a few weeks later with a small
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It’s rare to go into an important country house where the contents are not already well documented
team of specialists to go through the house. They went room by room, up into the attic and out into barns cataloguing and listing items that were to be sold – a process that took over a week. ‘We’d been round and seen everything, but it wasn’t really until we started cataloguing that we realised the scale and quality of the items,’ says Thomas. The Ormsby Gores were at the centre of British political life for over a century and enjoyed the trappings that go with wealth and power gained by their ancestors, the Shropshire and Caernarvonshire-based Owens, Wynns, Ormsbys and Gores. The first Baron Harlech, Conservative politician John Ormsby Gore, was ennobled in 1876 and notable descendants include the 4th Baron Harlech, who denounced Hitler at a League of Nations conference in 1933, and the 5th Baron, Sir David Ormsby Gore, appointed Ambassador to the United States in 1961 and a close
friend and advisor to President John Kennedy and his wife Jackie. Ormsby Gore family fortunes waxed and waned and Glyn Cywarch, a beautiful and secluded holiday home from the 19th century onwards, became David Ormsby Gore’s main residence in 1970. It was his son Francis’s too, who also had the unenviable k of selling up the family seat, Brogyntyn Hall in Shropshire, in 2001 after settling crippling death duties. ‘Many of the items that went up for auction came from Brogyntyn to Glyn,’ explains Charlie Thomas. One of the biggest finds during cataloguing was a portrait that had hung in the drawing room of an Ormsby Gore ancestor, the Welsh heiress Ellen Maurice. ‘Our paintings specialist Andrew McKenzie noticed the way one of her hands was painted and said, “I’ve seen that hand before”.’ Sure enough,
TOP FROM LEFT Jasset Ormsby Gore, 7th Baron Harlech; the drawing room at Glyn Cywarch with the newly attributed Gheeraerts t portrait t it that fetched £269,000 ABOVE A rare cream silk coverlet made in 18th-century China for export was bought for £10,625 ABOVE RIGHT An 18th-century natural history book by the Comte de Buffon from Glyn Cywarch’s extensive library sold for £2,125
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Inside one of the bedrooms at Glyn Cywarch. Three vintage top hats, a Stetson and their boxes made ÂŁ1,187. The George III giltwood chairs are part of a set of seven that sold for an incredible ÂŁ47,500
Inside, the house was very dark but it was really exciting and full of atmosphere
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he had seen it, on a painting by Marcus Gheeraerts, court painter to Elizabeth I. The portrait of Ellen was subsequently attributed to Gheeraerts and fetched £269,000. Elsewhere on the estate, a creaky wooden door opening into a stone barn revealed a treasure trove of Georgian antiques, including a rather dusty but beautiful late 18th-century mahogany serpentine commode, very possibly by Thomas Chippendale, which sold for £17,500 at the Bonhams auction. The most newsworthy revelation was a cache of letters written by David Ormsby Gore and Jackie Kennedy around whom speculation swirled after the untimely death of JFK (see box below right). Portraits and porcelain As is always the case with country house contents sales, there was plenty that was very affordable and bargains included a pair of 1805 Chamberlains Worcester yellow cachepots that fetched £350, a large Victorian copper boiling pot, £400, and a pair of early 20th-century toleware tea canisters, £750. Those with a bit more to spend could bid on mid-range antiques such as a pair of 19th-century Chinese porcelain parrots, £1,750, a 19th-century diamond hair ornament, £1,875, and a late 18th-century painted and carved beech sofa, £1,375, plus lots of other workaday period furniture. Connoisseur pieces on the other hand ranged from the 1795 equine portrait The Godolphin Arabian by Irish artist Daniel Quigley that sold for £100,000, two Elizabethan oak tiered buffets c15801600, £143,000, and a beautiful 18th-century Chinese silk coverlet that went for £10,625. Having spent eight months organising the sale, Charlie Thomas missed thinking about Glyn once the final hammer had gone down, but was delighted to see every item go to a new home. ‘It was hard for Lord Harlech to part with some things and he had to make some tough decisions. But all the funds raised will be ploughed back into the estate. Jasset’s got bags of energy and a plan for the future, which is what Glyn Cywarch needs.’ Q
ABOVE FROM LEFT The winning bid on a pair of antique Chinese porcelain parrots was £1,750; a late
18th-century serpentine commode was not in perfect condition but still fetched £17,500; a set of seven late 1700s giltwood armchairs with needlepoint upholstery raised gasps when it sold for £47,500
WORDS FROM THE HEART ‘The market for letters, journals and diaries is constant and very strong,’ says Justin Croft, antiquarian books specialist. ‘It’s to do with the sense of the unique – the item doesn’t exist anywhere else and it casts new light on things we thought we knew.’ In this light, the discovery at Glyn Cywarch of a cache of letters sent between Sir David Ormsby Gore, Ambassador to the US in the Kennedy era, and his dear friends Jackie and JFK prompted huge excitement at Bonhams. Since Ormsby Gore’s death in 1985, the letters, plus photos and an invitation to JFK’s funeral had been locked away in two Foreign Office despatch boxes that had to be sawn open. Of most interest were 19 letters from
Jackie Kennedy and David Ormsby Gore photographed in 1966
Jackie, charting her days as First Lady, JFK’s assassination in 1963, up to her marriage to Aristotle Onassis in 1968. Ormsby Gore’s wife Sissie was killed in a car crash in 1967 and the letters he sent Jackie afterwards (he took copies) prove what has long been speculated; that he was deeply in love with her. Charlie Thomas explains: ‘After Sissie’s death, he completely fell for Jackie and, after spending an increasing amount of time together, in February 1968 proposed. Jackie’s tenderly written final letter, sent from Onassis’s yacht, Christina, set out to explain why she’d married him instead.’ Says Justin Croft: ‘It’s rare to discover a significant landmark in the lives of such important people and is testament to British reserve and secrecy.’ The Kennedy-Harlech letters sold to a private bidder for £100,000.
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View of Hanbury Hall across the parterre garden ABOVE RIGHT Many of the walls and ceilings at Hanbury Hall are painted by Sir James Thornhill
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he county of Worcestershire has made some significant contributions to English culture. It was here that Royal Worcester, one of the oldest and best-known china brands in the world, was established; the county is also the birthplace of the composer Edward Elgar and, in 1837, the iconic condiment Worcestershire Sauce was invented in the city. But for any visitor, the first port of call should be Worcester’s magnificent cathedral, (worcestercathedral.co.uk). This religious site has seventh-century origins and has recently undergone a programme of restoration that was completed in 2011. Its library contains almost 300 medieval manuscripts as well as a music collection with works by Elgar. Dating back to 1751, Royal Worcester is one of the oldest English ceramics brands, and the Museum of Royal Worcester in the city (museumofroyalworcester.org) tells its story. Housed in the former factory works, the museum contains over 10,000 ceramic objects. Among the collection, look out for the country’s earliest blue-and-white porcelain pieces. Also in the heart of the city, Greyfriars’ House and Garden is a historic jewel (nationaltrust.org.uk/greyfriarshouse-and-garden). This late medieval merchant’s house is packed with pieces that reveal its intriguing past, including six working antique clocks and 70 painted doorstops.
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was born in Worcester and as a 13-year-old boy I used to visit the Museum of Royal Worcester, which sparked my interest in antiques. Now my office is 50 yards from the museum. Worcester is lovely; it’s known as the Faithful City, and is very historic. The Battle of Worcester [the last of the English Civil Wars] took place here in 1651, and the Malvern Hills are close by. My work is my hobby and I feel very lucky to do what I do.
Worcester’s museums
A former teacher with a passion for classic cars, Philip Serrell swapped the classroom for the salesroom and a career as an auctioneer, antiques expert and television presenter. He regularly appears on BBC programmes such as Bargain Hunt, Flog It! and Antiques Road Trip and has run his salesroom in Great Malvern since 1995. serrell.com
The Museum of Royal Worcester is a fantastic museum that has had a great impact on the city (museumofroyalworcester.org). There are plenty of other museums too, like the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum and the Masonic Library and Museum, which no one knows about (worcestermasonicmuseum.co.uk). For me, museums aren’t just places full of old stuff, they tell you about the character of the county.
Antiques shopping Two favourites are M Lees & Sons (leesantiquesworcester.com) and Bygones of Worcester (bygonesofworcester.co.uk). I’ve known Mike Lees for around 45 years and Gabrielle Bullock [owner of Bygones of Worcester] for probably 30 years. There are lots of other vintage and retro shops in Worcester that are well worth a look too.
Antiques advice My first boss said to me: ‘Let your eyes be your guide and your pocket be your judge!’ If you see something that you like, you should buy it. Too many people are driven by what an item is worth; you should buy what you love. You wouldn’t buy a piece of clothing that you didn’t like and it’s the same with antiques. Personally, I have a fondness for mid-century collectables, but my tastes change all the time.
What to look out for further afield Locally, it’s got to be Worcester porcelain. Apart from that, Edward Elgar was a Worcestershire man, so you might find an original manuscript from the composer’s Enigma Variations!
FROM TOP Late 19th-century Italian Grand Tour souvenir paperweight ‘The Doves of Pliny’, £800; pair of 19th-century gilt bronze cassolettes of neoclassical design on white marble bases, £900. All from M Lees & Sons, Worcester BELOW Hartlebury Castle, a 13th-century fortified manor and home to Worcestershire County Museum
Don’t miss… the Malvern Flea and Collectors Fair The next one’s on 17th September (b2bevents.info) at the Three Counties Showground. I think it’s one of the best antiques markets around. There’s such variety of items there: you can spend a pound or 10,000 pounds. It’s a real occasion. ABOVE Philip recommends the Malvern Flea and Collectors Fair as one of the best antiques markets around
Where to go… Hartlebury Castle Grade I-listed, 13th-century Hartlebury Castle, near Stourporton-Severn is one of those hidden gems that visitors should make a beeline for. It houses the Worcestershire County Museum too. H&A O C T O B E R 2 017 141
Spilling into Herefordshire and the northern fringes of Gloucestershire are the glorious Malvern Hills
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Edward Elgar
was born in this early 19th-century cottage; Royal Worcester ‘Dudley’ teapot, 1865; circular mirror above the marble fireplace in the Sitting Room at Hanbury Hall; the Royal Worcester factory in the early 20th century
ABOVE Worcester Cathedral sits on a high bank overlooking the tranquil River
Severn. With medieval cloisters, ancient crypt and chapter house, the cathedral houses the royal tombs of King John and Prince Arthur
National Trust Images/Jane Hubbard; Museum of Royal Worcester; National Trust Images/Dennis Gilbert; Worcestershire Tourism/Pete Cheshire
Beyond the confines of Worcester, the rest of the county is rich with history. Travel just north west of the city to discover Hanbury Hall and Gardens, an elegant country mansion built for lawyer and local MP Thomas Vernon in 1701, in the William and Mary style (nationaltrust. org.uk/hanbury-hall-and-gardens). The property houses magnificent wall and ceiling paintings by Sir James Thornhill, famous for his large-scale baroque compositions that adorn other great houses of the 18th century, such as Chatsworth and Blenheim Palace, as well as the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral. As beautiful as this stately home is, it’s the 20 acres of gardens that steal the show at Hanbury. They were designed in 1705 by the renowned nurseryman George London, who also created landscapes at Chatsworth, Kensington Palace and Hampton Court. Within a century, however, the formal parterre, fruit gardens and wilderness were replaced in favour of Capability Brown-style ‘natural’ landscapes. In the early 1990s, the National Trust launched a project to restore the gardens using London’s original plans and planting lists. Since 1995, visitors have been able to appreciate his vision in all its perfectly proportioned glory. This September also sees the reopening of Edward Elgar’s birthplace at The Firs in Lower Broadheath (nationaltrust.org. uk/the-firs). Visitors can learn about his life and influences in this pretty 19th-century cottage. Spilling over into Herefordshire and the northern fringes of Gloucestershire are the glorious Malvern Hills, giving visitors the opportunity to experience the great outdoors as well as stunning views over to the Severn Valley and even towards the Black Mountains in Wales. You can download walks for all levels from visitthemalverns.org, as well as more leisurely urban trails around the historic town of Upton-uponSevern. With a town centre of distinctive black-and-white 17th-century buildings, it also has a marina and a lively programme of events including jazz, blues and folk festivals. * visitworcestershire.org
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NORTH & SCOTLAND 1st Fancy That? Vintage Bazaar, Inglis Hall, High Street, Edzell, Angus, DD9 7TF. 11am–4pm. Free. 01356 648732; wefancythat.co.uk 7th Antique, Vintage & Collectors Fair, Albert Halls, Dumbarton Road, Stirling, FK8 2QL. 10am–4pm. £2. 01764 654555; scotfairs.co.uk 7th AdVintageous Vintage Fair, Leeds City Market, 28–34 George Street, Leeds, LS2 7HY. 10am–4pm. Free. advintageous.co.uk 7th The Manchester Vintage Furniture Flea, Royal Mills, Redhill Street, Manchester, M4 5BA. 10am– 4pm. Free. judysvintagefair.co.uk 7th–8th The Great Wetherby Racecourse Antiques Fair, Wetherby Racecourse, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS22 5EJ. 8am–5pm Saturday, 9am–4pm Sunday. £4 (£5 before 9am Saturday). 01332 830444; jaguarfairs.com 8th The Vintage Home Show, Pudsey Civic Hall, Leeds, LS28 5TA. 10.30am–4pm. £2.50 (£4 before 11am). 07880 910361; vintagehomeshow.co.uk 8th The Vintage Village, Stockport Covered Market Hall, Market Place, Stockport, SK1 1EU. 10am–4pm. £2. thevintagevillage.co.uk 8th The Magpie Wedding Show (formerly The National Vintage Wedding Fair), Cedar Court Hotel, Park Parade, Harrogate, HG1 5AH. 11am–3.30pm. £2. 07817 855287; magpiewedding.com 15th The Magpie Wedding Show (formerly The National Vintage Wedding Fair), Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road, Manchester, M13 0FE. 11am–3.30pm. £4. 07817 855287; magpiewedding.com 15th The Leeds Vintage Furniture Flea, Castle Grove Masonic Hall, Castle Grove Drive, Leeds, LS6 4BP.
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10.30am–4.30pm. £2 (£3 before 11am). judysvintagefair.co.uk 21st AdVintageous Vintage Fair, The Spa, South Bay, Scarborough, YO11 2HD. 10am–4pm. £3. advintageous.co.uk 22nd The Vintage Home Show, Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road, Manchester, M13 0FE. 10.30am– 4pm. £3 (£5 before 11am). 07880 910361; vintagehomeshow.co.uk
WEST & WALES 1st Liberty Green Antiques & Collectables Fair, Beaufort Park Hotel, Mold, Flintshire, CH7 6RQ. 9am–4pm. £1. 07572 109520; libertygreenantiques.co.uk
1st The Frome Independent – More Than a Market, Frome town centre, Somerset, BA11. 10am–3pm. Free. thefromeindependent.org.uk 1st & 29th Bath Vintage & Antiques Market, Green Park Station, Green Park Road, Bath, BA1 1JB. 8am–4pm. Free. 07711 900095; vintageandantiques.co.uk 7th Llandeilo Antiques and Vintage Fair, Llandeilo Civic Hall, Crescent Road, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, SA19 6HW. 10am–4pm. £1. 01267 220260; derwenantiques.co.uk 7th Lostwithiel Antique & Collectors Market, Scout Hut, Cattle Market Car Park, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, PL22 0HE. 10am–1pm. Donation. 01503 240768 7th–8th National Botanic Garden of You’ll be amazed by the range at your local antiques fair
Wales Antiques Fair and Vintage Market, National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire, SA32 8HG. 10am–4.30pm. £4. 01267 220260; derwenantiques.co.uk 7th–8th Cornwall’s Mid-century & Vintage Festival, Bedruthan Hotel & Spa, Mawgan Porth, Newquay, Cornwall, TR8 4BU. 10am–4pm. £1.50. 01637 861200; duchyfairs.co.uk 7th–8th The Margam Park Antiques, Art & Design Fair, The Orangery, Margam Park, Port Talbot, SA13 2TJ. 11am–5pm Saturday, 11am–4pm Sunday. £4. 01327 264624; allenlewisfairs.co.uk 8th The Bristol Vintage Furniture Flea, Paintworks, Bath Road, Bristol, BS4 3EH. 10.30am–4.30pm. £2 (£3 before 11am). judysvintagefair.co.uk 14th Liberty Green Antiques Collectables Vintage Fair, Wrexham Memorial Hall, Bodhyfryd, Wrexham, LL12 7AG. 9am–3.30pm. £1. 07572 109520; libertygreenantiques.co.uk 15th The Giant Shepton Flea Market, The Royal Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 6QN. 9.30am– 4pm. £4.50. 01278 784912; sheptonflea.com 21st Autumn Vintage Bazaar, The Cheese and Grain, Frome, BA11 1BE. 9am–3pm. £2. thevintagebazaar.blogspot.co.uk 21st–22nd Antiques Fair, RHS Garden Rosemoor, Torrington, Devon, EX38 8PH. 10am–5pm. £12.10 (RHS members free). 01363 776600; antiques-fairs.com 21st–22nd Antiques Fair, The Showground, Gwalchmai, Holyhead, Anglesey, LL65 4RW. 8.30am–5pm Saturday, 10am–5pm Sunday. £4 (£8 before 10am Saturday). 01584 873634; continuityfairs.co.uk 22nd The Magpie Wedding Show (formerly The National Vintage
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Wedding Fair), The Assembly Rooms, Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QH. 11am–3.30pm. £2. 07817 855287; magpiewedding.com 29th Carmarthen Antiques & Flea Market, United Counties Showground, The Showground, Nantyci, Carmarthen, SA33 5DR. 10am–4pm. £4. 01267 236569; towyevents.co.uk 29th Purbeck Antiques and Collectors Fair, Furzebrook Hall, Furzebrook, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 5AR. 10am–4pm. £1. 01929 761398; purbeckantiquesfairs.co.uk
SOUTH 1st Lingfield Antiques, Collectables and Vintage Fair, Lingfield Park Racecourse, Racecourse Road, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6PQ. 9.30am–4pm. £3 (£5 before 10.30am).
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01293 690777; lovefairs.com 1st London Writing Equipment Show, The Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury, Coram Street, London, WC1N 1HT. 10.30am–4pm. £5. 01543 415603; ukpenshows.co.uk 3rd–8th The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair, Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, London, SW11 4NJ. Opening times vary. £10. 020 7616 9327; decorativefair.com 7th Antiques & Collectors Fair, Mill Hill Village, St Paul’s Church Hall, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London, NW7 1QU. 9am–4pm. £1. 07887 648255; marcelfairs.co.uk 7th Vintage & Very Nice Market Bazaar, The Assembly Rooms, North Street, Chichester, PO19 1LQ. 10am–5pm. Free. 01243 531074; vintageandverynice.co.uk 8th Surrey Art Deco & 20th Century Design Fair, Village Hall, Portsmouth Road, Milford, Surrey, GU8 5DS. 10am–4.30pm. £1. 07976 317828
8th London Antique Textile Fair, Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, London, SW3 5EE. 10.30am– 4.30pm. £6. 020 7923 0331; textilesociety.org.uk 8th Vauxhall Vintage & Antiques Market, The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, SE1 7AG. 10am–4pm. Free. 07711 900095; vintageandantiques.co.uk 10th & 31st Sunbury Antiques Market, Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Road East, Sunbury-onThames, Middlesex, TW16 5AQ. 6.30am–2pm. Free. 01932 230946; sunburyantiques.com 15th Midcentury East, Erno Goldfinger’s Haggerston School, Weymouth Terrace, London, E2 8LS. 10am–4pm. £10. modernshows.com 15th Dorking Halls Antiques Fair, Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1SG. 9.30am–4pm. £2.50. 07952 689717; dovehousefineantiquesfairs.com
17th Antiques Fair, Epsom Racecourse, South London, KT18 5LP. 9am–3pm. £3. 01584 873634; continuityfairs.co.uk 22nd Clerkenwell Vintage Fashion Fair, Courthouse Hotel Shoreditch, 335–337 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LL. 11am–5pm. £4. clerkenwellvintagefashionfair.co.uk 22nd Brighton Antiques, Collectables and Vintage Fair, Brighton Racecourse, Freshfield Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 9XZ. 9.30am–4pm. £3 (£5 before 10.30am). 01293 690777; lovefairs.com 24th Sandown Park Market, Sandown Park Racecourse, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AJ. From 8am. Free (parking £5). 01636 702326; iacf.co.uk 31st–5th November Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia, Olympia London, Hammersmith Road, London, W14 8UX. Opening times vary. £20
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THIS MONTH’S TICKET OFFERS 2–FOR–1 6th–8th The Esher Hall Antiques & Fine Art Fair, Esher Hall, Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AJ. Opening times vary. £5. esherhallfair.com
2–FOR–1 15th Frock Me! Vintage Fashion Fair, Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 5EE. 11am–5.30pm. £4. 020 7503 9171; frockmevintagefashion.com
2–FOR–1 7th–8th The October Seaside Vintage Fair, Whitby Pavilion, West Cliff, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO21 3EN. 9.30am– 4pm. £2. 07985 181120; roseandbrownvintage.co.uk
2–FOR–1 19th–22nd The Northern Antiques Fair, Hall M, Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2RD. Opening times vary. £7.50. 01797 252030; harrogateantiquefair.com
2–FOR–1 8th & 29th Adams Antiques Fair, Lindley Hall, The Royal Horticultural Halls, Elverton Street, London, SW1P 2QW. 10am– 4.30pm. £4. 020 7254 4054; adamsantiquesfairs.com
2–FOR–1 20th–22nd Galloway Antiques & Fine Art Fair, Cowdray House, Cowdray Park, Midhurst, West Sussex, GU29 0AY. 10.30am–5pm. £5. 01423 522122; gallowayfairs.co.uk
2–FOR–FREE 12th–15th Chester Antiques Show, County Grandstand, Chester Racecourse, Watergate Square, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 2LY. 10.30am–5pm. £5. 01886 833091; penman-fairs.co.uk
2–FOR–FREE 27th–29th The Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair, Westonbirt School, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8QG. 11am–5pm. £5. 01278 784912; cooperevents.com
2–FOR–1 13th–15th Bruton Decorative Antiques Fair, Haynes International, Sparkford, Somerset, BA22 7LH. 11am–5pm (2pm–5pm Friday). £5. 01278 784912; brutondecorativeantiquesfair.co.uk
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7th Halesworth Brocante, The Old Print Works, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 8AP. 9am–3pm. Free. 01986 948546 14th The City Antiques Fair and Fleamarket, St Andrew’s Hall, St Andrew’s Plain, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1AU. 9am–4.30pm. £2. 07867 521184; thecityantiquesfairand fleamarket.co.uk 20th–22nd Holkham Hall Antiques Fair, Holkham Hall, Wells-nextthe-Sea, Norfolk, NR23 1AB. 11am–4.30pm. £4. 01379 586134; lomaxfairs.com 21st Mainwaring’s Seaside Brocante, St Mary’s Hall, Oxford Street, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 1DD. 10am–4pm. £1. 01227 773037
CENTRAL 1st Antiques Fair, The Kube, Leicester Racecourse, Leicester Road, Oadby, Leicester, LE2 4AL. 9.30am–3pm. £3. 07772 349431; fielddogfairs.com 1st Antiques & Collectors Fair, Bantock House Museum, Finchfield Road, Wolverhampton, WV3 9LQ. 10am–3.30pm. £1.50. 07976 643174; bantockhouse.co.uk 8th Antiques & Collectors Fair, Sarratt Village Hall, The Green, Sarratt, Hertfordshire, WD3 6AS. 9.30am–4pm. £1. 07887 648255; marcelfairs.co.uk 8th Malvern Flea & Collectors Fair, The Severn Hall, Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 6NW. 7.30am–3.30pm. £5. 01636 676531; b2bevents.info 8th Bishop’s Waltham Brocante, High Street, Bishop’s Waltham, Hampshire, SO32 1GH. 10am–4pm. Free. 07514 680872 9th–10th Lincolnshire Antiques & Home Show, Lincolnshire Showground, Lincoln, LN2 2NA.
8am–5pm. £20 Monday, £5 Tuesday. 01298 27493; asfairs.com 12th–13th Newark International Antiques & Collectors Fair, Newark & Nottinghamshire Showground, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 2NY. 9am–6pm Thursday, 8am–4pm Friday. £20 Thursday, £5 Friday. 01636 702326; iacf.co.uk 14th–15th Luton Antiques & Fine Art Fair, Putteridge Bury House, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 8LE. 10.30am–5pm Saturday, 10.30am– 4.30pm Sunday. £3.50. 07939 302425; specialfairs.co.uk 14th–15th Antiques, Collectors & Vintage Fair, British Motor Museum, Banbury Road, Gaydon, Warwickshire, CV35 0BJ. 9.30am–4pm. £4. 07772 349431; fielddogfairs.com 15th Antiques in Tents, Burton Court, Eardisland, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 9DN. 9am– 4pm. £4. 01544 267033; antiquesintents.co.uk 16th Stoneleigh Antiques Market, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2LG. 9am–1pm. £2.50. 01298 27493; asfairs.com 21st Stable Yard Antiques & Collectables Market, Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL9 5HX. 10am–5pm. Free. 07751 296625; stableyardshops.co.uk 22nd Antiques Fair, Wicksteed Pavilion, Barton Road, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN15 6NJ. 9.30am–4pm. £3. 07772 349431; fielddogfairs.com 22nd Antiques & Collectors Fair, Bushey Golf & Country Club, High Street, Bushey, Hertfordshire, WD23 1TT. 9.30am–4pm. £1. 07887 648255; marcelfairs.co.uk 28th–29th Nottingham Racecourse Antiques & Vintage Fair, Nottingham Racecourse, Racecourse Road, Nottingham, NG2 4BE. 8am–5pm Saturday, 9am–4pm Sunday. £3 (£4 before 9am Saturday). 01332 830444; jaguarfairs.com 29th Antiques & Collectors Fair, Berkhamsted Sports Centre, Lagley Meadow, Douglas Gardens, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, HP4 3QQ. 9.30am–4pm. £2. 07887 648255; marcelfairs.co.uk
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The Old Flight House Antiques centre The Old Flight House is a refreshingly different antiques centre. It has a fantastic range, from quality traditional antiques to vintage and retro items and stunning painted furniture, all set out in beautiful light and spacious surroundings. A licensed cafe serves good coffee and freshly prepared lunches with a lovely outside terrace for sunny days.
• Open Monday to Saturday 10am–5pm, Sunday 11am–5pm. Northampton Road, Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire, OX25 3TJ 01869 343441
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Marlesford Mill Antiques Centre Antiques Centre Home to a fabulously eclectic mix of antiques, collectables and decorative wares, Marlesford Mill has two floors of constantly changing stock. A great one-stop shop for furnishing a home with affordable style and individuality, it has glass, mirrors, furniture, costume jewellery, clothes, vinyl, upholstery, kitchenalia and garden furniture, with bespoke furniture made on site. On the main A12 route from London to Norfolk.
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Home & Colonial Antiques Store Antiques Centre
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Five floors of inspirational antique and vintage shopping for you and your home. A delicious lunch in the Black Goo Cafe is the perfect way to complement a visit to one of the UK’s most attractive and innovative antique shops.
• Open seven days a week. 134 High Street, Berkhamsted, Herts, HP4 3AT. Berkhamsted is approximately 45 minutes north of central London and very close to both the M1 (J8) and M25 (J20).
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Winchester Antiques Market Antiques Fair A bustling street market in the heart of historic Winchester, where on the first Sunday of each month you can buy from an eclectic mix of up to 80 traders.
• Antiques & 20th Century Collectibles Market, 1st Sunday of every month • Art & Design Market, 3rd Sunday of every month. Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9AX
134 High Street . Berkhamsted . HP4 3AT
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The Northern Antiques Fair Antiques Fair
Ardingly International Antiques & Collectors Fair Antiques Fair A fantastic midweek fair bursting with choice, from rustic garden goods and homewares to traditional antique furniture and vintage textiles. Not to be missed, this is truly an international event!
The Northern Antiques Fair at the Harrogate Convention Centre, 19–22 October, is on target to become the premier antiques fair of the North once again. Formerly named The Harrogate Art & Antique Fair and now under new ownership and management, the event proudly resumes its original name dating back to 1951. Its mix of antiques, mid-century and contemporary pieces will appeal to the design-savvy looking for unusual one-off objects. 01797 252030
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Newark International Antiques & Collectors Fair Antiques Fair Experience the ultimate of antiques events with a trip to Newark. An unrivalled product choice – with stalls covering 84 acres! For all your antique and vintage desires, it really is 'The Big One'!
• Tuesday 7th to Wednesday 8th November • Tuesday 16th to Wednesday 17th January 2018 South of England Showground, Ardingly, West Sussex, RH17 6TL
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Acreman St. Antiques & Interiors Antiques Centre A large antiques centre on the edge of Sherborne with 45 dealers, Acreman Street Antiques Centre specialises in quality from antique to vintage, including jewellery, silver, furniture and decorative items for the house and garden. They also have an in-house jewellery repair workshop, free customer parking and a tea room for light lunches. They will also purchase your unwanted items.
• Thursday 12th and Friday 13th October • Thursday 7th and Friday 8th December Newark & Nottinghamshire Showground, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 2NY
• Monday to Saturday 10am–5pm, Sunday 11am–4pm. 121 Acreman Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3PH
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B2B Events Antiques Fair
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Shepton Mallet Antiques, Vintage & Collectors Fair Antiques Fair
B2B Events run the very best in antiques and collectors fairs, vintage, flea and retro fairs.
Visit this premier West Country antiques event to buy quality in quantity. From delicate glassware to chic leather items, and a multitude more besides, it’s a buying opportunity you won’t want to miss.
• Sun 17th Sept & Sun 8th Oct – Malvern Flea & Collectors Fair, Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcs, WR13 6NW. The largest Flea fair in the UK with hundreds of exhibitors selling an eclectic mix of second-hand items. The perfect place to shop pre-loved! Admission: 7.30am–3.30pm, £5pp.
• Friday 10th to Sunday 12th November • Friday 12th to Sunday 14th January 2018 Royal Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 6QN
01636 676531
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Sandown Park Antiques & Collectors Market Antiques Fair
01636 702326
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Antiques in Tents Antiques Fair
For a great day's shopping head to this admission-FREE Tuesday market. Car parking is £5 or there’s a free minibus shuttle from Esher Rail Station 8.30am–2.30pm.
One-day, quality antiques fair. Great views across the beautiful Herefordshire countryside is the setting for this very popular one-day Sunday fair. Expect the usual high standard of stock presented by 45 dealers from all parts of the country in the large marquee and within rooms of the house itself. Excellent homemade cakes and lunches, and bar. Dogs and children welcome!
• Tuesday 24th October • Tuesday 5th December Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AJ
• Burton Court, Herefordshire, HR6 9DN. Sunday 15th October 2017. Admission: 9.00am–4.00pm, £4.
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Scottish Antique & Arts Centres Antiques Centre
These two centres offer visitors the opportunity to purchase antique furniture, silver, ceramics, paintings, collectables and jewellery from more than 250 antiques dealers. Modern furniture, design-led accessories, gifts and fashion are also available. Enjoy the ambience of Cafe Circa for breakfast and lunch or coffee and cake. Ample free parking.
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Sunbury Antiques Antiques Fair
01828 686401 (Abernyte) 01786 841203 (Doune)
Runway Monday at Newark Antiques & Collectors Fair Antiques Fair
Attracting over 700 inside and outside stallholders, appealing not only to those in the antiques trade, but also to collectors, prop buyers and interior designers. Established since 1979, it has gradually evolved into the largest and longest-running twicemonthly market in the country and the team is immensely proud to now be recognised as one of Europe’s premier antiques markets.
Held between the larger fairs at Newark, the Runway is an excellent opportunity to top-up on all things antique and vintage.
• Monday 20th November • Monday 19th March 2018 The Runway, adjacent to Newark Air Museum, Newark & Nottinghamshire Showground, NG24 2NY
• Second and last Tuesday of every month, 6.30am–2pm, 26th Sept, 10th Oct, 31st Oct, 14th Nov, Kempton Park Racecourse, TW16 5AQ. Free admission and parking.
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Alexandra Palace Antiques, Vintage & Collectors Fair Antiques Fair
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Antiques & Home Show Antique Fair Attracting visitors from all four corners of the world, this large-scale show has become an unmissable buying opportunity for collectors, retail buyers, interior designers, set designers, props buyers, landscape architects, restaurateurs and those passionate about creating a stylish living space.
A great variety of quality products, a pop-up vintage area and complimentary valuations from a professional, all help make this the capital’s largest Sunday antiques event.
• Sunday 19th November Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, N22 7AY
• Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th October • Monday 4th & Tuesday 5th December 8am–5pm. Monday £20 (includes Tuesday entry), Tuesday £5. Lincolnshire Showground, LN2 2NA
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Hemswell Antiques Centre Antiques Centre
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Galloway Fairs Antiques Fair Nationally known dealers selling a wide range of items to include town and country furniture, silver, jewellery, antique and contemporary art.
Visit the home of Europe’s largest range of antiques and collectables, with approximately 400 dealers in four large buildings. A wide range of stock is always on display, including period furniture, decorative antiques, vintage, retro, clocks, mirrors, books, lighting, linen, silver, glass, jewellery, ceramics, paintings, and leather and sporting goods. Nationwide delivery available. Caenby Corner Estate, Hemswell Cliff, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, DN21 5TJ
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Open 10.30am–5.00pm, Sunday 10.30am–4.30pm. Normal admission £7, but H&A readers can get two for the price of one.
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• Duncombe Park, Helmsley, North Yorkshire, YO62 5EB. Friday 22nd–Sunday 24th September 2017.
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Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Antiques Fair
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Dairy House Antiques Antiques Centre
Discover the wonderful world of antiques at QEGS Antiques Fair. This spectacular setting plays host to an exciting variety of stalls featuring collectables, vintage, retro, books, jewellery and ephemera displayed across two exhibition halls. With homemade refreshments and ample free parking there is something here for everyone.
Dairy House Antiques offers an eclectic mix of items to buy. Featuring 30+ dealers, the vast array of stock, including furniture, silver, jewellery, mirrors, lighting, soft furnishings and gardenalia, changes regularly. Open seven days a week, close to the A303 and A350 on the Dorset/Wiltshire border. Free parking.
• Saturday 14th Oct. 9am–4pm public, trade from 8am.
• Monday–Saturday 10am–5pm, Sunday 11am–4pm Station Road, Semley, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 9AN
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, 154 Northgate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 3QY
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Marcel Fairs Antiques Fair
Station Mill Antiques Centre With 80 high quality stockists of antiques, Station Mill is an ideal place to shop. It has a wide variety of antiques, vintage and collectables beautifully displayed over two levels in a large open-plan building. Come along and spend the day browsing – stop for lunch in the coffee shop and pick up something special and unique.
• Saturday 7th October, Saturday 4th November, Mill Hill Fairs, St Paul’s Church Hall, The Ridgeway, London, NW7 1QU. 9am–4pm. £1 • Sunday 8th October, Sarratt Village Hall, The Green, WD3 6AS. 9.30am–4pm. £1 • Sunday 29th October, Berkhamsted Fairs, Berkhamsted Sports Centre, Lagley Meadow, Douglas Gardens, Berkhamsted, Herts, HP4 3QQ. 9am–4pm. £2
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• Open seven days a week, Monday to Saturday 10am–5pm, Sundays 11am–4pm. Station Road, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5HX
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The Edenbridge Galleries
01747 853317
dairyhouseantiques.com
Bowman Antiques Fairs Antiques Fair
This prestigious antiques centre in the south of England provides the visitor with a wide variety of antiques and fine art from members of the leading trade associations, BADA and LAPADA. A monthly newsletter can be subscribed to via their website to keep you up to date with the many events they hold throughout the year.
Bowman Antiques Fairs Large quality events at Stafford and Harrogate. www.facebook.com/BowmanAntiquesFairs
• 1 The Square, Church Street, Edenbridge, Kent, TN8 5BD
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National Botanic Garden Of Wales Antiques Fair
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Antiques Centre An Aladdin’s cave in the heart of the Wiltshire countryside, Indigo Antiques carries an impressive range of antique and decorative furniture, architectural pieces, lamps, mirrors, accessories and gifts that are personally sourced from India, China and Tibet. Be inspired and relaxed as you wander around the showrooms, garden area and additional barns.
• Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th October; Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th January, 10am to 4.30pm. National Botanic Garden Of Wales, Llanarthney, Carmarthen, SA32 8HN 01267 220260
01274 588505
Indigo Antiques
Discover quality antiques at this unique location. There are up to 100 stands including an extensive array of furniture, books, porcelain, jewellery, Welsh pottery, textiles and art, and Persian carpets. The Vintage market is a new addition to the established fair, found within the Millennium Square.
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• Monday to Friday 9am–5pm, Saturday 10am–4pm. Dairy Barn, Manningford Bruce, Pewsey, Wilts, SN9 6JW
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COCO CHANEL
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pen your wardrobe, and it’s highly likely that Coco Chanel influenced several items within; and perhaps the same can be said of the pieces in your home. While she made her riches from fashion, Chanel was a complete style icon, who put as much care and attention into her living spaces as she did into her collections. Her homes played host to myriad artists, designers, politicians, poets, royals and entrepreneurs, and her influence crossed continents and design genres. Today, you can only visit the lavish apartment she decorated in Paris by special invitation. As iconic as her name is now, Gabrielle Bonheur ‘Coco’ Chanel spent her formative years in poverty. Born in 1883, she grew up in an austere convent in the south of France, following the death of her mother. Although she found paid employment as a seamstress after this, Chanel spent her nights performing in a local cafe-cum-cabaret, where she used her seductive charms to entertain well-to-do army officers. It was here that she met affluent textile heir Étienne Balsan. She became his lover, developing a taste for fine clothes and jewellery, while The Chanel bouclé skirt suit has regularly partying with his become Coco’s most famous wealthy social set. creation. This set was worn by In 1908, Chanel Queen Paola of Belgium began an affair with Balsan’s friend Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel, who bought her a lavish apartment in Paris and, noticing her flair for design, set her up with a shop selling hats in 1910. After a string of successful fashion boutiques, and following Capel’s tragic death in 1919, Chanel purchased her now-famous property
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A portrait of Chanel in her suite at the Ritz hotel in Paris, shot in 1937, besid e the Coromandel screens she so admired
at 31 Rue Cambon, Paris. She personally transformed it into an emporium of design – where an ingenious use of space allowed her clothes to shine. With a fashion boutique on the ground floor, a couture studio on the first, a private apartment on the second and her studio at the top, the entire space exuded Chanel’s resplendent look. ‘An interior is the natural projection of a soul,’ she once said – for Chanel, this meant her iconic use of black and white with natural beige hues and plenty of gold. No matter how opulent her accessories, this reserved colour palette meant that her look never seemed overdone. In her private rooms, she paired Asian antiques with totally bespoke new pieces: a chandelier made up of interlocking number fives and sofas covered in quilted leather (echoing her classic ‘2.55’ bag) or tan suede. This was an unusual material for upholstery at the time but is now much copied. Chanel’s collection of Coromandel screens were used as wall panels and to divide up her apartment. As you might imagine, this space was a glorious concoction of comfort and luxury: from the elegant displays of rock crystal and sculpture, to her gilded frames and mirrors. Her use of reflection was especially inventive – she devised a faceted mirrored spiral staircase which, as well as looking beautifully art deco, allowed her to sit in one spot and keep a watchful eye over the entire store. Symmetry was also important to Chanel. Animal ornaments Audrey – from lions to frogs – sat in Tautou starring as pairs, while curtains dropped Chanel in perfectly straight with no the 2009 ruffles or flourishes. film, Coco Her other interiors – Before including a fishing lodge Chanel she styled for the Duke of Westminster (her lover) and a villa in the south of France – are imbued with these same interior design rules which, in turn, are an extension of her sense of style that continues to captivate the world today. Q
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Chanel’s influence on fashion and fragrance is undisputed, but this tastemaker should also be celebrated for her impact on interior design, says SOPHIE HANNAM
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Paul Henry RHA Estimate: €80,000–100,000 Whyte’s
Globe drinks trolley Estimate: £40–80 Eastbourne Auctions
500, 0 new 00 ever lots y we ek Meissen ‘schneeballen’ vase Estimate: £3,000–£5,000 Chorley’s
Andrea Landini (1847-1912) Estimate: £20,000–30,000 David Duggleby
Otto Prutscher glasses Sold: £25,000 Fieldings
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King Kong poster Estimate: £20,000–30,000 Sotheby’s
Michael Moebius photograph Sold: £3,000 Maddox Gallery
Victorian carved oak corner chair Sold: £40 Dawson´s
John Hauser Estimate: £1,000–2,000 Ewbank’s
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