bibleofbritishtaste.com
The Best Handmade Wallpaper in the world is by Marthe Armitage | Bible of British Taste
http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/the-best-hand-made-wallpaper-in-the-world-is-by-marthe-armitage
The Next Big Thing. The best hand-made wallpaper in the world is by Marthe Armitage. She cut her design into big blocks and printed it on rolls of lining paper, laid out on the floor. These blocks ‘last for ever,’ and she is still printing from them today. A hundred year old lithographic proofing press made things easier and the garage at the bottom of the garden became her studio. Even so, in the eighties and nineties she found herself thinking ‘but nobody wants them. ’. The Woman in Black. Such beautif...
bibleofbritishtaste.com
Culture and Folk | Bible of British Taste
http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/category/culture-and-folk
The Next Big Thing. New Years greetings from the bibleofbritishtaste 2015. Posted in: Culture and Folk. The Eynsham Morris, boy novices at the first stop on their local Boxing Day four-pub fixture. NB Green Man. Photo credit my sister Lizzie who was standing next to me. Thank you for subscribing. A new post from BOBT follows shortly. Posted in: Culture and Folk. I was always lucky with goldfish but rides on the merry-go-round were my personal ecstasy. The racing car drivers were painted by Edwin Hall for...
bibleofbritishtaste.com
John Martin Robinson, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary | Bible of British Taste
http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/john-martin-robinson-maltravers-herald-extraordinary
The Next Big Thing. John Martin Robinson, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary and architectural historian. This is the London dwelling of John Martin Robinson, aesthete, architectural historian and controversialist. He holds the offices of Maltravers Herald Extraordinary, Librarian to the Duke of Norfolk and Vice Chairman of the Georgian Group ( tho he has just resigned on a point of principle). He is also a regular contributor to. Grass Seed in June,. Here is the other end of the dining room, photographed i...
bibleofbritishtaste.com
Something for the weekend - Barbara Jones. | Bible of British Taste
http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/something-for-the-weekend-barbara-jones
The Next Big Thing. Something for the weekend – Barbara Jones. Posted in: Culture and Folk. The King Penguin Guide to the Isle of Wight. 8211; a place that I once commuted to each week – was the first book by Barbara Jones that I bought. One of her illustrations shows the Horn Room at Osborne House, with Prince Albert’s Teutonic antler furniture poised as if about to scuttle across the Brussels carpet. In its pages she showed me ‘all the qualities o’ the isle,’ like Caliban in The Tempest. I hung about i...
bibleofbritishtaste.com
Places | Bible of British Taste
http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/category/places
The Next Big Thing. In the North Kent Downs: the West Street Tickham’s last meet & Twentieth Century Castles. Hunt supporters don’t carry umbrellas. On March 16th under lead-grey skies and needle-sharp rain the West Street Tickham hunt met for the last time on the gravel in front of Doddington Place in Kent. Lachrymal weather and these rain-blotched pictures set the scene. Their ‘cracking’ Huntsman Paul Saunders was Whipper In for the East Sussex and Romney Marsh, before he joined them. At last the West ...
bibleofbritishtaste.com
In Somersetshire, kiln from John Piper, ceramics by Prue Piper. | Bible of British Taste
http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/prue-piper-2
The Next Big Thing. In Somersetshire, kiln from John Piper, ceramics by Prue Piper. His wife Janine who is also a ceramicist and their young children all live and work here. They are self-sufficient in sheep, wind-power and fruit and vegetables. This is a corner of Prue’s ceramics studio. Prue with her Mermaid jug. Corner of the kitchen-and-living room, note the two-tier ceramic snow drop ‘theatre’ by Prue on the table. Garden-gargolyle, Henry’s squirrel-proof bird feeder behind. A C17th carved wooden fi...
bibleofbritishtaste.com
Ian Archie Beck, Elton John and les Freres Perverts. | Bible of British Taste
http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/ian-archie-beck-elton-john-and-les-freres-pervertes
The Next Big Thing. Ian Archie Beck, Elton John and les Frères Perverts. A family of aesthetes live here, in Thames-side Isleworth to the west of London. These are some clues to their identity. The hanging mugs feature monochrome woodblock vignettes of the Dorset countryside by the artist, engraver and typographer Reynolds Stone. On the top row are Eric Ravilious’s Garden Implement mugs, designed for Wedgwood in its glory days. And above the book case a small leather suitcase is plastered with enigmatic ...
bibleofbritishtaste.com
The Englishman's Room, Gavin Stamp and Anti-Ugly. | Bible of British Taste
http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/the-englishmans-room-gavin-stamp-and-anti-ugly
The Next Big Thing. The Englishman’s Room, Gavin Stamp and Anti-Ugly. The architectural historian and writer Gavin Stamp. The Englishman’s Room. Three years ago we bought this standard Late Georgian Forth Rate terraced London house. Gavin Stamp wrote in 1980 in. The Englishman’s Room. This room remained undecorated as long as they lived there.]. I suppose I can imagine the buff cracked plaster looking rather Palladian and chic,. Along with Charles Moore and A.N. Wilson. The Young Fogey Handbook. 1985) by...
bibleofbritishtaste.com
Artists | Bible of British Taste
http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/category/artists
The Next Big Thing. Stone and shell in Somerset-shire: Belinda Eade. Flanking the chimney in Malplaquet House – the home of Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe Gowan – are shell candle sconces in the Baroque taste made by Belinda Eade almost 20 years ago. Belinda is also a stone carver ans sculptor, designer of gravestones and cutter of monumental letters. Belinda carving in a grotto that she designed and built in Spain. Her earliest grottoes were encrusted with limpets, clams, oysters, mussels, and cockles...
bibleofbritishtaste.com
The Next Big Thing | Bible of British Taste
http://www.bibleofbritishtaste.com/category/the-next-big-thing
The Next Big Thing. The Next Big Thing. Peepshow in London E2, Simon Costin’s Museum of British Folklore by Adam Richards Architects. Posted in: The Next Big Thing. At Unit 1, Cremer Business Centre, 37 Cremer Street http:/ 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. Behind peephole number 29 you will see ‘A short film of English Dance’ (the Morris). Punch puppet from the Museum of British...
