The English Home January 2023

There is much to celebrate as we put this special edition of The English Home together for you. 2022 has been a year of immense creativity and innovation for the interiors industry, despite the challenges of world events, and we’ve been exploring the finest products, most exciting launches and noteworthy designers of the past 12 months to mark these achievements with our New Year Honours Awards. We hope you enjoy our curation of standout pieces and make some new discoveries reading the results on page 81. At the end of a busy year for all, we are also looking forward to preparing our homes to spend the festive season with our loved ones. In this issue, you’ll find ideas and inspiration for the last-minute additions that make celebrations special and guests…

SPOTLIGHT ON… Toast To The Host With friends and family visiting over the festive season, a sleek bar cart makes a stylish statement while the host or hostess makes drinks for their guests. This brass beauty from Soho Home (pictured above) was inspired by the vintage drinks trollies found in Soho House venues around the world, and perfectly showcases different beverages for guests to peruse. Both beautiful and useful, it holds various shapes and sizes of elegant cut glasses, barware such as an ice bucket and cocktail shaker, and finishing touches like citrus wedges, twists of orange peel, cinnamon sticks for mulled wine and olives for martinis. Whether serving cocktails or mocktails, champagne or sparkling water, the flexibility of a moving bar means it can be tucked away between guests and rolled out…

DAINTY BAUBLES Whether searching for a new decoration to add to the Christmas collection this year or seeking something a little different for a New Year’s party centrepiece, these glass baubles bring a mood of promise with graceful snowdrop flowers set inside. Snowdrop glass baubles, set of four, £29.95, Sarah Raven MIDNIGHT TOAST Add to the build up on New Year’s Eve with special tableware. These elegant glasses have a classic design to match with different types of serving sets for occasions throughout the year. St Tropez champagne glasses, set of four, £49, ProCook LIGHT SHOW Bejewelled with red berries, these fairy lights could be used for all kinds of festive displays. Battery operated, the lights can be arranged along the Christmas table, wound with a natural garland down the banister, used in rooms lacking…

Gold Linen napkin, £80; Jacques Gold leather napkin ring, £75, both Katharine Pooley Veloce champagne glasses, £62.50 for a set of two, Riedel…

TIMELESS DESIGN Lefroy Brooks, manufacturer of classic British bathrooms, has luxury brassware, sanitaryware and accessories with styles as varied as the Edwardian turn of the 1900s range, the 1930s Art Deco collection, the glamorous black lacquer of the 1940s and the 1950s collection which evokes the streamlined style of American automobiles. New to the series is the 1900 Classic in the Old Apothecary, a fresh take on the brand’s signature range, (particularly striking in polished brass) with the Charterhouse pedestal basin (above) and the exposed riser shower in silver nickel. lefroybrooks.com MUST-HAVE Sleep aficionados all know about the good night’s rest guaranteed with a Naturalmat mattress, so it will come as no surprise that the company, which also makes beds and bedding, now supplies mattresses to some of the best hotels in the…