Hints and tips:
...Flower Grid wool rug from Chateau Orlando by Luke Edward Hall for cc-tapis, £3.764....
...“Whence”, as Fowler reminds us in the first edition of his Modern English Usage, is a more elegant (and, in his opinion in 1926, preferable) version of “where from”....
...Case in point: a late 19th or early 20th-century ottoman, currently available via Sibyl Colefax and John Fowler....
...Another useful purchase would be the set of six Regency rail-back dining chairs, whose Colefax & Fowler-upholstered seats are in good nick (est £250-£350), or one of the several handsome and reasonably priced...
...Peter Edwards St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK Letter in response to this letter: More on Lady Susan’s unfortunate question / From John Goodwin, London SW3, UK...
...He learnt these skills in the 1950s, when he was employed in the workshop of interior decorating company Colefax & Fowler....
...Following the letters of Peter Edwards (December 9) and Peter Rose of New York’s “Fowler and Lady Susan’s unfortunate question” (December 5) I would add that the phrase “from whence” in the Book of Common...
...“To quote John Fowler, ‘All reds go together’; in this room, all oranges go together.”...
...King Edward VII is an old scented variety with good stems and scarlet flowers, available from Mr Fothergill’s with an RHS imprimatur....
...Another tip (via horticulturalist Alys Fowler) that I have never tried is to find a stem of watercress in a supermarket bag that has visible roots on it and place it in a glass of water until the roots grow...
...Once again, Edward Harpley comes up trumps with some spectacular things: sign me up immediately for the Prince of Wales, Emperor or Osterley!...
...John Fowler’s similar Venetian Stripe design was often used by him for blinds, and paired with magnificent sets of curtains....
...Look to Sibyl Colefax and John Fowler for a good selection of brackets. The company makes very charming and simple painted wooden versions with a trefoil-shaped top and scroll supports....
...This kind of mix is the essence of English country style — the look that was made popular by Colefax and Fowler from the 1930s....
...From Watergate’s Deep Throat to Edward Snowden, whistleblowers have almost always been cast as principled loners who felt compelled to stand against the crowd....
...In our sitting room in the Cotswolds, we have a card lampshade in a seaweed pattern from Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, another card one painted to look like faux tortoise-shell, a gathered shade made from...
...Only under questioning did Fletcher recall a facetious tweet she had sent as debate raged over the statue of slave trader Edward Colston, which was tipped into Bristol Harbour last year....
...The interior decorator Emma Burns of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler told House & Garden magazine that she likes a mix of fitted and freestanding shelving; and a library must be comfortable, with sofas, ottomans...
...Is she in a WhatsApp group with Edward Snowden and other famous whistleblowers? She cackles at this — mostly at the idea of trusting an app owned by Facebook. “I wish there was!...
...Sibyl Colefax and John Fowler’s Seaweed is a beauty. It is available in various colours as a wallpaper and a fabric. The pale-blue wallpaper would look fantastic in a seaside home....
...Sign up here with one click I like the look of Edward Bulmer’s Dutch Orange, which is an homage to the coral-pink paint colour often used by the British decorator John Fowler — a mid-20th century designer...
...He’s the real deal. paffronandscott.co.uk On my wishlist is a reprint, on hand screen-printed linen, of the Colefax and Fowler archive ribbons design print in Chintz, in blue....
...that the biggest challenge the Trust faces in the months ahead comes from another source entirely: those days in June when Black Lives Matter protests led to the toppling of a statue of the slave trader Edward...
...We arrive every weekend in a car groaning with goods: an armchair upholstered in a striped-green leopard-print fabric from Colefax & Fowler bought at auction for next to nothing; pairs of carved gilt wood...
...‘Once you speak up, life is never the same’ When Susan Fowler landed a job at Uber, then the hottest start-up in the US, she was excited....
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