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 In the 70s this young company was o...
https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/why-we-loved-laura-ashley-all-over-again
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. Profe...
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 b...
https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/humble-elegance-john-fowlers-creative-response-to-troubled-times
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 grandmothe...
https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/s-j-whiteworks-design-heroes-cecil-beaton-j-e-t-and-marthe-armitage
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 Ar...
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 doin...
'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...
https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/the-hounds-of-spring-are-on-winters-traces
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 ...
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 ...
https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/the-national-collection-of-dahlias
Black Barbour jackets are on trend in Cobham, Crouch End and the Cotswolds. That's why you should stick to your old green one.