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Mad about Interiors: September 2015
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Share my madness about interiors, my passion for historic images, designs, pelmets, valances, beds and curtains, swags and tails and all those wonderful things that today's taste has sadly forgotten about. Friday, 18 September 2015. One of my all time favourite rooms is the drawing room at Hambleden Manor. If you missed my raving about it (and my sadness about its recent demise) read about it here. I'm glad I have a reason to use this image again: it shows the subject of this post. the chandelier. Howeve...
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Mad about Interiors: December 2013
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Share my madness about interiors, my passion for historic images, designs, pelmets, valances, beds and curtains, swags and tails and all those wonderful things that today's taste has sadly forgotten about. Tuesday, 17 December 2013. Hotel style' . or is it. Although it has been a while, today only a quick post, as my books are still packed away and I've got 3 boxes of Christmas decorations to empty. Runs in front of the curtain track, thus forming a kind of pelmet box. Last week I visited the Rijksmuseum...
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L’Oreal employee volunteers – making a difference locally in Hammersmith | Healthy Planet Blog
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Be a part of it. L’Oreal employee volunteers making a difference locally in Hammersmith. First we welcomed a team to our Head Office to discuss some ideas around marketing Books for Free. One of the ideas that came from that session was to run an internal campaign at L’Oreal to encourage each of the 600 staff to donate a book, plus create a case study / toolkit so that other businesses could run a similar campaign. This day also saw an enthusiastic team visit our HQ to discuss advertising the new centre,...
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Kilkenny « The Irish Aesthete
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This is not an Oxymoron. It is an architectural conundrum, one the present owners, who have already undertaken a considerable amount of essential remedial work and intend to undertake more, would wish to resolve. Their public spiritedness in ensuring the building has a future needs to be matched by discovering more about its past. At the Close of the Day. Irish Person of Note. Irish Person of Note. The Secret of Kells. Century Prior’s Tower to the immediate east: this has been extensively reconstructed a...
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A Swagger of Garlands « The Irish Aesthete
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This is not an Oxymoron. A Swagger of Garlands. This entry was posted in Architectural History. And tagged County Cork. A Memorial to Lost Love. The Secret of Kells →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. Irish Person of Note.
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Cork « The Irish Aesthete
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This is not an Oxymoron. Vernon Mount, County Cork has been discussed in detail here before (see Mounting Concern. Waiting in the Wings. End of the Road. The former Franciscan friary at Kilcrea, County Cork has been discussed here before (see. November 2nd 2015). Not far away is a five storey tower house completed around 1465 by Cormac Láidir Mór, Lord of Muskerry then-head of the McCarthy clan. As Coyne and Wills wrote in. The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. Irish Person of Note. Diary of an Aesthete.
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Irish Monastery « The Irish Aesthete
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This is not an Oxymoron. Category Archives: Irish Monastery. Dubhthach ua dubhthaigh abb Conga decc. 8220;Duffagh O Duffy, Abbot of Cong, died”.’. From Sir William Wilde’s. Lough Corrib, Its Shores and Islands. First published in 1867. The Secret of Kells. Century, presumably in response to increasing lawlessness in the area. Known as Burgess Court, this section was once thought to have contained a mediaeval lay settlement but that does not appear to have been the case. More likely it was used to...Visit...
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Kildare « The Irish Aesthete
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This is not an Oxymoron. The Speaker and His Wife. In August 1736 the. Irish Person of Note. Outstanding in its Field. A Classic of the Middle Size. From the Same Hand. During this post-festive season, when evenings can seem especially long and monotonous, readers might like to consider occupying their time with the creation of a print room. This once-fashionable pursuit, which had its heyday in the second half of the 18. Irish Person of Note. Diary of an Aesthete. Wide and Convenient Streets. Wide and C...
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Newton’s genuine gravity tree | View from my attic
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View from my attic. A Short History of Powis Castle. Belton’s beautiful beds →. Newton’s genuine gravity tree. July 23, 2015. The other week I had a lovely day out with my friends Kerry and Dave and as we like to do, we decided to visit some National Trust properties! The tree is indeed the same tree (told you so! It was partially destroyed but the roots remained and the tree grew up again, so that is why it’s not as tall as I imagined, but still the genuine article. It is a lovely house, very simple in ...
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Ellen-Scarlett | View from my attic
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View from my attic. A Short History of Powis Castle. It takes a village. August 11, 2016. New Blog Post Alert! Click the link to read my new blog post. About visiting Lacock, the National Trust village! Tagged Abbey to home to historic house. Coughton Court, a patchwork property. June 28, 2016. New Blog Post Alert! Follow the link to read my new blog post. Mary Queen of Scotts. June 20, 2016. Recently my mum (who runs the wonderful blog stitchesoftime.com. Via Sunshine and gold Stitches of Time. Tagged D...