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["3 4 2 1 6 8 57 10 9 12 11 GET THE LOOK VINTAGE LUXE Layering reclaimed, mid-century and new pieces creates a home with unique character 13 14 1 Sorolla patterned ceramic wall and floor tile, 25x25cm, Verona, \u00a349.95 per sq m, Tiles Ahead 2 Stamped holophane shade, \u00a3295 a pair (one shown), Agapanthus Interiors 3 Rollable wall chart map of Great Britain and Ireland by Westermann, \u00a3462, Pamono 4 Large English Victorian gilt overmantel mirror by Charles Nosotti, \u00a32,900, Love Antiques 5 The Somerset natural double bedstead in black matt, \u00a31,950, The Cornish Bed Company 6 Straight empire shade in acid yellow jute, 40cm, \u00a366, Pooky 7 Urku round crackle lamp, \u00a3112, Nkuku 8 H\u00c4RLIGA glass dome with base, \u00a310, IKEA; Rolleicord Va Version 2 120 film camera with case, \u00a3450, Vintage Camera Hut 9 Vintage oak perpetual desk calendar, \u00a380.99, Kyoto Vintage Company at Etsy 10 Large leather hat box by T. Evins & Co, Exeter, \u00a3225, Harrington Antiques 11 Observer\u2019s Books multicoloured collection, \u00a334.99 for six, Country House Library 12 Small spathiphyllum (peace lily) in a terracotta ecopot, \u00a345, Flowy 13 Remy armchair in Bahama cotton matt velvet, \u00a3985, Sofa.com 14 Large mid-century teak sideboard, \u00a3585, The Depot at The Hoarde February 2023 Homes & Antiques 51","Restoring GLORY Every inch of Hannah Ellis\u2019s period home has a story to tell, from the original features revealed during its renovation to the interesting antique and salvaged pieces she has chosen to place in it FEATURE ALICE ROBERTON PHOTOGRAPHS TAMSYN MORGANS CLOCKWISE FROM TOP Hannah Ellis; taking on the renovation of a building dating back to the 1600s, with adaptations spanning several eras, has been a challenge Hannah has taken on with great enthusiasm. With a passion for period properties and storied interiors, beauty, function and narrative have been brought together in rooms decorated with vintage, antique and salvaged objects; Hannah cherishes an invitation from c1950 inviting her grandfather \u2013 a highly regarded accountant in the army \u2013 to an event in the USA. 52 Homes & Antiques February 2023","February 2023 Homes & Antiques 53","CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE LEFT The kitchen has a striking original beam which was uncovered during the renovation; the west side of the hall has a fascinating history that has seen it changing ownership, usage and layout over the years; a delightful pantry features original curved tiled pillars and a slate slab; a substantial kitchen island has been made out of a haberdasher\u2019s shop unit and an old piece of teak \u2013 previously a school lab worktop. 54 Homes & Antiques February 2023","Coming from a family of 2022 she launched Half a Hall Design House builders and growing up in the & Studio to achieve salvage-style interiors for thick of the dust and dirt of like-minded folk. The Hall is also used as a shoot one home renovation after location for advertising. Hannah\u2019s home is not another, Hannah Ellis was only an excellent example of a period restoration adept at mixing cement by \u2013 it also proves how antique, vintage and salvage the tender age of 10. Now on her second period can be used together to create a home that feels property renovation with husband Aled, she has contemporary and relevant. Every project she spent the past three years creating a refreshingly undertakes includes second-hand, salvaged or bold yet classic home, which demonstrates just antique furniture, and she is keen to champion how well old and new mix. the idea that second-hand isn\u2019t second best. Located on the edge of a village in North Wales, their home is the west half of a hall that dates Hannah\u2019s close relationship with her back to the late 1600s. The property has a grandmother sparked her love of antiques and fascinating history that has seen changes in vintage: \u2018I love to hear her stories, which link ownership, usage and layout over the centuries. objects to the past.\u2019 One such object is an old Thought to have once been owned by the Topham party invitation from the 1950s, which sits on the family, developers of Aintree Racecourse, it was Hall\u2019s dining room mantelpiece. \u2018My grandfather later used by an American tank regiment during was a highly regarded accountant in the army the Second World War, before being turned into and the invitation was from Harold Caccia \u2013 a flats in the 1950s. British diplomat \u2013 and his wife, Lady Caccia, to a Hannah and Aled\u2019s share of the Hall includes garden party in Maryland, USA. I would dearly sections of the main house and parts of the love to see photos of the party,\u2019 she says. servants\u2019 quarters, and an interesting contrast between utility and grandeur can be seen For someone who doesn\u2019t necessarily describe throughout. \u2018The house has undergone so many themselves as a collector, Hannah\u2019s home is filled changes over the years, and we are forever with a wealth of flea market and auction finds, looking for clues as to how it would originally from timeworn vintage rugs to antique books, have been laid out and used,\u2019 says Hannah. \u2018It and simple stone and glassware to maps. Art was a real maze, so we\u2019ve reconfigured the layout \u2013 largely female portraits \u2013 and furniture play a to be more family friendly.\u2019 The renovation has key role, with both being chosen for their unique uncovered a number of artefacts and some pieces aesthetic, story and indeed potential. She of the puzzle have been solved: \u2018The room we is particularly drawn to objects that can be now call \u2018The Smoking Room\u2019 has an incredible repurposed, \u2018like our kitchen island,\u2019 she says. Jacobean-style fireplace and Victorianesque Made from a haberdasher\u2019s shop unit topped with wood panelling, however we\u2019ve discovered that an old teak worktop from a school laboratory, she the wall separating us from our neighbours was loves the signs of wear, such as the holes where a later addition. On the other side is a grand the Bunsen burners would once have been. staircase, so our guess is that, together, these spaces were the original entrance hall.\u2019 The size of the Hall means it can easily take The couple really struck gold when they large furniture \u2013 the couple inherited two very uncovered enormous, original oak beams with grand wardrobes with the house, and further genuine taper burn marks in the kitchen. A huge investigation revealed they were made by Liberty Milners\u2019 safe was also revealed behind many of London. One now stands in their son Iddy\u2019s layers of paint. \u2018I didn\u2019t know anything about bedroom. Another such piece is the vast taper burn marks until I shared a picture on glass-fronted bookcase in The Smoking Room. Instagram, asking if anyone knew what they Originally from the courts in Salford, Hannah were,\u2019 says Hannah. \u2018I got some fascinating now uses it to store her interiors samples, books feedback, however research suggests they were and magazines. \u2018It was being sold on Facebook made deliberately, the theory being that they Marketplace by someone who had salvaged it were part of a folk superstition to protect the from a skip, hoping to fit it into their home,\u2019 she building from fire and lightning.\u2019 explains. \u2018I was delighted to get it.\u2019 Proof, if it Hannah has developed such a love of were needed, of the old adage that \u2018one man\u2019s renovation and interiors that she has now turned trash is another man\u2019s treasure\u2019. It is also exactly the house into a business. At the beginning of the kind of story that Hannah believes lies at the heart of interesting interiors. Find Hannah at halfahall.co.uk and @half _a_hall February 2023 Homes & Antiques 55","Changing the layout while honouring the style and period of the Hall has been just as important as making a modern family home that bursts with original character. An old butcher\u2019s block makes a statement in the entrance hall \u2013 originally part of the servants\u2019 quarters. 56 Homes & Antiques February 2023","ABOVE & BELOW LEFT The house is sizeable enough to take large pieces of furniture, like the vast cabinet found on Facebook Marketplace, which Hannah uses to house interiors samples, books and magazines. Representing several design styles, the character of the Smoking Room, complete with Jacobean-style fireplace and wood panelling, has been enhanced with comfortable antique furniture. BELOW RIGHT The upstairs of Hannah and Aled\u2019s half is accessed via what would originally have been the servants\u2019 stairs. February 2023 Homes & Antiques 57","ABOVE LEFT Vintage jewellery spills out of an attractive fabric-covered box displayed on a chest of drawers in the bedroom. ABOVE RIGHT & BELOW LEFT New and old come together in perfect harmony throughout the house as cleverly demonstrated in the family and en suite bathrooms, where antique washstands are used alongside new basins, baths and hardware. BELOW RIGHT Zoned walls painted in aubergine and white add a contemporary edge and cleverly draw the eye down the hallway. 58 Homes & Antiques February 2023","Every project Hannah undertakes Soft colours create a feeling includes second-hand, salvaged of calm in Hannah and or antique furniture, and she is Aled\u2019s bedroom. Hannah has keen to champion the idea that preserved as much original second-hand isn\u2019t second best flooring as possible, painting floorboards and adding antique rugs where needed. February 2023 Homes & Antiques 59","Meeting of MINDS An inveterate collector and an architect with minimalist taste have found common ground to create a harmonious home FEATURE FR ANCINE R AYMOND PHOTOGRAPHS JODY STEWART 60 Homes & Antiques February 2023","FACING PAGE A marble-topped patisserie table sits in the bay window in the sitting room. The Roman blinds are made from hessian, and the vintage letters are from a French shoe shop. THIS PAGE The sofa is covered with antique quilts and cushions made from vintage ticking. The mantelpiece is home to an impressive display of rubber glove moulds \u2013 one of Rune Wold\u2019s many arresting collections. February 2023 Homes & Antiques 61","The dining room table, surrounded by a set of Arne Jacobsen Ant chairs, is set with favourite pre-war Royal Copenhagen and Georg Jensen cutlery. The couple bought the large, foxed mirror at The Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair at Battersea, while the oil painting was bought via online auction. 62 Homes & Antiques February 2023","Have you ever found yourself markets in different directions, we rarely end up wondering about a dealer\u2019s buying anything the other doesn\u2019t love.\u2019 home while browsing their stock at a fair, in their shop Their house is simply decorated in classic or online? It\u2019s tempting shades of grey throughout, and bursts of burnt to assume that years orange, red and ochre lift each room. This of collecting must have resulted in the kind of neutral backdrop shows off their possessions outstanding final edit to which we all aspire \u2013 beautifully: the painted bannisters on the a house not only filled with fabulous furniture landings make useful display rails for vintage and features, but one that is also brimming with fabrics, while the landing walls set off simply clever decorating ideas and styling tips. framed graphic prints and a striking black-and- And looking around dealer and collector Rune white destination blind from a London bus route. Wold\u2019s home, this feels like a fair assumption. Ancient maps and foxed mirrors, vintage posters However, Rune would likely disagree. According and faded paintings take pride of place above to him, there\u2019s no such thing as a final edit. beds and fireplaces, but it\u2019s the multiples of \u2018Many dealers live with their best buys for a objects that catch the eye. Along the sitting room while, until something even better turns up and mantelpiece range a collection of French rubber then they make their way onto the shop floor and glove moulds, each one slightly different, and the eventually into someone else\u2019s home,\u2019 he says. sideboard in the master bedroom is covered with \u2018I live in an ever-changing panorama where the Chinese ginger jars. \u2018I\u2019m obsessed with them,\u2019 basic style remains the same, but the smaller Rune says. \u2018They all vary, so my collection will elements change constantly.\u2019 He believes that, never be complete.\u2019 deep down, many dealers are buyers rather than sellers at heart, admitting that when he wanders This may all sound rather spartan, but the around a French market he tends to buy what areas that need to be comfortable, such as the he loves, very rarely thinking about whether or sitting room and bedrooms, are decked with not it will sell. layers of cushions, quilts, woolly blankets and With an eclectic career spanning finance and counterpanes; some floral, others striped, all translation work (from his native Norwegian helping to soften and invite. They spring into English), Rune\u2019s transition from enthusiastic from a seemingly bottomless supply, housed collector to professional antiques dealer \u2013 via his in cupboards and in teetering piles all over the Instagram page \u2013 has been gradual. He has a house. A love of fabrics is something else the popular stall at Faversham Antiques & Vintage couple shares. Rune collects from French Market in Kent: a spectacular venue that attracts markets and buys pre-war linens and ticking, customers on the first Sunday of each month, while Hendrik knits complicated Fair Isle where he and husband Hendrik Heyns lay out sweaters and makes garments in the attic his wares in eye-catching style. His stock ranges workroom, devising his own patterns, often from French industrial clothing and rustic using vintage fabrics. pottery, to Japanese textiles, mid-century furniture and Scandinavian art. Another conciliatory element between their The couple\u2019s home is a classic Edwardian two styles is the lighting. They both think the three-storey terraced house near Rochester Old quality of the light in a room is as important Town, and is decorated with the same panache as the actual design of the light fitting, so they as their market stall; an aesthetic that has its chose the PH5 pendant lamp designed by Danish roots in their Scandinavian and South African genius Poul Henningsen for every room and backgrounds. But Hendrik is an architect with landing in the house. Unimpressed by the quality minimalist instincts, while Rune tends towards of light shed by the new bulbs in the 1950s, a more maximalist style. \u2018Initially we had totally Henningsen created a glare-free light as close to different ideas,\u2019 says Rune, explaining that natural light as possible, illuminating not just the they compromised by making the kitchen and area beneath it, but the whole room as well. Of bathroom as simple as possible, in contrast to the course, it had to look good too, and it is now a comfortable living rooms and bedrooms. \u2018We now classic Scandinavian design. seem to be 99 per cent on the same page,\u2019 he says. \u2018Our tastes have developed along parallel lines \u2013 There are still two rooms in the house that so much so that, when we walk the French need their PH5 \u2013 the attic workroom and the kitchen. \u2018But they will come,\u2019 says Hendrik, confirming the myth of the final edit. \u2018It\u2019s good to still have things to look out for.\u2019 @norse_vintage February 2023 Homes & Antiques 63","CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT The breakfast area at the end of the galley kitchen overlooks a small courtyard garden, which is planted with silver birch. An antique rug and a wooden cupboard provide subtle colour and warmth \u2013 a pleasing contrast to the slightly utilitarian feel of the kitchen; the tiled wall above the stainless steel worktop and glossy kitchen units is not only practical, but also a reflection of Hendrik\u2019s more minimalist aesthetic; the bannisters make a useful display rail for more of the couple\u2019s vintage fabrics, and a black-and-white route map provides a dramatic focal point; intriguing collections are displayed on every surface in the house, such as these South African masks and Zulu pots, which sit alongside some vintage tools and a stack of Japanese books. 64 Homes & Antiques February 2023","\u2018Our tastes have developed along parallel lines. When we walk the French markets in different directions, we rarely end up buying anything the other doesn\u2019t love\u2019 The couple\u2019s studio-cum-workshop is up in the eaves of the house and is where they keep their collection of vintage French fabrics, most of which are sourced from a favourite market in the south of France. The rocking chair and the Danish sofa by Peter Hvidt and Orla M\u00f8lgaard-Nielsen came from Simply Danish in Margate. The kilim came from Jenny Hicks Beach. February 2023 Homes & Antiques 65","66 Homes & Antiques February 2023","The couple picked up the brass bed in a local charity shop. It is piled high with cushions and bolsters made from velvet, ticking and linen. A 1950s tapestry by post-war artist Robert Debi\u00e8ve was a gift from a friend, and the framed illustration above the fireplace is by their friend, Christopher Corr. The stacked vintage suitcases and steamer trunks are among Rune\u2019s favourite finds. February 2023 Homes & Antiques 67","CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Vintage fabrics spill out of cupboards in the bedroom and are piled all over the house. Rune is particularly drawn to blue shirting, which he sources all over France and sells from his stall at Faversham Market; a map of the Paris Metro from the 1950s fills the space between the built-in wardrobes either side of the bed. Cushions made from vibrant vintage fabrics contrast with the antique quilts and traditional blankets that are layered across the foot of the bed. A shallow shelf holds books and a growing collection of toy dogs; a run of low cupboards provides the perfect place for Rune\u2019s multitude of ginger jars, which have been picked up all over France and the UK, each one unique. The prints are Hendrik\u2019s and were bought in South Africa. 68 Homes & Antiques February 2023","2 3 1 4 7 5 68 9 GET THE LOOK PERFECT BLEND A curated collection of timeless treasures and mid-century design classics 10 11 12 1 Framed mid-century tapestry by Robert Debi\u00e8ve, inspired by Cubism (frame not shown), \u00a37,529.78, Ist Dibs 2 Model PH5 pendant light by Louis Poulsen, c1960s, \u00a3395, Otto\u2019s Antiques 3 Nomad Sultan rug, from \u00a3195, Weaver Green 4 Toudon herringbone blue stripe cushion, \u00a345, The French Bedroom Company 5 Trio of Chinese export ginger jars, \u00a3550, Caroline de Kerangl Ltd Design at Decorative Collective 6 Carved African mask, \u00a3175, Fontaine Decorative 7 Ceramic rubber glove hand moulds, \u00a355 each, Merchant & Found at Vinterior 8 Antique folk art jointed wooden dog, c1900, \u00a3275, Clubhouse Interiors Ltd 9 Original bus destination roll section, South Harrow Station to Yeading, \u00a3100, Martin Green Interiors at Vinterior 10 Crumpet armchair in Cardamom Cake clever vintage linen, \u00a31,645, Loaf 11 Minerva daybed or sofa by Peter Hvidt & Orla M\u00f8lgaard for France & S\u00f8n, \u00a33,961.28, Ist Dibs 12 Brown vintage leather suitcase, early 1900s, \u00a3145, Scaramanga February 2023 Homes & Antiques 69","March Jan Baldwin issue On sale Wednesday 8th February Female trailblazers, from Eleanor Coade to Susie Cooper + Six of the best lighthouses + Collecting Victorian calling cards + Behind the scenes at English Heritage PLUS Expert advice, exhibitions, fairs and auctions","ANTIQUES & COLLECTING Best online ANTIQUES PORTALS, a buyer\u2019s guide to MARRIAGE CHESTS, collecting Welsh LOVE SPOONS, plus STAR SALES Presented to couples on their wedding day, hand-painted marriage chests from central and Eastern Europe are as symbolic as they are decorative. Read on from p80 February 2023 Homes & Antiques 71","FABRIC OF LIFE A stitch in time With roots dating back to the Middle Ages, Make Do and Mend took hold during the Second World War, and is gaining new followers with both a social conscience and fashionable eye, says Celia Rufey Before they became watchwords, should yet be discoverable in needle process, and \u00a9 National Trust\/Trevor Noble; \u00a9 National Trust Images\/Nadia Mackenzie; \u00a9 National Trust Images\/Andreas von people in centuries past knew that of so utilitarian character.\u2019 Einsiedel; Flora Collingwood-Norris; \u00a9 National Trust\/Simon Harris; Rose + Julien Ltd all about make do and mend and repair what you wear. From the The type of sewing that women undertook medieval era to the 19th century, depended on their status. In higher-tier households, buying cloth and then sewing it tended to be decorative rather than practical, with garments at home was expensive embroidery particularly popular. But not every in terms of time and money. Most piece of work was a success as we learn from people owned few clothes and if a garment was Samuel Pepys in 1663 when he \u2018spent the evening worn or torn it was repaired. If it no longer fitted, with my wife, and she and I did jangle mightily extra fabric might be let in or out or it was unpicked about her cushions that she wrought with worsteds and made into a different garment. Some garments the last year, which are too little for any use\u2019. were designed with the prospect of alteration built in, including tucks in children\u2019s clothing for letting Stitches for hand sewing before the advent of the out as the child grew. Clothing was also handed sewing machine include many familiar names. down through generations and, when a person died, Running stitch to join fabric together was often the contents of their wardrobe were given to combined with backstitch whose continuous someone who could use them. Second-hand clothing straight line used alone gave a stronger seam. Raw was also profitably traded. edges were turned and held in place with fell stitch, Though much of the clothing worn in earlier and blanket stitch edged buttonholes. The stitch centuries was made and repaired in the home, bank on the Royal School of Needlework\u2019s website households that could afford a seamstress to make illustrates more than 250 stitches with videoed garments usually also had servants and might demonstrations of how to sew each one. employ one with mending skills as part of her terms of engagement. Mending was almost entirely Anyone looking back on the post Second World worked by women, although many seamen took a War years remembers having fewer clothes and compact sewing kit with them to deal with damage an acceptance of hand-me-downs. Fast fashion to their garments as they sailed the world. They accelerated through the following decades and now probably used it too, as some ships factored in we see horrifying quantities of discarded clothing mending days. going to landfill and incineration. Punk-inspired Darning was an essential skill for repairing socks, jeans purchased with rips and tears instigated the stockings, tears and holes in clothing, table linens first revolt against garment perfection. Though it and, from the 16th century, knitted garments. The raised eyebrows on why this wasn\u2019t done to an old range of stitches and the quality of needlework pair, it inspired the perfect counterpoint \u2013 visible from the 17th century onwards is seen in samplers mending. This adds a positive dynamic to repair, be worked by children, including darning samplers it a darn, a patch or embroidery. A leading exponent that replicate different weave structures. They of visible mending is darning specialist Flora illustrate how, with correct coloured thread, a darn Collingwood-Norris, who also runs workshops. can be integrated invisibly into any fabric. John \u2018Bringing colours and pattern to repairs adds to the Ruskin, the Victorian writer and philosopher, was story of the piece,\u2019 she says, \u2018and can make an old an advocate of needlework as part of children\u2019s garment feel like a new one.\u2019 Artists\u2019 contribution education. He movingly described watching to sustainability is timely as repair is becoming children stitch a repair to a frayed edge as being \u2018in fashionable with more of us trying to do it. We may the likeness of herringbone masonry, crimson on not have learned useful needlework at school but white, but it seemed to me marvellous that anything there\u2019s a willingness to make a start. If you haven\u2019t heard of a \u2018sewcial\u2019, it\u2019s the new word for having friends round for a companionable session of tea and mending. Perhaps you could start one. 72 Homes & Antiques February 2023","CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Man\u2019s Regency silk waistcoat with floral hand embroidery c1790\u20131809 at Sudbury Hall; hand-stitched 18th-century hangings in the Blue Bedroom at Erdigg, National Trust; this hand-sewn muslin evening gown, 1812\u201315, has an embroidered floral pattern using single strands of silk. In the Snowshill Collection at Berrington Hall, National Trust; visible darning adds colour to a cable cardigan, Flora Collingwood- Norris (collingwoodnorrisdesign.com); furnishings in the West Turret Bedroom at Blickling Hall include c1700 hand-stitched crewelwork; hand-sewn heavily boned corset lined in linen, 1750\u20131800, part of the Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, National Trust; cheerful visible repair to gloves, Flora Collingwood- Norris.","homesandantiques.com The home of stylish & eclectic living online Philip Sowels H&A\u2019s newsletter \u2013 sign Discover up to stay in the know: the antiques you should \u2022 House tours \u2022 Antiques shopping own! \u2022 Travel inspiration \u2022 Competitions & offers facebook.com\/homesantiques twitter.com\/homes_antiques instagram.com\/homes_antiques pinterest.co.uk\/homesantiques","OPEN ALL HOURS Dealers are adapting to the digital age, thanks to the growing sophistication of online portals with a curated edge, says Caroline Wheater","\u2018Auctions and fairs are a terrific way to shop, but the selection can be limited. 1stDibs offers access to many more options from around the world\u2019 magine a wintry Sunday is a sophisticated universe where thing for the antiques world as afternoon settled on the curated platforms match selected it opens up businesses to the sofa, tea at hand and pet dealers, galleries and auction potential of 24\/7 sales.\u2019 The at foot. Ahead lies the houses with discerning buyers. auction houses were quick to take delicious prospect of a \u2018The increased interest in advantage of this, she says, adding few free hours, so you sustainable consumption together that it has taken the antiques with the technological maturity of trade \u2018a little longer to develop a reach for your users as well as auction houses and rewarding presence online, but laptop to do some dealers has increased radically,\u2019 now it\u2019s a fundamental aspect of window shopping of the antiques says Pontus Silfverstolpe, co- most dealers\u2019 business plans.\u2019 The kind, browsing through favourite founder of Swedish auction house latest Hiscox Online Art Trade online portals to see what\u2019s new, in search engine Barnebys, and he Report confirms that the online search of inspiration. Calmly, you is sure the trend will continue: \u2018It sales share of the global art and zip around the likes of Barnebys, offers huge opportunities for our antiques market more than 2Covet, Vinterior and Hoarde industry as a whole to grow.\u2019 doubled to 20 per cent between Vintage, narrowing down your 2019 and 2021, making $13.3 billion. searches to view just some of the Some portals carry only the \u2018The projections are for that rate of millions of pre-owned items put finest pieces from the most revered growth in the second-hand market up for sale by myriad dealers and sources \u2013 a price tag of \u00a310,000 \u2013 covering antiques, collectables auction houses in the UK and would be a snip, while others offer and vintage \u2013 to accelerate abroad. Nesting has never been affordable and quirky finds from considerably over the next five so much fun. With the click of a under \u00a3100. Whatever your budget, years,\u2019 adds Stacey Tiveron, mouse, that Victorian copper jelly portals save time and increase founder of Ronati \u2013 an umbrella mould is yours, or the Art Deco choice, enhancing the experience platform for some of the top chaise longue you\u2019ve longed for, or with trend guides, designer antiques dealer portals. a colourful French print. interviews, newsletters and sleek Twenty years ago, when the online magazines. As Freya While we still love browsing at digital revolution began, we bought Simms, chief executive of the fairs and seeing things in real antiques at fairs and shops, and dealers\u2019 association LAPADA, life, buying online is easy and the online offering was limited to which represents over 550 UK convenient. Jane Walton, a dealer pioneering listings platforms such dealers, explains, online sales have herself who founded Decorative as Antiques Atlas (founded 1999) \u2018grown dramatically over the last Collective in 2009 and Hoarde and Selling Antiques (founded decade, and accelerated during the Vintage in 2011, explains the 2003). Now, the online marketplace pandemic. In general, it\u2019s a good appeal. \u2018The portal is the 76 Homes & Antiques February 2023","Antiques Portals From leather club chairs to TOP TIPS exuberant rococo ceramics, For Buying simple chests of drawers Online to large oil paintings, and everything in between, the Use this checklist before clicking \u2018Buy Now\u2019 best antique pieces from around the world are at Seek details your fingertips... While the online buying experience should be a positive equivalent of a shop front to invite appreciated the convivial nature of one, as with anything bought sight people in. The technology we use walking into a favourite showroom unseen, remember the old adage, has attracted younger buyers who and discussing a piece,\u2019 says caveat emptor or \u2018let the buyer might not go to a fair or visit a Carmine Bruno, founder of The beware\u2019. To this end, ask dealers shop, and also introduced an older Bruno Effect, \u2018which is a key for as much detail as possible clientele who are used to fairs but reason we encourage a direct about an item, including pictures are nervous of buying online from relationship between buyers and taken at different angles. Ask about an individual dealer. Buyers can dealers. By harnessing the power dimensions, colour, condition and feel secure in their purchase,\u2019 she of the internet we offer buyers that whether there are any visible signs says, \u2018because I know many of the on a global scale, whether it\u2019s in an dealers personally and this gives antiques shop in Copenhagen or of damage. clients trust in my websites.\u2019 a gallery in Palm Springs. It\u2019s no Matthew Rubinger of 1stDibs longer about buying what you find Understand payments expands on this point, saying: \u2013 it\u2019s about finding exactly what and refunds \u2018Auctions and fairs are a terrific you want. And then discussing the way to shop for vintage and piece with the dealer \u2013 regardless Some portals are fully antiques, but the selection can be of their location.\u2019 transactional, such as 1stDibs and limited. The benefit that 1stDibs dpa picture alliance\/Alamy Stock Photo; Getty Images offers is access to many more Vinterior, and offer purchase options, from around the world. safeguards such as 1stDibs\u2019 Buyer You can compare items and learn Protection Guaranteed scheme and about makers and time periods. Consumers have the ability to Vinterior\u2019s Guaranteed 14-days message 1stDibs sellers for more Return Guarantee. Others operate information or additional photos.\u2019 on a non-checkout basis, where And with portals that have direct payment is made from buyer global reach, such as 1stDibs, to seller. In these cases, while the Barnebys, Drouot and The Bruno portal acts as a shopfront, it bears Effect, you can quite literally travel the world from your sitting room, no legal responsibility regarding discovering dealers in France, transactions if an item is damaged Germany, Denmark, the USA and further afield. \u2018I\u2019ve always or not as described. Do check beforehand with individual dealers what their returns and refund process is, should it be necessary. Always check the small print on portals and refer to the Government\u2019s Consumer Contracts Regulations legislation for more reassurance. Check credentials Professional umbrella bodies LAPADA (lapada.org) and BADA (bada.org) offer additional safeguards for items bought from their accredited dealers if things go wrong. LAPADA has a conciliation service that is open to anyone who has purchased from one of its members, while BADA states that in the unlikely event of a mistake in the description of an item it expects its members to make a full refund of the purchase price (it has a free arbitration service too). February 2023 Homes & Antiques 77","Barnebys barnebys.co.uk This Swedish-based search engine for art, design, antiques and collectables was founded in 2011 by Pontus Silfverstolpe and Christopher Barnekow. Each day, you\u2019ll find 500,000\u20131,000,000 items listed by up to 3,000 auction houses, galleries and dealers from Scandinavia and other European countries, including Dreweatts, Chiswick Auctions and Parker Fine Art from the UK. Bbys Magazine is updated daily with sale news and informative features, while the podcast, Eye of the Beholder, is broadcast weekly. Useful features include search alerts and auction results that give a steer on what things make. Value My Stuff provides online valuations across all genres. STYLE STEAL ABOVE 1stDibs regularly shares interiors 2Covet inspiration. BELOW The convenience of Sites such as 1stDibs, home delivery. 2covet.com Barnebys and The Bruno Effect offer interiors inspiration alongside \u2018Shop the exquisite,\u2019 declares the antiques and vintage items on 2Covet\u2019s home page; and with offer. 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Prices has showcased interior designers start from \u20ac180 such as Nina Campbell, Anouska for a taste of Hempel and Alidad. the Continent. February 2023 Homes & Antiques 79","TO HAVE AND TO HOLD Inspired by ornate church interiors and embroidered textiles, the beautiful dowry chests of central and eastern Europe marry folk art with skilled craftsmanship FEATURE ELLIE TENNANT T he tradition of families as soon as a couple Reassuringly hefty and solid, collecting together became engaged. The local these chests carry far more what the French cabinetmakers would set to emotional weight than other refer to as a trousseau work; then, on the occasion of the pieces of furniture. They \u2013 precious linens, fine wedding, the chest would be filled symbolise hope for the future. clothes and household with dowry items and proudly \u2018They\u2019re joyful,\u2019 says dealer Robert items \u2013 in preparation presented to the newlyweds. Young, who specialises in antique for married life, is one that has Helpfully, they were often marked English and European primitive, roots in many cultures around the with a wedding date and initials, country and painted vernacular world (see p83). In the traditional or full name, of the bride (and furniture. \u2018All the way through countryside communities of sometimes groom). central and eastern Europe there central and eastern Europe, from are slight stylistic differences in the 1600s until as recently as the BELOW Folk art marriage chest inscribed the decoration and in the way the 1980s, a hand-painted marriage \u2018Anno. Eliza Barbara Sauaura. 1782\u2019, from chests themselves are made, but chest would be commissioned by Austria, \u00a3POA, Robert Young Antiques. the language \u2013 the symbolism \u2013","Buyer\u2019s Guide remains much the same. For \u2018In our day and age we can feel a bit divorced from example, there are often tulip nature, so I think that\u2019s why people like to bring motifs on marriage chests, which these nature-inspired patterns into their homes\u2019 represent love.\u2019 Many of these painted chests are adorned with ABOVE Swedish folk art marriage chest, embroidery found on the folk butterflies, birds, bees, flowers and oak with wrought-iron strapwork, inscribed costumes from the local area. \u2018The hearts, agrees John Cornall, a \u2018R.S.\u2019 and \u2018ANNO 1648\u2019 and \u20181697\u2019, Robert painters were professionals who former art critic turned import Young Antiques; Hungarian carved and painted according to strict rules and export wholesaler of folk art painted pine marriage chest, c1850, \u00a3650, and customs. Each area had and country furniture, who has John Cornall Antiques. BELOW German specific styles and colours. It was been buying and selling antique marriage coffer with neoclassical carving all very ritualised,\u2019 says John, who marriage chests for over 20 years. and metalwork strapping. Inscription dated has a marriage chest in stock at \u2018It wasn\u2019t just decoration; there \u20181727\u2019, \u00a32,200, John Cornall Antiques. the moment made by \u2018Maty\u00f3\u2019 (one was a symbolic element to it, too, of the tribes that made up the Robert Young Antiques; John Cornall Antiques expressing the hope that the Magyar nation in northern young couple would go on to have Hungary) craftsmen, dated to 1910. plenty of children.\u2019 It imitates the rich embroidered clothing worn in the region, with Often, these gorgeous chests gold on dark grounds. \u2018It\u2019s a style feature patterns inspired by the that harks back to the court dress natural world, which, John feels, of the Renaissance court of King is one of the reasons they are so Matthias, and something of this popular with buyers now. \u2018They splendour comes across in this were produced by people who were chest,\u2019 he enthuses. living close to nature, so they are an expression of things of beauty. It is this sort of aesthetic detail In our day and age we can feel a bit that ignited John\u2019s passion for divorced from nature, so I think painted folk furniture in the first that\u2019s why people like to bring place, along with the potential these nature-inspired patterns for research and discovery. \u2018It into their homes.\u2019 immediately struck a note with me,\u2019 he recalls. \u2018When I started Robert Young points out that marriage chests are also incredibly compatible with contemporary living. \u2018There\u2019s something so eccentric about them that they work in a modern setting,\u2019 he explains. \u2018More than half of the pieces we sell go to urban homes and, of those, more than half go to contemporary houses and sit alongside concrete and glass. People use them almost like artworks. They are practical, too \u2013 the right height to be used as a coffee table, or placed at the end of a bed for storage, of course.\u2019 The painted decoration on marriage chests is specific to particular geographical regions and some of the designs are truly stunning. \u2018There\u2019s a mountainous area of Bohemia called Pardubice, which borders on Poland and Germany,\u2019 says John. \u2018Chests from there often have marbled patterns on them, which represents light shining through the leaves of a poplar tree as the wind\u2019s blowing.\u2019 Sometimes, the painting is inspired by and imitates the February 2023 Homes & Antiques 81","\u2018A lot of painted folk furniture had been hidden LEFT Folk painted marriage chest John Cornall Antiques; Howgego; Robert Young Antiques behind the Iron Curtain, so hadn\u2019t been circulated with decoration inspired by light shining through poplar branches, from in the UK antiques market\u2019 Pardubice, Bohemia, \u00a31,650, John Cornall Antiques. RIGHT Folk art dealing, a lot of this stuff had been BELOW Folk painted marriage chest marriage chest from northern Europe, hidden behind the Iron Curtain so dated to 1910, with floral decoration c1830, Robert Young Antiques. hadn\u2019t been circulated in the UK imitating textile embroidery, from the antiques market. It was land of the Maty\u00f3 in northern Hungary, became more colourful and ornate. fascinating exploring the little- \u00a3850, John Cornall Antiques; 17th- \u2018Country furniture always known folk-art traditions of imitates finer furniture, which central and eastern Europe.\u2019 century Italian \u2018cassone\u2019 in walnut, was seen in the wealthier houses c1650\u20131700, \u00a34,000, Howgego. in big towns and in churches. In You can pay up to \u00a33,500 for a the baroque and rococo periods, marriage chest that\u2019s immaculate, the interiors of churches were and around \u00a3450 for less perfect colourful, with painted columns ones. Traditionally, a marriage decorated with marble effects and chest was kept at the end of the angels, so country cabinetmakers bed or in \u2018the clean room\u2019 \u2013 a bit were inspired by that,\u2019 adds John. like a \u2018front room\u2019 \u2013 where people kept their best things. \u2018This room While marriage chests were was only used on Sundays and at made in 17th-century Britain, too, Christmas, so chests are often in there are no examples of anything good condition, though sometimes painterly or decorative, which is they were used as a seat, so the top largely down to our religious has worn away a bit,\u2019 says John. history. \u2018When Henry VIII created the Church of England, we went The earliest examples John sees anti-colour, anti-festive,\u2019 points out date from the late 17th century. John. \u2018This was repeated in the \u2018The earlier 17th-century ones 17th century with Cromwell. aren\u2019t highly decorated \u2013 they tend Painted church interiors were to be stencilled or painted simply whitewashed and carvings were in wood colours,\u2019 he explains. destroyed, so our old furniture From the first quarter of the 18th tends to be plain. If you went back century onwards, marriage chests to late medieval times, there would have been a lot more colourful, painted furniture, but none of it has survived.\u2019 Most of the central and eastern European chests were made from pine, but the British Isles were blessed with oak forests. \u2018Our 82 Homes & Antiques February 2023","Buyer\u2019s Guide oak trees provided materials for MARRIAGE CHESTS making 17th-century marriage Around the world boxes, which were decorated with simple carvings or inlaid woods, WA L E S but not painted,\u2019 John explains. Dealer Tim Bowen, who specialises in Welsh country furniture and With his art critic background, folk art, says coffer bachs \u2013 small marriage chests \u2013 are popular with it\u2019s no surprise that John is buyers today. Miniature imitations of larger grain or linen chests, they especially drawn to the painted are particular to Wales and date from the 1700s to the 1920s. chests of central and eastern Europe. \u2018Some folk furniture has a \u2018They are regarded as love or dowry chests and often contained a similar aesthetic to modern art Bible and pieces of precious linen,\u2019 reveals Tim. \u2018They\u2019re not painted in a way,\u2019 he says. \u2018You can judge and are rarely marked with dates or initials like eastern European these pieces in the same way you ones can be, but the inlay work on them is very special.\u2019 would a painting.\u2019 Sadly, some chests have been ill-advisedly Mostly made from oak (although Tim has seen a few in elm), they repainted, but the ones John are sometimes decorated with contrasting woods such as bog oak sources have a lovely patina and and holly. \u2018The decoration would have been even more striking when are in their original condition. One it was first made \u2013 jet black against bright white,\u2019 explains Tim. such example is a mid 19th- century Ottoman peasant bridal GERMANY box with a delightful floral design inside the lid, reminiscent of Tall, wardrobe-like chests with double doors were popular in Islamic decorative art. \u2018The Germany. An aussteuerschrank (dowry cabinet) would contain abstract patterns are almost wedding garments, linens and precious possessions for the marriage Matisse-like,\u2019 he muses, dreamily. and was intended for regular use in the home after the wedding. They were often constructed so they could be easily dismantled for Robert Young agrees that colour transport. The Dutch Kast marriage cupboard is similar. is what gives these chests their enduring appeal: \u2018The palette is so AMERICA exciting. I love the narrative and the individuality of them; they\u2019re Waves of European immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia so personal.\u2019 It\u2019s clear the admirers brought the tradition of painted chests to America. Young, unmarried of these beautiful chests are American women collected dowry linen, clothing and household wedded to folk art for life. items together in a \u2018hope chest\u2019 (also sometimes called a \u2018cedar chest\u2019) before their wedding day, which would then move with WHERE TO BUY them to their new home after marriage. This is the equivalent of an Australian \u2018glory box\u2019, or the UK concept of filling your \u2018bottom John Cornall Antiques drawer\u2019 in preparation for your wedding day. johncornallantiques.com I TA LY Robert Young Antiques robertyoungantiques.com Large, decorated marriage chests made in Italy from the 14th to 16th century are called Cassoni. Along with the marriage bed, they were Tim Bowen Antiques treasured by wealthy Renaissance households and held textiles and timbowenantiques.co.uk precious clothing. They were often made from walnut or poplar and were sometimes decorated with coats of arms, gilding and wedding Howgego Historic scenes. Cassoni were traditionally made in pairs. A Cassapanca & Modern lucy-johnson.com \u2013 which translates as \u2018chest bench\u2019 \u2013 was similar and used as a marriage chest and for storage, but also as seating. Dating from the Italian Renaissance period, they were often ornately carved. FRANCE \u2018A French marriage chest is called un coffre de mariage and I\u2019ve had some lovely ones over the years,\u2019 says Robert Young. \u2018They\u2019re small and were often decorated with hearts.\u2019 February 2023 Homes & Antiques 83","LEFT TO RIGHT A Flight, Barr & Barr plate with a rich Imari pattern, used at the Brighton Pavilion, c1825; Flight & Barr beaker in the style of John Pennington, 1796\u20131800, sold at Bonhams for \u00a3828; a plate from the dinner service made for William IV, 1829, now in the Museum of Royal Worcester; Flight, Barr & Barr pair of pot pourris c1815\u20131830. Worcester takes FLIGHT (& BARR) Before the great Royal Worcester factory was founded in 1862, the city had already enjoyed a golden time in ceramics, says Willa Latham W hile the Staffordshire Potteries took they battled dirty kilns, lazy workers, problems with off in the early 19th century, the city sulphur that ruined the glaze, tired old blue- of Worcester, which had already been and-white patterns and, worst of all, the chief making porcelain for much longer, manufacturing clerk who stole ingredients, covering did not sit idle either. This month let\u2019s this up by refusing to disclose the porcelain recipe and look at the famous Flight & Barr era. obstructing any improvements. Now I can hear those of you familiar with this Slowly but surely the brothers dealt with the manufacturer moan: Flight & Barr? I thought it was problems and made progress. They got lucky when, in Barr, Flight & Barr\u2026 or no, was it Flight, Barr & Barr? 1788, George III paid a visit, bought porcelain and I know, this is hugely confusing, but today let\u2019s shine gave a Royal Warrant. This was a life saver as a Royal some light on the matter. Warrant could make or break a factory; once the King and Queen used your porcelain, nobility would follow. By the 1770s, Dr Wall\u2019s famous porcelain factory (the first in Worcester, founded in 1751) was in decline \u2013 In 1791 Joseph died and John took his brother-in-law, fashions changed and Dr Wall had failed to keep up. He Martin Barr, into partnership. This is where the first of retired in 1774, died soon after and in 1783 the factory the three \u2018Flight & Barr\u2019 periods began. I am saying was sold to its London agent, Thomas Flight, an east three, as the factory would still change its name twice London banker. Flight put his sons, Joseph and John, more, creating that terrible confusion. The period in charge. But if they thought they\u2019d won the lottery, between the great Dr Wall and the arrival of Barr they would quickly discover that they had taken on a is called the \u2018Flight\u2019 period, but this was mostly a hugely outmoded and troubled concern that would take transition that did not leave us much high-quality years to turn around. However, turn it around they did: porcelain. By the time Barr arrived, the factory was in 84 Homes & Antiques February 2023","Column Reproduced by kind permission of the Museum of Royal Worcester \u00a9 Dyson Perrins Museum Trust; Gentle Rattle of China; Bonhams; Hutchinson Scott Auctioneers a much better place and had started to decorate more students. And it is worth giving some consideration exuberantly: the sublime \u2018Hope\u2019 service (featuring to the huge number of talented people in a small monochrome paintings of a woman \u2013 Hope \u2013 by John city like Worcester, once opportunities and a good Pennington) was created for the Duke of Clarence, and teacher are made available. the \u2018Kylin\u2019 pattern, with its weird and wonderful polychrome monsters (based on an ancient Chinese As the Prince Regent became a major customer, mythical beast called \u2018Qilin\u2019), was revived. this helped to push the style further towards the very exuberant Regency fashion with its feathers, shells and In 1804 Barr\u2019s son Martin Jr joined as a partner, and exhilaratingly clashing colours. Flight, Barr & Barr the name changed once again, to \u2018Barr, Flight & Barr\u2019. became the go-to for large armorial services for royalty, This is when the style changed from the rather nobility and even the wannabes who would make up restrained French aesthetic to more flamboyant their own coats of arms. Gorgeous dinner and dessert designs with a neoclassical feel. Fresh colours, great services were produced, as well as countless teawares paintings, and bright gilt all helped to wow the elite, and stunning vases; the Prince Regent furnished his and customers were falling over each other to order Brighton Pavilion with an outrageous Imari service. the tea and dinner sets they\u2019d been using at each other\u2019s parties. If you were a British noble, you\u2019d go As the public\u2019s taste started to move towards the to a party, finish your plate, look at the mark on the Rococo Revival in the 1830s, the factory couldn\u2019t keep underside, and hurry to the Barr, Flight & Barr up. And with Joseph Flight\u2019s death in 1840 the curtain showroom to order your own service. fell and the factory sold itself to its rival, Chamberlain. Martin Barr had developed a wonderful orange Now, Chamberlain is a whole other story, without ground colour that would become all the rage. John which probably much of the above would not have Pennington produced refined paintings en grisaille taken place\u2026 but that\u2019s for next time! (in beautiful shades of grey). An excellent team of decorators were paid by the hour so as not to rush them Read Willa\u2019s blog gentlerattleofchina.com, follow her @gentlerattleofchina in their task. They collaborated tightly, each painting details on a piece that best suited their skills; ground \u2022 The Museum of Royal Worcester\u2019s new Showstopper Trail colour, flowers, gilding, main images, and, importantly, is open and online. Explore the stories of Worcester porcelain those marks that meant people could rush to buy their through 25 glorious objects, revealing behind-the-scenes archive own service after eating off the same at a dinner party. and insights: museumofroyalworcester.org\/showstopper-gallery When Martin Barr Sr died, his second son George became partner in 1813 and the factory name changed again, this time to \u2018Flight, Barr & Barr\u2019. Sales exploded. They hired the famous painter Thomas Baxter, who only stayed a few years but trained up a generation of high-class painters. Today it is extremely difficult to correctly attribute Baxter\u2019s work; while everyone hopes to have a Baxter on their shelves, in reality many of those pieces were painted by his CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT A Flight dish painted by John Pennington for the famous \u2018Hope\u2019 service, c1790, sold at Bonhams for \u00a35,100; a plate and tureen from the Flight \u2018Kylin\u2019 dessert service, c1790, sold at Bonhams for \u00a33,360 for the whole service; Flight & Barr orphaned tea cup, peach with gilt Greek keys, c1804, \u00a3115, Gentle Rattle of China; Flight & Barr teapot still in the restrained French style, c1792. February 2023 Homes & Antiques 85","ABOVE FROM LEFT A large and striking Welsh love spoon in boxwood, c1860, of rare silhouette form with integral single chain link; a very fine and rare example in fruitwood, c1820, featuring delicate pierced work and the word \u2018Anele\u2019, meaning \u2018to anoint\u2019 in Old English; a pretty spoon in sycamore, c1840, incorporating the highly desirable traditional feature of balls in a cage together with a pierced \u2018soul\u2019 motif and a scratch-carved tree of life.","Collecting WHY I COLLECT Welsh Love Spoons Jonathon and Yvonne Holder are the husband-and-wife team behind Welsh Vernacular Antiques in Llanon, Ceredigion INTERVIEW EMMA LONGSTAFF We met when we were 15 and 16 at a head when he was sitting there for hours and hours. Young Farmers\u2019 barn dance, when The earliest spoon in our collection was made around Jonathon was on holiday in Wales 1800; the latest is from 1904. We have 30 of them now. with his parents. At 18 we moved We also have other love tokens, like a pair of carved into a cottage together in Wales, wooden sugar tongs made around 1900, which carry and have lived there ever since. the same kind of symbolism. Love spoons are probably as The most obvious limitation on growing our important to Welsh people as collection is the price of spoons, and their scarcity. headdresses are to Native Americans \u2013 they\u2019re woven The ones made before 1910 are really sought after. into our society, history, culture. They\u2019re iconic. We Probably 99 per cent of all antique love spoons in bought our first love spoons about 20 years ago \u2013 they existence are already held by private collectors. You were modern spoons with less hand carving and always dream of stumbling across the one per cent \u2013 more machine working, but we soon realised we the spoon forgotten at the back of someone\u2019s drawer. related to the older spoons far more. Antique love spoons are so infinitely variable. There\u2019s a very If you could go into any shop and buy 10 antique personal story connected to each one. love spoons at a bargain price, there would be no Traditionally they were made by a suitor for buzz. They\u2019re like pieces of lost treasure. You\u2019re his sweetheart, but if a girl accepted a spoon it holding in your hand a piece of Wales. didn\u2019t mean they were going to get married. They were more like Valentine\u2019s cards today. LEFT A fruitwood spoon, 1844, featuring a scratch-carved An unlucky guy might be making and three-mast sailing ship and an anchor pierced into the giving a lot of spoons, while a lucky girl handle, likely carved by a sailor while away at sea. might have plenty in her collection! A love spoon was a young man\u2019s CV. To HOW TO BUY give a spoon was to suggest that you could work hard to provide for and feed a Welsh Vernacular Antiques family. When they\u2019re stored in a drawer, antiques-atlas.com\/welshvernacularfurniture spoons nestle really closely together, so Instagram @welshvernacular the spoon represented closeness, too. The maker also carved extra messages Tim Bowen timbowenantiques.co.uk in the form of symbols. Hearts are an obvious one, but we also see keys and WHERE TO SEE keyholes representing security or the home, diamonds for wealth, chains for St Fagans National Museum of longevity or linking two people\u2026 there History museum.wales\/stfagans are lots! The joy of handling a spoon is partly in deciphering its puzzle. WHAT TO SPEND Jonathon was a Welsh harp maker for many years, so he looks at things from the On the rare occasions antique love spoons perspective of the carver. He thinks about come up for sale, they make upwards of how this guy chose a piece of wood and how he \u00a31,000. But a handmade spoon from the sat working on the spoon. In the 20th century, 1930s could be bought from a reputable dealer books were written about the symbols \u2013 the for under \u00a3100. Love spoons are still made by authors talked to elderly people about what craftspeople today using traditional techniques. they meant \u2013 but we\u2019ll never know why the An intricate piece commissioned from a carver chose them, or what was really in his champion carver is likely to cost \u00a3150 or more. February 2023 Homes & Antiques 87","","STAR SALES An inlaid marquetry chest of drawers, a Spode part dessert service and an extraordinary Iznik tile have all caught Caroline Wheater\u2019s eye 1. Treasure from Syria Estimate \u00a33,000\u2013\u00a34,000 Sold \u00a3114,400 Abidding war broke This tile, which would have \u2018The tile came from the out at Roseberys once adorned the exterior of collection of Hollywood costume last autumn when a high-status building, had a designer Anthony Powell (1935\u2013 a rare hexagonal typically Ottoman Cintamani 2021),\u2019 explains Alice. \u2018He was Damascus Iznik design of wavy lines and dots known as someone with a very tile, dating to the 16th century, in bold turquoise and black, good eye, which certainly played went up for auction in an Islamic with a transparent glaze. This a part in the tile\u2019s spectacular and Indian Arts sale. \u2018There\u2019s pattern symbolises the power of result.\u2019 Bidding online and over an incredible appetite in the art royalty and can also be found on the telephone was frenzied market for Iznik ceramics in Ottoman carpets. Only two other until the \u00a350,000 mark, after general \u2013 tiles and vessels \u2013 and tile examples are known \u2013 one a which three determined bidders they are considered one of the tile panel at the V&A in London, continued to do battle. \u2018I expected strongest categories in Islamic art, another a tile in New York\u2019s the tile to do well, but it exceeded holding their value consistently,\u2019 Brooklyn Museum \u2013 so this was a my hopes and was a wonderful says specialist and head of rare opportunity for a collector to highlight in a very strong sale.\u2019 department Alice Bailey. acquire something very special. roseberys.co.uk February 2023 Homes & Antiques 89","2 3 4 2. American Spode 3. Scottish Flair 4. Reading Corner Estimate $1,500\u2013$2,500 Estimate \u00a3700\u2013\u00a31,100 Estimate \u00a31,500\u2013\u00a32,000 Sold $6,300 Sold \u00a31,402 Sold \u00a35,200 A Spode pearlware part dessert These diamond and moonstone Library furniture of the 19th service flew out of Christie\u2019s New earrings, sold at Bonhams in century is solid and practical, ideal York when it went live online as Edinburgh, were surely bought as a for reading upon, as a mahogany part of the Ann & Gordon Getty love token. The pair of cooing birds framed sofa sold at Tennants Collection. The c1810 service were made in 2001 by Graham illustrates. Made for three people, decorated with pattern 3058 \u2013 a Leishman Stewart (1955\u20132020), the seating had been reupholstered fruiting grapevine design \u2013 was who worked in gold and silver at in light brown leather, with acquired from Graham & Oxley his studio and gallery in Dunblane Chesterfield-style buttoning, which Antiques in London in 1994 and and is regarded as one of the finest set off beautifully the conker- comprised a footed compote, silversmiths of his generation. One coloured, Regency-style legs. Some three shell-shaped dishes and 10 of his abstract silver sculptures is subtle carving was also apparent, dessert plates. The momentous on display in the main hall of the with a floral emblem and husks sale of more than 1,500 paintings, Scottish Parliament building. And decorating all three front legs. On antique furnishings, porcelain, from 1986 to 2018, when he became brass castors and measuring 176cm silver and textiles was divided into unwell, Stewart exhibited annually long by 74cm wide, the piece had a 10 auctions and made over $150m at Goldsmiths\u2019 Fair in London, little bit of damage to the wooden in total for the couple\u2019s charitable where his expressive claret jugs frame, but this didn\u2019t dampen foundation. christies.com took centre stage. bonhams.com buyers\u2019 enthusiasm. tennants.co.uk 90 Homes & Antiques February 2023","6 5 7 Sold prices quoted include buyer\u2019s premium and VAT 5. Dawn Chorus 6. Expertly Inlaid 7. Bear Necessity Estimate \u00a380\u2013\u00a3120 Estimate \u00a33,000\u2013\u00a35,000 Estimate \u00a3300\u2013\u00a3500 Sold \u00a31,250 Sold \u00a39,100 Sold \u00a31,690 A pair of Hungarian abstract bird A late 17th-century marquetry Few could resist the charms of this trays made in the 1960s \u2013 perhaps chest of drawers spiralled upwards beautiful wooden Bear and Cub to hold trinkets or playing cards at Sworders\u2019 Fine Interiors sale, on a patinated metal base when \u2013 were consigned to Chiswick beguiling bidders with its finely they came up for sale at Woolley Auctions Design & Interiors sale. inlaid surfaces. The four-drawer & Wallis. The 1930s Art Deco The chirpy chirrupers, probably walnut chest, each drawer with object was designed by Austrian designed by Judit N\u00e1dor, were a lockable escutcheon, was inlaid mastercraftsman Karl Hagenauer created for the Zsolnay porcelain with light and dark fruitwoods (1898\u20131956), the elder son of Carl, factory in the city of P\u00e9cs. Both depicting floral swags and urns who founded a well-regarded birds sported the iridescent green filled with flowers \u2013 highly skilled werkst\u00e4tte (craft workshop) in glaze developed by the company in cabinetry work that must have Vienna in 1898. When Karl joined the late 19th century and known as taken many months to complete. A the family business in 1918, aged 20, the \u2018Eosin technique\u2019 (named after little damage to the beading along he brought a new verve for design, Eos, the Greek goddess of dawn). the edge of the drawers meant creating lamps, candelabra and the N\u00e1dor designed in a Cubist style it was not in tip-top condition, whimsical animals for which he and had a penchant for animals, but even so it was a prize worth is especially loved. This piece was including horses, frogs, fish and fighting for. Fully restored, it could hotly contested by Hagenauer\/bear cockerels. chiswickauctions.co.uk be worth five figures. sworder.co.uk fans. woolleyandwallis.co.uk February 2023 Homes & Antiques 91","ASK AN EXPERT Our team answers your valuation and restoration questions... if you have a query, email us at [email protected] French fowl THIS as Les Animaliers created a tradition of MONTH\u2019S animal sculpture \u2013 your piece has evolved While clearing the house of a deceased EXPERTS from that movement. The sculptor has relative recently, I came across what played with the surface in a pleasing appears to be a cast bronze duck with Katherine way, contrasting textured areas with the some odd features. But it is beautiful and Wright smooth, burnished surface of the wings. I would love to know more. Senior specialist in You mention a hole in the duck\u2019s chest, It weighs almost 3kg, is 23cm long fine furniture, art but this seems an unlikely place for an from beak to tail, and stands 18cm high. incense stick. To me, it looks like a purely The metal is slightly coloured on the and European sculptural piece. The auction value is back and the surface is far from smooth. ceramics and glass likely to be under \u00a3300, but this could be One strange feature is a small hole in the at Lyon & Turnbull reviewed if the foundry and maker were centre of the chest, which goes right into identified. KW the body cavity. My guess would be that Steven Moore it\u2019s an incense burner, but I don\u2019t know Antiques dealer, Porcelain pals how it would work. Also, underneath auctioneer and is a larger hole with a rough wooden or Antiques Roadshow I wonder if you could identify the cork plug, which I took out to discover expert with a keen company who made these, and their a thickish layer of white powder inside. interest in ceramics possible age, please? They were bought Lastly is the mark under the chest, which from a charity shop by my eagle-eyed I\u2019ve no idea of the origins of \u2013 please help! ABOVE LEFT aunt and repaired by my late nan. Janet Dore-Worsam, via email Janet inherited I really cherish them and they are this bronze duck happily perched on top of my fireplace. I, too, am rather taken with your duck. with a number of Mora Pantrini, via email It\u2019s French, early 20th-century. The unusual features. seal-type mark on the base is a foundry BELOW Could If you were to ask Google (or other mark; I can see the word \u2018Fondeur\u2019, Chelsea be the available search engines) about this but unfortunately I\u2019ve not been able maker of this charming pair of sheep, each marked to identify it. charming pair? with a gold anchor, it would tell you that they\u2019re \u2018Chelsea Porcelain, Gold Anchor The plugged hole is a casting hole. The period, about 1760\u2019. But are they? piece was made using a method called \u2018lost-wax casting\u2019, in which the core is Sadly not, and here\u2019s why: the colours filled with sand or grit. It is the residue are just too bright (look at the orange), of this that you have found inside. In the gilding too flat, and the porcelain 19th-century France, sculptors known itself is just too shiny and glassy and too icy-white for Chelsea. They are, in fact, German copies, which we would politely call \u2018after an 18th-century model\u2019. Not fakes, per se, but lookalikes made in the 1880s when collecting 18th- century porcelain was the height of fashion. I know you treasure them, which makes them pearls beyond price, but taking the repair into consideration, these delightful sheep are worth around the \u00a320\u2013\u00a330 mark for the pair. 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The resulting space is a unique blend that combines the pair\u2019s style with the Georgian- inspired cabinetry and Arts and Crafts ethos that underlie the Huckleberry brand. The new range of House of Hackney paint and tiles complete the look, while Huckleberry\u2019s scullery bench has been given an H of H twist, including a decorative frieze that\u2019s echoed in the cooker hood, where it\u2019s finished with turned oak acorn finials. huckleberryhome.co.uk 94 Homes & Antiques February 2023","Easy fix TAKE A PEW Finding the perfect letterbox for your Church pews make excellent bench seating, providing a front door is easy \u2013 fitting it may not be refined and versatile addition to kitchens, dining rooms so straightforward. For anyone seeking or hallways. 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We look at common issues and ways to address them\u2026 The architectural flourish of interior CLOCKWISE cornicing dates back to the FROM ABOVE Ancient Greeks and remains Artisan Plastercraft can a popular aesthetic touch replicate and replace badly today; a means of elegantly concealing the join between damaged or missing sections of wall and ceiling. Modern cornices tend to cornicing in their workshops; they be fairly plain, but many period homes still made plaster mouldings to match showcase their original ornate (enriched) existing decorative plaster work mouldings. Wear and tear to any kind of cornicing really draws the eye and should be at the German Embassy in London; repairing damaged addressed as soon as possible, to prevent any cornices on-site. problems from getting worse. \u2018The most common source of damage to old cornice is moisture,\u2019 says Russell Brewis of cornice experts Artisan Plastercraft. \u2018This can be dampness over time, or a water episode such as a flood or burst pipe. Old cornice can also be compromised by sustained vibrations and\/or damage caused by DIY or other building work.\u2019 Water staining, cracks and thick layers of paint that obscure the detail of the plasterwork are visible signs that your cornicing needs attention, but which repairs should you tackle yourself and which should you leave to the experts? It largely depends on your own level of skill and confidence, but there are certainly some issues that can be tackled by DIY-savvy homeowners. \u2018Layers of paint can be removed by anyone with some dexterity and lots of time,\u2019 suggests John Gallacher of Halcyon Ornamental Plasterers Ltd, \u2018though in 45 years I\u2019ve witnessed only two ornamental ceilings that the owners completely cleaned of paint. Both were excellent, but took hundreds of man hours.\u2019 In both these cases, small 96 Homes & Antiques February 2023","Artisan Plastercraft steam tools were used. Some people opt for paint- Restore & Renovate stripping solutions, but John isn\u2019t a fan: \u2018In my view they create more damage and aren\u2019t fit for purpose.\u2019 HOW I DID IT\u2026 Small cracks and chips can be worth a DIY effort Matthew Rose undertook DIY cornice repairs too \u2013 carefully make the area smooth, chiselling while working on his period home renovation away rough edges and sanding gently. Apply filler and smooth it over, ensuring you don\u2019t overload it. The cornicing in our house is original Victorian, Then make sure the area is clean and fully dry but a previous owner had covered the entire before painting it. end walls of several bedrooms in huge fitted Russell agrees that superficial decoration wardrobes. Thankfully, they hadn\u2019t removed the of cornicing is straightforward to tackle, but cornicing, but it had been damaged in several recommends that any cracks should be investigated places, with small cracks and dings where it had before repairs or redecoration are undertaken. \u2018If been bashed around over the years, and some there is evidence of damp, water staining, cracks was covered in thick paint that was flaking away or detached cornice pieces, it is advisable to seek the guidance of an expert,\u2019 he adds. \u2018It\u2019s especially and had to be removed. important in the case of listed buildings.\u2019 We tackled the prep work and repaired the cracks In situations of severe damage or where listed and smaller areas of damage ourselves: once buildings are concerned, professionals will be able we\u2019d removed the wardrobes, old layers of paint to help. Specialists in decorative plaster can ensure on the cornicing had to be painstakingly chipped existing mouldings are faithfully replicated, and as away by hand to minimise damage to the original enriched cornice mouldings are harder to work with plasterwork underneath. Once we were back to than plain ones, these will benefit from expert care. \u2018If the original plaster, we carefully raked out and a cornice is enriched, we take samples of enrichments cleaned up the cracks and damaged areas before and ornament, then clean these samples back to lightly sanding the entire cornicing. We then used their original unpainted state and form new silicone a lightweight filler to make the necessary repairs. moulds to replicate and fit, so that the end result Once the lengthy prep process was finished, we looks exactly as it did the day the original work used a distemper paint to topcoat and allow the was completed,\u2019 explains John. 120-year-old plasterwork to breathe after years of emulsion, gloss and eggshell. Essential tools included a small leaf trowel to apply filler in hard-to-reach areas, and Gyproc Easifill 60 for the repairs \u2013 probably not a \u2018traditional\u2019 fix, but it\u2019s super-lightweight, easy to apply and sand, and gives an excellent smooth finish. Some of the cornicing did require professionals \u2013 areas of more significant damage were beyond our DIY skill level, and a local company (kentmouldings.co.uk) did a fantastic job. If you take on DIY cornice repairs you\u2019ll need lots of patience. Good prep work, taking it back to bare plaster and starting from scratch are essential to ensure the cornicing will last another 100-plus years! It took a lot of time, but the results are worth it. See more of Matthew\u2019s renovation on Instagram @thedetachedvictorian USEFUL CONTACTS Halcyon Ornamental Plasterers Ltd Ornamental plasterwork, restoration and conservation firm based in Glasgow. halcyoncornice.co.uk Artisan Plastercraft Decorative plaster, mouldings and lime plastering specialists based in Kent. artisanplastercraft.com February 2023 Homes & Antiques 97","T R AVE L ROOMS FOR ROMANCE this Valentine\u2019s Day, TRAVEL NEWS, six of the best CHOCOLATE SHOPS, plus FAIRS AND AUCTIONS Think of a romantic weekend away and what comes to mind? Candlelit dinners? Roll-top baths? Open fires? We have all of those (and more) covered in this month\u2019s feature on Valentine\u2019s escapes across the UK, including one of the largest (and surely most beautiful) four-posters in the country, installed resplendently in the Catherine of Aragon Tower Suite at Thornbury Castle (pictured). 98 Homes & Antiques February 2023","Travel THE WILD SIDE Shipshape Lodgings A handy gift for lovers of folklore and the outdoors, glamping company Canopy & Recently opened on Stars\u2019 new Wild Cards fuse ancient lore the water\u2019s edge at with natural history. Prompts such as \u2018a historic Priddy\u2019s Hard in flower\u2019s fragrance is not for itself\u2019 help Hampshire, Adventure readers pause, reflect and connect with Prospect is a former nature, and each set of cards has been \u2018shifting house\u2019, built beautifully designed by illustrator Sophy in 1899 to house naval munitions workers. Hollington. \u00a315. canopyandstars.co.uk Fresh from a renovation by the Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust, it now serves as a smart two-bedroom holiday cottage with direct access to the water. airbnb.co.uk ANGLO-SAXON HERITAGE In the 1950s, archaeologists discovered the summer palace of the 7th-century Northumbrian kings and queens at Yeavering. Built during an Anglo-Saxon \u2018Golden Age\u2019, the site has nevertheless remained relatively unknown \u2013 until now. This month, Ad Gefrin opens in nearby Wooler, a visitor attraction (and whisky distillery) that aims to champion its story. adgefrin.co.uk Words: Rhiannon Batten Snowdrop Festival Images: Anthony Baggett\/Getty Images; Sally Ann Norman Known as the \u2018Snowdrop King\u2019, pioneering 19th-century galanthophile James Allen was born in Shepton Mallet. Now volunteers plant bulbs around the Somerset town each autumn, ready for its annual Snowdrop Festival (13th\u201319th February), when visitors can buy from specialist growers or visit local gardens and woods in bloom. sheptonsnowdrops.org.uk February 2023 Homes & Antiques 99",""]