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Jane Hill at Shepherd’s Cottage: Every picture tells a story.

bibleofbritishtaste2023-12-13T11:30:08+00:0030th December 2022|15 Comments

Jane Hill has lived at Shepherd's Cottage for about 20 years now. Its unique, a seventeenth century backlands cottage just behind Highgate high street, once inhabited by a sheep drover who may have penned...

The Last of Old England – Gretchen Andersen and Old Manor Farm

bibleofbritishtaste2024-03-06T20:47:58+00:0024th June 2022|34 Comments

‘To start with this house had hardly any furniture. The men who moved us in were so shocked they left us the tea chests, so we used them for a year at least.’ This...

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bits of kitchens and dining rooms, ancient and mod

bits of kitchens and dining rooms, ancient and modern:1.David and Sue Gentleman’s original 50s kitchen in Camden Town , 2. @carlosgarciainteriors Norfolk farmhouse dresser and his Staffordshire chickens, 3. @a_h_dodd ‘s loaded kitchen dresser in Suffolk, 4. @isabelbannerman ‘s ‘Marie Antoinette’ kitchen sink, 5. Delftware and folk art @suffolk_home , 6. Great Hall dining room @isabelbannerman ‘s Somerset -shire manor house, 7. @jason.goodw1n ‘s kitchen, Kate’s teacups, 8. Some of Gretchen Andersen’s ceramic drainers on the wall in her ancient family house in Sussex

Manor Farnhouse, Gretchen Andersen’s other world

Manor Farnhouse, Gretchen Andersen’s other worldly country place. I liked the way she’d mixed up creamware on her bedroom shelves- a mid C20th Ravilious Gardening jug and another mug both by @vawedgwood , and original C18th transfer ware pieces. Her daughter @andersenemily_photography took the third photo there back in the day. It’s groovy. I seem to remember there was a modelling shoot going in then - aha, Emily says it was for Demob and the dress was by @richardostell - thank you @andersenemily_photography

… and the other side of the kitchen with Bunny,

… and the other side of the kitchen with Bunny, 15 year old Dartmoor lurcher, for scale. These are the ‘after’ photos, followed by ‘before.’ The original late C18th dresser had survived the bedsit era posing as bookshelves, the upper section must have been thrown out tho, and then remade in dark wood in about 1970, the drawer handles had gone to be thriftily replaced with modern brass effect curtain pole finials. I tried out repro C18th handles (too spindly) and then replaced with turned wood painted dark brown/black, and made a slatted rack below at floor level for cooking utensils and stacked china and stuff. The china on the dresser is mostly the remains of what was in my late mother in laws kitchen cupboards plus more that we bought on ebay, made by Wedgwood in the mid C20th era when her husband Norman Wilson helped to run the company and created and oversaw its designs. The Adam and Eve ceramic candlesticks were made by @tillywashpottery , the fat, blue cookery book is by family member @kitchenbee - The Secret of Cooking - Grated tomato and butter pasta sauce eg, its excellent🙂

Pinked up the kitchen a bit more… our basement w

Pinked up the kitchen a bit more… our basement was a bedsit before we came here complete with gas meters, cockroaches and damp navy blue carpet. There wasn’t much to save and a bit of faking needed (no chimneypiece left at all, it’s scaffolding planks and loosely based on the surviving one in the house next door - @reubarchi and @benpentreath gave much needed help and advice… I liked the ‘archaeological museum of social history’ kitchen that the builders left me with but not for ever… painted with ‘Fowler Pink’ originally a colour by @farrowandball as in ‘John Fowler’ but from the local paint shop as F & B have archived it. This colour over about 5 unsuccessful ones I mixed up myself. Wedgwood from the era of my late father in law Norman Wilson when he helped to run the company. @bridierhall &@pentreathandhall have commissioned similar Creamware pieces in Stoke on Trent now, including a lidded urn. Cheap sheet copper behind the Everhot, very utilitarian, very easy to do, a bit austere… I was reluctant to paint over the few bits of bare wood - it was a bit ogre-ish to live with longterm - but in some ways half-finished and unresolved always feels better? Bright green is @duluxuk trade paint no 65YY27444. P.S. the nearly new @everhot_cookers (not an Aga) came from Leslie on gumtree, she had it a year and didn’t like it, it cost about the same as my 13 year old skoda, should see us out and has been totally worth it

some very good bits and bobs…@bridierhall s hous

some very good bits and bobs…@bridierhall s house in London, full of her designs and design-inspiration - and the mass-produced faux ‘Wedgwood’ she rescued from style-oblivion; chez @nell_lyhne (painter, and once an architect) and the space-saving box-bed she made; Sue and David Gentleman’s superbly-austere original 60s kitchen in Camden Town; @mark_hearld s mantlepiece-magic in York; cinnamon paint and gold grotto chair on toast chez @lukeedwardhall and @jduncancampbell in verdant Gloucs; @a.prin.art of @nuthall.temple contemplates his garden; @a_h_dodd ‘s magic realism in his dressing room; @jasperconran - best bathroom EVER; AND kitchenalia on the grandest scale with @isabelbannerman and Julian (Mr. B) at lovely Ashington manor

Homage to Gretchen Andersen of the famous @lacquer

Homage to Gretchen Andersen of the famous @lacquerchest in Kensington Church Street - her place in the country where everything made your heart stop with covetous desire - she had a brilliant eye and everybody inc. D. Hockney, L.Freud and Elizabeth David shopped with her and wanted to hang around in her shop - I was fond of her and she was a wonderful, inspirational, indefatigable talker. She was very good at paint colours too

Sortings and miscellanea… toile-fabric walls by

Sortings and miscellanea… toile-fabric walls by @moore.christopher at home with @jessicahayns , Palladian kitchen by @plainenglishdesign chez @lukeedwardhall & @jduncancampbell , @amanda.feilding’s little sitting room @beckleyresearch , Scottish entrance hall @domenicamoregordon , @belindaeade s shell looking glass in my favourite guest bedroom, another bedroom and Jacobean joinery @wivetonhall , @smedmorehouse , Gervase Jackson-Stops’s pink for plates, @a_h_dodd ‘s magic tree, the medieval tiles at Shulbrede and the gardens

More outtakes … the Bannermans @isabelbannerman

More outtakes … the Bannermans @isabelbannerman dining in the great hall at Ashington, the house they rescued from C20th depredations, Malplaquet in London’s East End, saved by @spitalfields_trust , Kate’s prodigious teacup collection @jason.goodw1n , @jasperconran ‘s glorious scullery, the priory wall, Kate’s teacups a wider shot, best bedroom @restorationhouserochester, followed by the ‘home office,’ @will_palin ‘s rescue dog - and the priory again

annual solstice sprout fight at the Admiral Benbow

annual solstice sprout fight at the Admiral Benbow @thebenbowpz

Min Hogg, lest we forget

Min Hogg, lest we forget

Cutting room floor stuff, but too lovely to leave

Cutting room floor stuff, but too lovely to leave out -
for a book

Out takes from the story ‘This World of Interior

Out takes from the story ‘This World of Interiors’ by @jessicahayns , for 30 years Creative Director @theworldofinteriors . Her house in south London, one of our ‘house’ stories in @bibleofbritishtaste magazine.no.3, just published: ‘Do you believe that objects can have a soul?’ she writes… ‘Or maybe they carry the soul of the people sho once cherished them?’
Read the full story in bobt/3, autumn/winter 2024

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