House and Garden July 2022

CHRISTABEL CHUBB / HOUSE & GARDEN FEATURES ASSISTANT ‘I knew I wanted to work for House & Garden from the age of 14, when I was given a subscription for Christmas,’ says Christabel. After graduating from the University of Bristol in 2018 with a degree in French and Italian, she worked in a west London lifestyle boutique, until she found her place at House & Garden in 2019 as the editor’s PA. She has been the features assistant since January 2022. Christabel says she loves the fact that ‘no two days are the same’ and finds herself constantly inspired by the ‘hard-working and interesting people’ who surround her. For this month’s issue, she has explored the various ways of using lacquer and its less traditional alternative, gloss paint, in ‘Design Ideas’…

‘Summer arrives like a tide in full force,’ writes Dan Pearson in the final part of our series on his beautiful hillside garden in Somerset, in which he very lyrically and generously tells the story of the development of a plot of nearly 20 acres and his life there with his partner, Huw Morgan, as it evolves through the seasons (from page 122). These words resonate as I write this, having just arrived back from a picnic on the balmiest latespring – even early-summer day – in North Yorkshire, during which a friend pointed out that in the three or so hours we’d been there, the leaves on the hawthorn we were sitting under had emerged from their buds. I’m going to miss this series, but photographer Eva Nemeth’s images of…

JEAN-BAPTISTE GUITON; BONETTI MARGHERITA; TIM EDWARDS; JONATHAN BOND; YESHEN VENEMA; KIP DAWKINS…

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