House and Garden May 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

ALICIA TAYLOR Photographer At the age of 11, Alicia Taylor picked up her grandfather’s camera and she has been taking photographs ever since. She splits her time between London and Melbourne, where she lives in a converted factory, with two garden balconies overflowing with ‘olive trees, herbs, jasmine, bougainvillea and a flowering gum tree’. Photographers Olive Cotton and Bill Henson have influenced Alicia, largely for their ‘appreciation of light’. Alicia shot this month’s cover story, the south-London home of interior designer Gytha Nuttall on page 100. JAMES HUNIFORD Interior designer It’s always intriguing to peer behind the doors of an interior designer’s own home, to see their aesthetic and know-how in its fullest and most personal expression. James Huniford’s nineteenth-century house in the Hamptons neatly encapsulates this idea on page 120. James, who is a…

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SPECIAL FEATURES

EDITOR’S LETTER

We rarely see the ‘before’ of the houses we feature, bar the odd shot taken on the owner or designer’s iPhone that is not hugely enlightening. But, as soon as I saw the photographs we were to publish of the eighteenth-century house in Ludlow, featured on pages 108 to 113, I knew I had been to this house and seen the ‘before’ for myself. Fifteen years ago, I spent a week shadowing the interior designer Edward Bulmer, who specialises in period interior decoration, at his HQ in Herefordshire. My week included – as well as the requisite filing and a research trip to Hereford archives – lunch with some of Edward’s clients at their handsome house in Ludlow. It was this very same house. The then owners, in their eighties,…

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DECORATION

Decorator’s notebook

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DECORATION

TWO IN ONE

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DECORATION

State of play

MODELS: GABBY DEEMING; VIOLA LANARI; BONNIE ROBINSON…

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DECORATION

DESIGN IDEAS GARDEN ROOMS

added insight THE SETTING ➤ Choose a structure that is appropriate to the style and size of your garden, as well as the architectural style of the house. ➤ A proper pathway leading to the building is a good idea. ➤ If you have the space, add a gravel, decked or brick terrace, and soften the structure with surrounding planting. ➤ Consider giving it a ‘living’ green roof. This will help insulate the structure, keeping it warm in winter and cool in summer. Good insulation will also help acoustics and ensure neighbours aren’t bothered by telephone conversations and music. Clare Foster, House & Garden garden editor sun SEEKER Creative sheds have a long and distinguished history. Virginia Woolf wrote in a shed, as did Roald Dahl and Dylan Thomas. When Paul Smith commissioned furniture designer NATHALIE DE LEVAL…

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