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1 week ago |
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
The walls, bedcover and bed canopy in this 19th-century chateau in the Périgord are in Christopher Moore’s ‘Fragonard’ in heather. Boz GagovskiThe story of toile de Jouy fabric starts in 18th-century France, in the town of Jouy-en-Josas. At the height of Europe's obsession with Indian cotton (which saw the fabric banned for a time by both the French and English governments) the German-born Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf set up a factory near the Bièvre river.
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2 weeks ago |
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
Who doesn't want to be on holiday all the time, with a warm breeze, airy interiors and constant sunshine? Unfortunately, life doesn't quite allow for that but what you can do is recreate some of those classic, stylish holiday home decorating tropes in your own house to live out an endless summer. The trick is to pinpoint some key elements that define the decoration of the holiday house.
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3 weeks ago |
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
RHSIn just over a month, Chelsea Flower Show is set to take over the capital once more and there's a particularly exciting first time exhibitor: gardening legend Monty Don. Monty is no stranger to the Chelsea crowd, of course, and is usually found at the show giving commentary or taking part in television filming, but this will be the first time he's there showing a garden of his own.
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3 weeks ago |
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
Neisha Crossland's kitchen in LondonJames McDonaldA gallery kitchen, also called a Frankfurt kitchen (named for the city in which it was first designed by the historic female architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky) is first and foremost a utilitarian space which makes the most of pokey rooms and (hopefully) high ceilings.
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3 weeks ago |
houseandgarden.co.uk | Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes
The platonic ideal of a house in the Cotswolds surely lies in the Laurie Lee valley, where the undulating hill slope into the green valley and the views and countryside are impossible to beat. With Slad as the main village in the area, it also feels more authentic than neighbouring villages, less ‘honey-hued perfection’ and more country life as you'd expect to find it.
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