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News From Nowhere: Stourhead for Man and Beast
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Stourhead for Man and Beast. There is a moment on the Stourhead estate, post-visitor centre, pre-ticket kiosk, when you find yourself walking along a lower road, steep bank either side, bridge overhead. On your right are some pretty little houses and on the left an august inn. It's a picturesque setting. As with so many National Trust properties a suspension of disbelief takes place, at around this moment. Is this place for real? Richard Wheeler, who spoke at the Garden Museum. Keeping people out became ...
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News From Nowhere: April 2014
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The Garden Museum in London was host to a 'fashion panel' the other night which was impossible to resist: Amanda Harlech (muse); Sam McKnight (legendary hairdresser) and Tim Walker (fantastical photographer). There was also an erudite professor of fashion from Central St Martins called Alistair O'Neill. There's something about the decaying of flowers that I find most interesting of all.". Fawn-like Tim Walker started off by showing us a photograph that had been formative for him, from the book Appearances.
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News From Nowhere: It Plants: World's Best List
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It Plants: World's Best List. On writing about Derry Watkins and the experience that is Special Plants. Near Bath recently, I mentioned in passing that she has a floral crystal ball. Seek her and your garden will be hot. The same could be said for Chris Marchant, the fragrant soothsayer from Orchard Dene. But you have to be 'in the trade' to access her wisdom. I didn't get round to talking about many plants (in the aforementioned post. Dark red and fringed, was pushed into the limelight by Tom Stuart-Smi...
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News From Nowhere: On Living —With Taste
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On Living —With Taste. The thing about good designers is: they are just trying to make sense of space. There is a logic. Touring around the garden of an interior designer is an exercise in strict visual hierarchy. When the drawing room is configured, it is inconceivable that the view just outside should not be given lengthy consideration as well. This is certainly the case at The Grove, the garden designed by the late David Hicks, society decorator and taste polemicist. Is it the title? On visiting The G...
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News From Nowhere: Bruce Weber's Porkies
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The Garden Museum in London was host to a 'fashion panel' the other night which was impossible to resist: Amanda Harlech (muse); Sam McKnight (legendary hairdresser) and Tim Walker (fantastical photographer). There was also an erudite professor of fashion from Central St Martins called Alistair O'Neill. There's something about the decaying of flowers that I find most interesting of all.". Fawn-like Tim Walker started off by showing us a photograph that had been formative for him, from the book Appearances.
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News From Nowhere: February 2014
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On Living —With Taste. The thing about good designers is: they are just trying to make sense of space. There is a logic. Touring around the garden of an interior designer is an exercise in strict visual hierarchy. When the drawing room is configured, it is inconceivable that the view just outside should not be given lengthy consideration as well. This is certainly the case at The Grove, the garden designed by the late David Hicks, society decorator and taste polemicist. Is it the title? On visiting The G...
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News From Nowhere: May 2013
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The Last Word on Slugs and Snails. Ever. Questions from the audience inevitably focused on Monty and had nothing to do with the guest whom he was interviewing. What do you think of the Chelsea judging row? What row. Would you like to know about my vegetable company? No I would not. What about slugs, Monty? I've never been anywhere without someone asking me about slugs," said Monty, not without humour. But the question did not go away. What about Lucy, what does she do about slugs, he asked? In Hastings, ...
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News From Nowhere: Does Your Role Have a Goal
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Does Your Role Have a Goal. When I was a young thing my boss took me to the Groucho Club and asked me about my five year plan. Huh? Where did I want to be in five years. Did I want her job, or what? It was a very nice lunch but I didn't know what she was talking about. The winsome voice of Chris Beardshaw talks you through the Future Fund in this short film. Towards the end of the rhyming pentameters (yes it's a poem) you'll want to catch the lines about "goals" and "roles". It could be life-changing.
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News From Nowhere: August 2013
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It Plants: World's Best List. On writing about Derry Watkins and the experience that is Special Plants. Near Bath recently, I mentioned in passing that she has a floral crystal ball. Seek her and your garden will be hot. The same could be said for Chris Marchant, the fragrant soothsayer from Orchard Dene. But you have to be 'in the trade' to access her wisdom. I didn't get round to talking about many plants (in the aforementioned post. Dark red and fringed, was pushed into the limelight by Tom Stuart-Smi...
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News From Nowhere: May 2014
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At 7 o'clock on a clear morning in May, gardens look pretty good. Inside the Royal Hospital grounds, the finest show gardens on offer are quietly shimmering at the Chelsea Flower Show. With pale sunshine and hardly anyone around, they will never look better than this, in their moment of judgement. 8220;Look at the back of this garden,” said my other companion. “Then look next door.”. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). WE ARE ALSO A SHOP. Alys Fowler uses her Ancient Industries Cloches. VISIT our ONLINE UK SHOP.
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