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bibleofbritishtaste2024-03-06T20:21:57+00:00

Humble Elegance: John Fowler’s creative response to troubled times, by Daniel Pieckielon Slowik

bibleofbritishtaste2024-03-06T20:21:57+00:0026th April 2020|17 Comments

Arriving one Easter at Veere Grenney's scintillating house in Tangier, Gazebo, I was curious to know who the other guests were. A bedroom door was flung open and Daniel Slowik appeared, smiling beautifully beneath a...

  • S J Whiteworks's Design Heroes: Cecil Beaton, J.E.T. and Marthe Armitage.
bibleofbritishtaste2020-04-26T19:11:12+01:00

S J Whitework’s Design Heroes: Cecil Beaton, J.E.T. and Marthe Armitage.

bibleofbritishtaste2020-04-26T19:11:12+01:0024th April 2020|5 Comments

I started trailing the designer Susanna White because of a lamp shade. It was a tall cone printed with 'Hunters,' the dashing repeat design of a man and woman on horseback drawn by her grandmother...

bibleofbritishtaste2020-04-26T19:12:25+01:00

By Ben Pentreath: A Month in the Country and the Story of Parsonage Pink

bibleofbritishtaste2020-04-26T19:12:25+01:0019th April 2020|26 Comments

It’s four weeks now since we’ve been here, down in Dorset. I’d say a couple of weeks ago the house got very tidy indeed. Everyone in the country, housebound and feeling helpless, went on a...

bibleofbritishtaste2022-10-30T18:36:49+00:00

the bobt: a trip to the archives

bibleofbritishtaste2022-10-30T18:36:49+00:008th April 2020|7 Comments

To mark April's Renaissance, the bibleofbritishtaste presents new stories and themes. Some are being commissioned from generous and talented friends. But these are not them. Today's story is an amuse gueule from its archives of...

  • Romi Behrens at Prussia Cove
bibleofbritishtaste2020-06-02T22:51:23+01:00

I am a painter and I paint every day: Romi Behrens at Prussia Cove

bibleofbritishtaste2020-06-02T22:51:23+01:0017th December 2019|14 Comments

Romi Behrens, b.1939, who lived at Prussia Cove in West Cornwall, belonged to no school of art and received no formal painting tuition Romi grew up, very happily, riding donkeys, in the idyllic surroundings...

bibleofbritishtaste2024-03-06T20:21:18+00:00

Peter Hone, Master-Plaster-Caster.

bibleofbritishtaste2024-03-06T20:21:18+00:006th January 2019|23 Comments

Peter is a Master-Plaster-Caster, the only one of his kind. Now he does bespoke commissions and sells some more via Pentreath and Hall's Rugby Street shop.

bibleofbritishtaste2024-03-06T20:03:14+00:00

Old Albion, Ben Pentreath, Charlie McCormick and their Old Parsonage.

bibleofbritishtaste2024-03-06T20:03:14+00:0014th October 2018|22 Comments

As some of you will know, architect and designer Ben Pentreath and plantsman, florist and collector Charlie McCormick live for most of the time in a small hamlet in West Dorset, although they have a...

bibleofbritishtaste2020-05-03T16:01:39+01:00

Trereife House in West Cornwall, Lost Land of Lyonesse.

bibleofbritishtaste2020-05-03T16:01:39+01:002nd September 2018|11 Comments

They rebuilt the 'new' house at Trereife in 1710, on and around the older one, as has so often been the case. There's a back drive with high stone gate posts and rhododendrons and this...

bibleofbritishtaste2020-05-03T16:03:17+01:00

Min Hogg’s World of Interiors: Seaweed wallpaper.

bibleofbritishtaste2020-05-03T16:03:17+01:0024th June 2018|8 Comments

Min Hogg lives round the corner from the V and A and the Brompton Oratory. She is the creator and founding editor of the World of Interiors magazine, generally considered to be outstanding...

bibleofbritishtaste2019-06-20T14:29:55+01:00

Alan Powers on Enid Marx (& the bobt on ‘lost’ 30s artist Suzanne Cooper).

bibleofbritishtaste2019-06-20T14:29:55+01:003rd June 2018|4 Comments

Alan Powers moved into this flat-fronted terraced house of London stock brick 35 years ago. He was a youthful painter manque who has instead become a historian of twentieth century art and architecture, the...

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