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bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:29:49+01:00

‘Framing is a language,’ A. Prin Art, Benedict Foley, Daniel Slowik and Cottagecore

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:29:49+01:004th April 2021|3 Comments

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 ...

  • The story of how an old house in east London was saved from demolition and revived
bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:29:58+01:00

An Old House in Whitechapel, near Spitalfields, By Tim Whittaker

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:29:58+01:0010th March 2021|8 Comments

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 ...

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-18T17:13:13+01:00

Why we loved Laura Ashley, all over again.

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-18T17:13:13+01:007th February 2021|13 Comments

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 ...

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:30:21+01:00

Bridie Hall ‘At Home.’

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:30:21+01:0027th December 2020|14 Comments

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 ...

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:31:57+01:00

A Magpie’s Life, by Cath Kidson

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:31:57+01:0015th November 2020|11 Comments

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 ...

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:32:04+01:00

Recapturing the castle, Bernard Nevill, Eastnor and me, by Sarah Hervey-Bathurst.

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:32:04+01:0026th October 2020|6 Comments

‘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 ...

bibleofbritishtaste2022-10-09T21:41:15+01:00

Charleston Farmhouse needs you.

bibleofbritishtaste2022-10-09T21:41:15+01:0012th August 2020|8 Comments

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 ...

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:32:20+01:00

On drawing, painting pictures and designing a new wallpaper, by Marthe Armitage

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:32:20+01:0024th June 2020|15 Comments

"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 ...

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:32:27+01:00

The Pauper’s Cookbook and The Country Kitchen, china, compost heaps, cold frames & – country life by Jason Goodwin

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:32:27+01:0018th June 2020|9 Comments

Ever since I wrote Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, I’ve been brooding. On the face of it the Ottomans had precious little to shout about, though they ruled from the ...

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:32:34+01:00

On delighting in cracked, chipped, ‘Rescued’ things and coming back to her old family house in Scotland, by Domenica More Gordon

bibleofbritishtaste2022-04-08T09:32:34+01:007th June 2020|0 Comments

  It is an odd thing to find yourself living back in your childhood house at the age of 40 with your parents and your own young family and husband. Sometimes as I walk through ...

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