Derek Frost

We started in London Kensington Palace Then down to our home in Hampshire alongside the sea and the river Some weeks later we set off in an easterly direction on a road trip through our glorious English countryside First we visited the garden at Exbury Then we drove across Sussex To the garden at Charleston Then north to Northamptonshire On to Cambridgeshire and Clare College, Cambridge To Staffordshire To Gloucestershire To Bowood House, Wiltshire On across Wiltshire To Dorset Following...

AT HOME ON BOARD IN MALTA In the mid 1990’s, shortly before closing my interior design business, I was invited to work with a brilliant team of naval architects and related specialists on the construction, in Thailand, of a technically ground breaking 40 metre sloop called Philanderer. The addition of this project to my design portfolio awarded me the opportunity to work on a second nautical design project, one that continues to this day.

The Aeolian Islands, named after Aeolus the ancient Greek God of the Wind, is one of our favourite ‘on board’ destinations. They comprise a chain of volcanic islands lying between 30 to 80 kilometres north of Sicily in the lapis blue waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The island group includes seven inhabited islands - Vulcano, Lipari, Salina, Filicudi, Alicudi, Panarea and Stromboli. The volcanoes on Vulcano and Stromboli remain active.