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 is ... 
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 collecting, ...
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 school. ...
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 for ...
Gavin Houghton, On Wallpaper, The World of Interiors, Painted Floors, Jack Russells – and Darren.
I found my house in Stockwell 20 years ago. It’s an early Victoria terraced house second from the end, with steps up to the apple green front door and a ground floor bay window on metal ...
On Moving House (for the Fourth Time) to half an Elizabethan House with a ‘Jennifer Archer ‘ Kitchen – and hanging sill-length curtains…By Isabel Bannerman.
The bibleobritishtaste has asked what it is that one does turning to a new place and re-using all the leftovers for the fourth time in a lifetime . I would like to point out as ...
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 Panama ...
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 London ...
David Bridgwater, his curious world.
David Bridgwater wrote to me a few weeks ago. He had read the art book that I published with Yale, Owning the Past, about the English collectors who scoured Italy, Greece and Turkey for antique sculptures ...
Blackpool Illuminations For Sale.
This enormous, circa 4 foot high Peacock head which lit up the sky on the Blackpool seafront for many years is now for sale with Malcolm Glickstein at : Relic Antiques, 133-135, Pancras Road, London, NW1 ...
Dr. Feelgood theme birthday cake, tablecloth by David Hockney.
Plate by Wedgwood, from a dinner service made for His Majesty Farouk I, by the Grace of God, King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, of Kordofan and of Darfur 'Summer Sky' ...
Huntin’ table.
Bombadier beer by Wells and Young at the Eagle Brewery Bedford and 20 Woodbines. [All images : copyright bibleofbritishtaste.com ]
