Creative Choices

The thing about collecting is you have those pulse racing moment… I found THIS, as happened when I stumbled upon: Printed in 1934 by Parsons and Sons ‘Colour and Varnish makers since 1802‘ it offers ‘the notable colours of the …

Chinoiserie Forever

When Lord Marchmain asks for a bed downstairs, he requests ‘the Chinese drawing-room; and Wilcox the “Queen’s Bed” ‘.  His final days are spent in a  Chinoiserie chimera – to aid his vision of a heavenly kingdom beyond?  And so …

String Again

I am most distracted looking through piles of ‘tear outs’ from old files for  the new ‘country house’.  Spring has not not sprung in the Emerald isle and it’s that kind of week.  What it has brought home to me …