Bar Talk

Fancy a beer? Shall we open a bottle? Oh just a glass… Oooh Champagne! or champagne cocktail in this case However you arrive at the big reveal, having a bar at home is pretty slick – and they used to …

Haslam Has It…

So who… is best friend with Min Hogg, legendary founder of WOI was getting down with Tallulah Bankhead age 15 (in between Eton College term times) was a stalwart companion of Diana Cooper née Manners had reclusive star Greta Garbo …

Spring Treat

It finally arrived, you know… SPRING.  So late that nature made up for itself in Ireland bursting forth all at once. It’s been most distracting, I keep on encouraging the children to roll in the grass, you know, get down …

Sleeping Beauty

In 1988 Harewood House had a bit of a tidy up in the back of the carpenter’s workshop, and there, amongst the broken chairs and tools they found a sleeping beauty: 20 rolls of exquisite hand painted Chinese wallpaper, hung …

Ode to the Swan

Alexander McQueen Swans, they are rather elegant aren’t they? beautiful in fact, as every girl whose read the Ugly Duckling knows.  The stuff of fairy tales and ancient myths.  Swans are devoted, mating for life.   One of Venus’s symbols …