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...
An Old House in Whitechapel, near Spitalfields, By Tim Whittaker
The story of how an old house in East London was saved from demolition and revived I have spent most of my adult life fighting developers – their destructive avarice, their desire to clear...
Why we loved Laura Ashley, all over again.
Laura Ashley had begun to print textiles in 1953 but her fashion label really took off in the 70s... A couple of years ago we all started wanting it again [this image copyright Jane...
Bridie Hall ‘At Home.’
Bridie Hall, artist-designer and co-founder of the amazing shop and homestore, Pentreath and Hall, was born in New Zealand and ran away to seek her fortune in London twenty years ago, on finishing art...
A Magpie’s Life, by Cath Kidson
I have always been an inveterate collector of stuff. I reckon it started when I was a small child with a trip to the white elephant stall at our local fete. I’d won the prize...
Recapturing the castle, Bernard Nevill, Eastnor and me, by Sarah Hervey-Bathurst.
‘Have you lifted your leg on the place?’ The question erupts from my portly and moustachioed neighbour at a dinner given for members of the Historic Houses Association. I have barely been introduced to Sir...
Charleston Farmhouse needs you.
The French call the little, personal and inconsequential anecdotes that are most revealing of life, les petites histoires. Charleston Farmhouse is full of them, signposts and memoranda of the lives of the illustrious, clever Bloomsbury...
On drawing, painting pictures and designing a new wallpaper, by Marthe Armitage
"I am an aged artist still working - just. My tubes of paint had been left un opened and ignored following a year of unhealth and it seemed to me that the muse had departed...
