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...Serblin’s son-in-law now runs the Italian workshop that bears his name, developing new products inspired by ideas contained within those sketches....
...Now based in Warsaw, she likens her “functional objects” — such as solid beam-shaped mirrors in honey-coloured red oak and sycamore — to “meteorites that fell to earth suddenly and without justification”...
...The accompanying Founding Collection depicts the regal oak leaf, sinuous fern, cherry blossom, buttercup and cobnut....
...You see here how Prout’s limpid precision shaped his own architectural sketches, recording his travels in France, Switzerland and Italy....
...“Frederiksborg Castle in the Evening Light”, his peak of nationalist romantic fervour, shifts between solid assertion, twilight introspection and a shiver of instability in the red fortress’s trembling watery...
...“These two are all right,” he says, giving one of the screeching animals a playful but solid nudge to the muzzle. “But those other two, we just don’t go near them.”...
...The simple, backlit “A Tree” (1816) by Corot’s teacher Achille-Etna Michallon contrasts an old hollow oak trunk with young branches and leaves....
...They had been constructed in solid oak by a master cabinetmaker. If the beehives were to be a distinctive feature of the garden, then a bee-friendly choice of planting naturally followed....
...“Commissioning a bespoke, hand-painted floor is a way of putting a very personal, unique stamp on your property,” says Liam Hennessy, managing director of Ebony & Co, a specialist in hand-crafted, solid...
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