House and Garden August 2015

House & Garden unlocks the door to an array of unique homes and outdoor features, ranging from town houses and converted barns to fabulous modern apartments and island retreats. Outdoor features are equally varied, including cottage gardens, water gardens and chic, city courtyards. House & Garden provides an invaluable sourcebook of ideas, from design and decoration to the best of travel, delicious recipes and fine wine. Britain’s most glamorous, inspiring and influential design and decoration magazine.

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CONTRIBUTORS

Q What is it about Kenya that keeps you going back? ‘Kenya’s troubled in so many ways, but it remains one of the most ravishingly beautiful countries on earth. Nowhere can match the concentration of wildlife and with such a backdrop as the Maasai Mara: rolling savannah, lonely acacia and sharp river bends.’ From her base in West Dorset in an old farmhouse with ‘a bit of a gypsy mix’, Sophy Roberts flies out to destinations around the world to write for a wealth of travel publications. For House & Garden, she’s travelled on foot through the Vikos Gorge in Greece, discovered the coves of Belle-Île-en-Mer in France and, this month, she takes to the Maasai Mara in Kenya with her sons to experience magnificent isolation on safari (page 130). Q Describe…

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EDITOR’S LETTER

People’s immediate response when I tell them that I work at House & Garden – I’ve been here for nearly nine years – is that it must be fun to be able to ‘nosy around’ people’s houses. Yes, of course it is. I’m always keen to see what people have done, whether it is simple and understated or daring and bold. In this issue, I have been lucky enough to step inside two of the interiors we feature and they are very different. If I was to choose where I’d want to live, I have to admit I can imagine myself in Lisa Gulick’s wonderfully airy kitchen, shown from page 90, more than in the super-smart flat by Anthony Collett, shown from page 84. In fact, I’d give my eye…

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Decorator’s notebook

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Two tribes

Frame ‘Le Temps Du Reve’, linen, £153.60, from Pierre Frey. Shield ‘Diamond’ (creamsicle), by Clare Frost, cotton/linen, £127.20, from Studio Four NYC. Head ‘African Masque’, by Clarence House, linen, £255.60, from Turnell & Gigon. Chest ‘Bamako’ (noir/ecru), by Georges Le Manach, cotton mix, £234, from Claremont. Arms ‘Java’ (eggplant), linen, £154, from George Smith for Raoul Textiles. Legs ‘Tasmania’ (ebene), linen mix, £225.60, from Pierre Frey. Feet ‘Ijoba’ (orange), cotton, £79, from Eva Sonaike. Background ‘Tatami India Matting’, reed, 122cm wide, £175, from Linney Cooper. All prices per metre Frame ‘Adras Ikat Print’(jewel), by Schumacher, cotton, £252.40, from Turnell & Gigon. Shield ‘Pemba’ (lapis), linen/cotton, £127, from Ralph Lauren Home. Head ‘African Masque’, by Clarence House, linen, £255.60, from Turnell & Gigon. Chest ‘Theodore’ (evergreen), by Martyn Lawrence Bullard, linen, £212,…

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Hanging around

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Garden structure

POLES IN ONE A minimalist garden is the perfect place to make a modern statement. The meandering stainless-steel design in this upstate New York garden, by Reed Hilderbrand, is as much a piece of garden sculpture as a fence. Similar one-metre-high stainless-steel rods cost £ 10.76 each from metals4u.co.uk.reedhilderbrand.com added insight COLOUR Garden designer George Carter gives us his recommendations for painted fences: 'Green Smoke' (above left) by Farrow & Ball ù a good colour for outdoors as it doesn't fight with green phnting. I tend to use muted shades such as 'French Gray', abo by Farrow & Ball, but some good brights are 'Arsenic', a vivid green, and 'Gervase Yellow' (above right). All£53for 2.5 litres full gbss. farrow-ball.com VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE With its diamond fretwork and decorative finials, the bridge at Woolbeding House in…

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