Humble Elegance: John Fowler’s creative response to troubled times, by Daniel Pieckielon Slowik
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 Whitework’s Design Heroes: Cecil Beaton, J.E.T. and Marthe Armitage.
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...
By Ben Pentreath: A Month in the Country and the Story of Parsonage Pink
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...
the bobt: a trip to the archives
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...
I am a painter and I paint every day: Romi Behrens at Prussia Cove
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...
Peter Hone, Master-Plaster-Caster.
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.
Old Albion, Ben Pentreath, Charlie McCormick and their Old Parsonage.
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...
Trereife House in West Cornwall, Lost Land of Lyonesse.
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...
Min Hogg’s World of Interiors: Seaweed wallpaper.
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...
Alan Powers on Enid Marx (& the bobt on ‘lost’ 30s artist Suzanne Cooper).
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...
