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 Ashley... 
Seaweed, Smoking and Scale, the Importance Of : Molly Alexander remembers her great aunt, Min Hogg.
Feted as the inventor-founder-editor of The World of Interiors magazine, in later life Min Hogg reinvented herself as the proud designer of an exquisite range of seaweed pattern wallpapers. Professionally she was often fierce, but her...
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...
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 Joan...
Peepshow in London E2, Simon Costin’s Museum of British Folklore by Adam Richards Architects.
At Unit 1, Cremer Business Centre, 37 Cremer Street https://architecturediary.org/london/events/4970 there's a peepshow that you can visit for the RIBA London Open Studios / London Festival of Architecture this weekend. Peepholes set at intervals up...
London Calling.
My friends Bridie Hall and Ben Pentreath are a decorative artist and an architect, both designers and interior designers who also keep an excellent shop, Pentreath and Hall. This week we are doing something together. It's...
The hounds of spring.
'When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces...'Atalanta in Calydon, by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Photography by Liz Neville, www.lizneville.com/ model, Flora Neville, grateful thanks to both. vintage tweed coat by Aquascutum. shot on location in...
A.N. Wilson’s Wedgwood.
A.N.Wilson writes: I grew up in North Staffordshire, where my forebears had been potters since the end of the eighteenth century. My brother Stephen and I sometimes look at our hands and think - we are...
The National Collection of dahlias.
Winter is icumen in fast, now, over the dahlia meadow at Varfell Farm, where they keep the national collection, blackening the edges of leaves and petals. Over 275 miles off from London, it is a comparatively...
Barbour – Green is the colour.
Black Barbour jackets are on trend in Cobham, Crouch End and the Cotswolds. That's why you should stick to your old green one. [All images : copyright bibleofbritishtaste.com ]
Buck the Trend. Epitaph added, December 2014.
- and live happily ever after the end. [All images : copyright bibleofbritishtaste.com ] Epitaph for a lovely house, a work of genius that was also...
