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12Aug

INSPIRED LIVING

Many of us have been inspired by the recent beautiful images of the buildings in Paris, which may have prompted your own desire to visit, but it’s not just Paris that can fire our imagination. Every country, including our own, has the most beautiful architecture and its own style of interior

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24Apr

A Cherished Home

Living Beautifully in Paris – Mathilde Favier

This scintillating volume takes readers on an exclusive journey through Paris, guided by Mathilde Favier—the charismatic public relations director at Dior Couture.

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20Mar

Creative Studio

Studio Ceramics (Victoria and Albert Museum) – Alun Graves & Tanya Harrod

Contemporary ceramicists working in Britain, including Rachel Kneebone, Grayson Perry and Edmund de Waal, are part of a broader international group of artists experimenting with clay, considering how it intersects and works in dialogue with other art forms and with culture at large.

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11Feb

A Cherished Home, Creative Studio

The V&A Sourcebook of Pattern and Ornament (Victoria and Albert Museum) – Amelia Calver

A richly illustrated sourcebook of two-dimensional pattern and three dimensional ornamentation, presenting more than 1,000 historic and contemporary examples from around the world.

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29Jan

Creative Studio

RSN Essential Stitch Guides: Bead Embroidery – Shelley Cox

Historically beads have always been seen as a desirable source of embellishment. From earliest times beads have been fashioned from a variety of sources to add something special to a garment.

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03Dec

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Liberty: The History – Luxury Edition: Treasure from the archives of the London department store – Marie-Therese Rieber

Liberty is the last word in bohemian luxury, a destination and brand celebrated for its unique blend of avant-garde design and expert craftsmanship.

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26Oct

A Cherished Home

Extraordinary Collections: French Interiors · Flea Markets · Ateliers by Marin Montagut

The art of collecting—from artist’s palettes still freckled with oil paint, to sculpted picture frames, to a menagerie of wooden toy animals—associating an accumulation of kindred objects is at the core of timeless French style.

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21Sep

A Cherished Home

A Year in the French Style: Interiors & Entertaining by Antoinette Poisson

The founders of Antoinette Poisson take readers inside their historic townhouse on the Atlantic coast to discover a style and art of entertaining rooted in French tradition and elegance. Maison Lescop—the historic residence of an eighteenth-century French importer for the Indian trading company in Port-Louis, Brittany—seemed predestined to become the new home

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31Aug

Cutting Garden

Chatsworth – Alan Titchmarsh

Discover Jane Austen’s real-life inspiration for Darcy’s Pemberley. Follow Alan into Chatsworth’s irresistible world of visionaries, pioneers, heroes, villains and English eccentrics, and celebrate the men and women who have shaped the history of the estate over five centuries.

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