Tag: Vintage

Guinevere’s Guest; Chats with Saskia Blyth

This month we are excited to be chatting to Saskia from Blyth Collinson Interiors. Saskia has 20 years design experience under her belt, designing for exclusive residences for the discerning and discreet the world over. Every job approached with boundless enthusiasm, which translates perfectly into her elegant and fun interiors, filled with colour and intrigue […]

Guinevere’s Guests; Chats with Patrick Mele

Patrick Mele, a designer with a unique approach. Combining the best of the past and present to create visually stimulating and timelessly intriguing and elegant interiors. Not shy when adding a pop of colour or pattern, his interiors are anything but dull. For this month’s Guinevere’s Guests, Patrick chooses his five favourite items from Guinevere […]

Guinevere’s Guests; Chats with Alidad

Widely acclaimed for his opulent and richly layered interiors, Alidad continually delights clients; creating rooms that appear to have developed over generations. With over thirty years experience, he has been featured numerous times in Architectural Digest’s AD100, Elle Decor’s A-List, and House & Garden’s Top 100 Interior Designers. This month for Guinevere’s Guests, Alidad lends […]

Paul Daxhelet

When Marc and Heather finally managed to visit an old friend last year (between lockdowns!) – a retired Art and Antiques dealer in Paris – they did not expect to come across a collection of Belgian artworks they had never seen before in their years of travelling around Europe. They certainly did not expect to […]

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 […]

Restoration: Bringing Antiques Back to Life: Part 1

I won’t bore you with a lengthy rant on the distinction between restoration and conservation, suffice to say there is one. So if you were to approach anyone involved in the conservation of items and suggest that what they do is’restoration’, well…you have been warned! To restore an object is to add back a bit […]

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 […]

Dhurries; What, Where, How?

“The charm of the dhurrie lies in its simple treatment of the decorative details, and the principles of symmetry repetition” Dhurries are functional, decorative and extremely durable. These cotton rugs are made by weaving horizontal and vertical threads. In the C19th Dhurrie manufacturing entered a new phase, which led to several exhibitions of dhurries in […]

Bohemian Glass

Bohemian glass, or Bohemia crystal is glass produced in the regions of Bohemia and Silesia (now the Czech Republic). For centuries it has been internationally recognised for its high quality, craftsmanship, and innovative designs and is highly collectable. The main fashion for colours came in the 1830’s glass was then coloured by layering or by […]