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The Book of Garden Flowers (Signed Edition)
Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating tales of nineteen cultivated flowers and their journeys from distant corners of the world to British gardens, illustrated by the painter and printmaker Angie Lewin in this charming companion guide.
Inside a Quaint Fishing Cottage in Northern Ireland Turned Creative Retreat
A famous beauty spot since the 19th century, the glacial fjord Carlingford Lough cutsdeep into the eastern coast of Ireland midway between Belfast and Dublin, marking the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. At its inner end is the village of Omeath. Here, overlooking the lough and the cloud-swept Mountains of Mourne, is what looks like a simple wood-planked fisherman's shack. Step inside, though, and you enter an entirely different world.
Step Inside This Colorful London Townhouse
London's riverside enclave of Chelsea has been a chic address since Oscar Wilde took up residence in 1884, but historically it was a poor working-class area, and despite the occasional mansion, most of its houses are rather modest in scale. Even so, this bijou property on one of the neighborhood’s swankiest streets, recently reconfigured by designer Bryan O’Sullivan, packs a lot into its narrow lot.
Studio Seilern Designs Ski-In/Ski-Out Restaurants in the Swiss Alps
The top of a 7,600-foot mountain in the Swiss Alps may not be the first place you’d expect to find a Michelin–starred Japanese restaurant. But it’s only the latest in a series of surprising developments that have been taking place over the last few years in a certain Urseren Valley village. The Japanese by the Chedi Andermatt restaurant is one of two eateries in the Gütsch-Express, a building by Studio Seilern Architects, which also recently completed the nearby Andermatt Concert Hall.
A Design Lover's Guide to London
Britain may be having a bumpy political ride right now, but London remains a great cultural capital, open to the world. And art lovers have ample new reason to go.
John Ruskin's Influence on Art and Architecture on View in London Show
This year marks the bicentenary of the birth of art critic John Ruskin, one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century and in many ways a role model for our own time. To celebrate the occasion, a major exhibition opens on January 26 in central London, in an extraordinary pied à terre once owned by William Waldorf Astor.
Horace Walpole's Treasures On View Outside London
The further reaches of suburban London are not, perhaps, where you’d expect to find one of the most influential buildings of the 18th century. But here, surrounded by identikit family homes from the 1930s, stands Strawberry Hill, the one-time country estate of Horace Walpole, who—among other things—pretty much single-handedly invented the Gothic Revival style.
Bask In Tania Compton's Breathtaking Gardens
As we squelch round her sodden six acres of garden, Lady Tania Compton exclaims, “I love being on clay!” Even though, I ask, it’s awash in winter, is backbreaking to dig, and, come summer, dries to the consistency of concrete? “Totally,” she says. “It’s wonderful!” She’s not joking. Compton—the most successful British landscape designer few have ever heard of—approaches her work with what can only be described as gusto, but that’s just the half of it.
See Gio Ponti's Early Works in This Classical French Villa
In a quiet, tree-lined street in a suburb of Paris, a gap in the hedge reveals the two pillars of a concrete gate and, beyond that, a shady drive. What you would never know is that at the end of this drive is one of the most significant houses of the 1920s. Even more intriguing, its designer was not French but Italian, and while he would go on to become world famous, this very private home is hardly known even among aficionados of his work.
See Why La Réserve Paris Is Adored by Top Travel Experts | Architectural Digest
Could La Réserve Paris be the perfect grand hotel? Smaller and less intimidating than the Ritz yet just as lavish, it’s superbly staffed and has a remarkably sylvan setting, despite being just off the Champs Elysées. With more suites than rooms (26 to 14) and an ideal location just yards from the presidential palace and midway between the Avenue Montaigne and the Rue du Faubourg St-Honoré, La Réserve belongs to Michel Reybier, a sausages-and-gasoline to hotel-and-wine magnate.
AD visits: Hal Messel | Architectural Digest
Though they’re easy to overlook and oddly uncelebrated beyond the poems of John Betjeman, nonconformist chapels are among the quieter delights of the English countryside. Restrained in style and modest in size, these buildings capture the alternatives to establishment Christianity that thrived in 18th- and 19th-century Britain. Today, thanks to declining congregations, many such mute memorials stand empty or have been converted for secular use.
The Best Books on Gardening
Before we talk about your five books, I would like to know a bit more about what first drew you into gardening. I have been at it a very long time. I started when I was about five years old. I had a grandfather who lived in Worcester and he was keen on gardening. In fact, I have got people on both sides who are very keen on gardening – cousins, second cousins, great aunts. Did you follow your grandfather about and watch him garden? Yes, I did.
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