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...wooden chimneypiece and cornicing, which recalls the delicately drawn Chippendale-style of master carver Thomas Johnson, stripped back by the property’s owner – a fellow antiques man – to the original wood...
...Diners are installed at ash tables made from wood collected during dieback clearance....
...Their next move was to convert a bathroom off the kitchen into a bijou guest room, adorned with the special Aubusson verdure tapestry that first inspired Antoinette Poisson’s scenic Joli Bois (Pretty Wood...
...Elsewhere are other painterly pieces, many by Pate: lampshades (from €90), ceramic tile renderings of Atelier Vime’s Medici vase (€32), and a rattan-and-wood cabinet decorated with hammered copper leaves...
...The ancient arch gives way to a cocooning wood-panelled room, known as the oak dining room, that’s topped with decorative plasterwork featuring everything from hares to hedgehogs and robins to squirrels,...
...Living in a remote, poorly lit 13th-century farmhouse with shoddy electrics, where the family chop wood and build fires for heat, compelled the former set designer to seek out alternative sources of illumination...
...If you are looking for pointers on instant interiors updates, I direct you to Aimee Farrell’s design overview....
...“I’d never heard of the Weald but absolutely love it,” says Aimee, who prefers not to use her surname....
...Aimee Farrell Brooklyn Museum, New York Housed in a Beaux Arts building, the Brooklyn Museum is celebrated for its ancient Egyptian and African art – and its gift shop offers a playful curation of pieces...
...He goes to Brighton and enjoys a drunken night out with Tom Burke’s bohemian stranger and, later, initiates a chaste friendship with a bubbly former colleague, Miss Harris (Aimee Lou Wood, luminous)....
...For the son of a miner who often worked outside and spent his life carving with English stone – from granite to Hopton-Wood to Cumberland alabaster – these rocks held the power to root humankind, deeply...
...From my bed I can see the birds and squirrels outside in Belsize Wood. When the rain comes down, it just reverberates off the building’s flat roof – it’s therapeutic....
...A small number of rooms have central heating supplemented by open fires and wood-burning stoves that Wilson feeds throughout the day – a demanding but meditative routine....
...Once inside, what’s revealed – from the mirrored dance studio on the first floor, to the wood-panelled kitchen and the sculpture-filled garden – is an artist’s home assembled with the same care, attention...
...“We had to create habitats, so we picked up the clay and began to weave the willow and carve the wood. Craftspeople have been working very closely with nature right from the word go.”...
...Its recent pattern, “Joli Bois” (meaning “pretty wood”), evokes a hunting scene from the age of Marie Antoinette....
...The setting was an industrial warehouse inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard, filled with mounds of cedar wood chips that perfumed the air with a natural fragrance and set the tone for another chapter in Burton...
...Cole’s painterly pieces are peppered with nods to art history – Henry Moore sculptures, Christopher Wood canvases, Eileen Gray chairs – many of which are pulled from a huge cache of auction catalogues inherited...
...The first of Antoinette Poisson’s perfumes is called Joli Bois (pretty wood), a combination of bergamot, juniper and green leaf....
...Aimee Farrell examines why we’re all heading into the woods in “Sylvan Linings”....
...My beauty and wellbeing gurus are Heather at Josh Wood for my signature nails in Chanel’s Pirate red; Rosemary Ferguson for all things nutrition – she makes everything palatable and easy to do; Victoria...
...Through a close collaboration with a quartet of makers who work with wood, silver, brass and leather, he has taken Berluti’s patinas off the runway and into the home....
...The textural loops of Wood’s “Mono Mania Mexico Carpet”, which covers one wall, neatly mirror the bright, kindergarten aesthetic of the Pilotto knits that sit atop a mid-century table from antiques store...
...“The warmth of the wood notes, the depths of the resin and the softness of the musks are based on Antony’s personality; his being,” explains Glasser of the fragrance....
...Twenty artists and designers — including Martino Gamper, Jochen Holz, Bethan Wood and Nathalie Du Pasquier — will create masks and contribute a decorative object or piece of furniture to instil the show...
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