Going for gold… Next year we are celebrating our 60th year in business..our golden jubilee if you will. And to say we like a bit of gold in our furniture and accessories may be a bit of an understatement. Gold furniture has a warm, rich and bewitching effect. It draws in your eye and instantly […]
Tag: Furniture
Guinevere’s Guests; Chats With Tim Gosling
Tim has to be up there as one of the friendliest people in design. After 18 years as a director at Linley, he started his own eponymous studio in 2005 and quickly gained a reputation for creating the exquisite, turning his hand to both furniture design and interiors. After having recently started his own restoration […]
Our Not So Secret Garden
All in an English country garden…or a town courtyard, or any outdoor space really. The English have a long affiliation with their gardens; and love them or hate them most people it seems did something (or everything) to theirs during lockdown in this green and pleasant land. The history of gardens – though I am […]
Guineveres Guests; Chats with Olivia Outred
Named as House & Garden’s ‘Rising Star’ 20/21, Olivia Outred is known for her fresh and playful design style with a career that has progressed from strength to strength. In her early years she worked with iconic designers Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler and Soane Britain, before opening her own studio in 2014. We are […]
A Message From The Desk of Dean
Working from home is a little like spending a length of time with loved ones; although the idea initially seemed appealing, after a couple of days one does begin to become somewhat aware of the inadequacies of the situation. My “desk” at the moment is not the elegant Louis XV bureau plat I have at […]
The Line of Beauty
Jean, Pablo, Amedeo & Keith. Few things are more expressive than the simple line. A sweep or curve, an outline, a bold shape, these are the elements of visual language we all understand. In his Analysis of Beauty (1753) William Hogarth proposed a theory of aesthetics in which the term Line of Beauty was used […]
Marvellous Maison Jansen
The name “Jansen” identifies a century-long, global offering of decorating services that focused on both historical revivals and contemporary trends. Founded in 1880 by Jean Henri Jansen, the Paris based design and decorating firm Maison Jansen quickly established itself as one of the first truly International design firms. The decorating firm offered services that focused […]
Chinoiserie
Chinoiserie furniture seems to be having a resurgence of late and it isn’t hard to see why. Beautiful detailed lacquer work sits well in almost all houses, be they in the manner of Billy Baldwin with clean lines, classic furniture and a mix of styles, an all out Chinoiserie explosion, or indeed just a one […]
Eurantica
We decided that we would make a quick hop to Brussels on the day of the preview for Eurantica. This is a large antiques fair that is staged once a year and was previously held in Brussels in one of the beautiful halls of the Heysel exhibition park. This is conveniently located in Brussels itself […]
Arte Povera
Lacca Povera, perhaps more commonly known as Arte Povera; which literally translates to poor art, is as term which you might be surprised to find associated with some of the beautiful European furniture of the 19th and 20th Century, such as these Venetian Consoles from Newel, left, or our Italian Commodes right. Far from showing […]