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Out of the woods for a Modern celebration
Decoration and Design - 02 February 2004
Showhome is a Dulwich-based company run by ex-fashion journalist Lucy Ryder Richardson and ex-graphic designer Petra Curtis, who, frustrated by not being able to find the kind of 20th century and contemporary furniture and
artefacts they liked locally, formed a sourcing and selling business.
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The craft of the here and now
Decoration and Design - 02 February 2004
There is an impressively international roll-call of galleries exhibiting at Collect, the new fair for contemporary objects which takes place at the Victoria & Albert Museum from February 20-24.
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Jim Partridge’s Springboard in blackened oak measuring 81/4in x 11 x 191/2in (21 x 28 x 50cm) will be shown by the Scottish Gallery at the Collect fair at the V&A next month.
De Morgan out of storage
Decoration and Design - 02 February 2004
Whether your penchant is for Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco or later 20th century design, and whether you are looking for examples in ceramic, glass, metallic, furnishing or sculptural form, Sotheby’s Olympia’s first Decorative Arts sale of 2004 promises its usual broad mix.
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Ski posters to give your walls a lift
Decoration and Design - 02 February 2004
POSTERS provide instant wall power to any interior, and carefully chosen they can prove a most effective (and cost-effective) device in any decorating scheme. Look out for two interesting poster auctions next month on either side of the Atlantic.
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The turn of the tables
Decoration and Design - 09 October 2003
According to Themes & Variations, the West London dealers in 20th century decorative arts and contemporary design, for the past three decades minimalism has developed alongside a taste for baroque extravagance, but without converging.
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The Max factor
Decoration and Design - 09 October 2003
HAVING run antique furniture businesses in Hampshire and the Midlands, Max Salisbury upped sticks two years ago to make his fortune in North Carolina. Looking at events in America over the past two years his timing could not have been worse, but now he has successfully established a business at 1102 North Main Street, High Point (Tel: +1 336 883 1494) where he displays his speciality – expertly
re-upholstered 19th century English furniture in “natural and uncluttered” room settings.
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Blass this house…
Decoration and Design - 09 October 2003
Bill Blass was a catwalk king, now his furnishings are set to wow the crowds: Designer Bill Blass, whose elegant outfits have been a favourite amongst the well dressed for decades, came fairly late to serious antique buying, but once the well known fashion icon started collecting in the 1970s, he made up for lost time.
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The interior of Bill Blass’s elegant Manhattan apartment.
There is Encoignure in a foreign field…
Decoration and Design - 09 October 2003
Encoignure, Thomas Kerr’s long-established King’s Road shop, with its decorative Continental look, is a well-known call for British and overseas decorators on the hunt for a stylish something for their customers.
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Schotten gunning for the country set
Decoration and Design - 09 October 2003
WHEN it comes to the traditional English country house nothing is more redolent of the look of the Victorian and Edwardian periods than the old tack and gun rooms of the country lodge, replete with saddles, whips, boots and mounted trophies such as perch and stag.
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Designing on the plus side
Decoration and Design - 27 August 2003
AN INTERESTING and historic show is coming up at London’s Plus One Plus Two Galleries, 161-163 Seymour Place, W1, from October 8 to November 1 when Classic Romantic Modern combines work from the 1930s designer Jean-Michel Frank with the accomplished contemporary architectural artist Carl Laubin.
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