The Last of Old England – Gretchen Andersen and Old Manor Farm
‘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 ... 
Beauty and Utility in Dorsetshire – Bonfield Block-Printers
This is Bonfield Block-Printers, the workshop and home of Janet Tristram and Cameron Short and family, in Thorncombe village, Dorset. They came here about 9 years ago - This is their story, ...
Morality, Architecture and Belief, Quinlan and Christine Terry at home and work in Suffolk
Quinlan Terry is a deeply serious proselytiser for classical architecture.His traditional practice - operating outside the mainstream architectural establishment - has gained him many plaudits and the occasional brickbat. Half-hidden by a ...
Viola Lanari, artist, home and studio – in her own words
'I came here in 2011. The flat was all white, I was a student, but I had people renting the spare room. I was trying to fill the void, buying things and hanging them everywhere.' ...
The Magpie Eye : Mark Hearld
Mark Hearld is the busy, polygamous artist and maker whom I've long wanted to meet. He has made multiple marriages, to print-making and collage, drawing and painting, lino-cutting, ceramics, wallpaper and textile design, cut-outs and ...
Gretchen Andersen, and her extraordinary Lacquer Chest of Treasures
At the Lacquer Chest, her fabled antiques shop in Kensington Church Street, Gretchen Andersen has a ringside seat from which to monitor and influence the shifting sands of our changing taste in things. When she ...
‘An agreeable house to live in’ : Wolfeton House near Dorchester.
Wolveton ( or Wolfeton) House stands in its little plot of green verdant land bordered by water meadows to the north-west of Dorchester, where trees and docks grow tall and small creeping flowers with ...
The Patinated Past: At Restoration House in Rochester
Jonathan Wilmot and Robert Tucker have lived in Rochester at Restoration House since 1994. Growing up in Australia, Robert Tucker had set his sights on seeing the world and becoming a writer. ‘In ...
Go Wild in the Country, Rusticating, with Luke Edward Hall
In 2019, artist-designers Luke Edward Hall and Duncan Campbell were looking for a place in the country, somewhere to plant a garden and have friends for the weekend. They found it here, at the ...
‘Framing is a language,’ A. Prin Art, Benedict Foley, Daniel Slowik and Cottagecore
A.Prin Art Studio: 'Framing is a language...' Benedict Foley and Daniel Slowik began renting Pink Cottage soon after they met, because their London place is in Hackney and East Anglia is a ...
