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Spending time at home naturally leads to curiosity about one’s immediate surroundings, including local birdlife – here’s how to sate your interest
Essential equipment: guide (book, app, website, or household member) to help identify birds, sense of humour.
Non-essential equipment: binoculars, notebook, sense of adventure.
Continue reading...Spending time at home naturally leads to curiosity about one’s immediate surroundings, including local birdlife – here’s how to sate your interest
Essential equipment: guide (book, app, website, or household member) to help identify birds, sense of humour.
Non-essential equipment: binoculars, notebook, sense of adventure.
Continue reading...Are you finding it impossible to ignore tired paint? Revive your house with colours that will bring cheer and relaxation
It’s hard, stuck inside for weeks on end, not to notice how much your four walls could do with some paint – if, like me, you haven’t had them done for a while. To be honest, it’s been troubling me for ages – lockdown has just made it worse. As long ago as February I’d wandered into a Farrow & Ball shop wanting advice for my daughter’s small bedroom. It was still decorated for a young child, but she’s 16 now and she yearned for something more grown-up – a calming escape where she could study and relax with friends. And I spied on a Farrow & Ball noticeboard an advertisement for their colour consultancy service.
Colour curator Joa Studholme has worked at Farrow & Ball for 24 years, inventing colours that have become legendary among decorators, including the charming Nancy’s Blushes, named after her daughter’s pink cheeks.
Continue reading...Are you finding it impossible to ignore tired paint? Revive your house with colours that will bring cheer and relaxation
It’s hard, stuck inside for weeks on end, not to notice how much your four walls could do with some paint – if, like me, you haven’t had them done for a while. To be honest, it’s been troubling me for ages – lockdown has just made it worse. As long ago as February I’d wandered into a Farrow & Ball shop wanting advice for my daughter’s small bedroom. It was still decorated for a young child, but she’s 16 now and she yearned for something more grown-up – a calming escape where she could study and relax with friends. And I spied on a Farrow & Ball noticeboard an advertisement for their colour consultancy service.
Colour curator Joa Studholme has worked at Farrow & Ball for 24 years, inventing colours that have become legendary among decorators, including the charming Nancy’s Blushes, named after her daughter’s pink cheeks.
Continue reading...Michael Evans filled every available space with a treasure trove of British, French and Japanese works. Now they’re up for auction
Until recently, one of the best British postwar ceramics collections was to be found on a council estate in east London. “It was a bit like walking into a reliquary,” says the ceramicist Annie Turner, a regular visitor to the two-bed flat. “You’d go into a pretty brutal-looking 1970s building and up a dull concrete stairwell and think, ‘Am I in the right place?’. Then you opened this door, and it was like entering another world.”
Behind that very ordinary front door was a treasure trove. Mostly British, French or Japanese, around 1,200 ceramic works clustered on shelves, grouped on tables and desks, and even used as planters on the tiny balcony. Among the objects were key pieces by Lucie Rie and Edmund de Waal, and contemporary works by Turner herself, and Sara Flynn – two award-winning artists whose prices have recently risen sharply.
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