When you’re setting up a new home, after your first starter property and now well into making it a proper home, your style tends to change and a different set of values sets in. I can think here of a…
Social History & A Lesson Art Deco Styling
I have a really beautiful big book published last year by the major heritage property charity. I was visiting one of their places up in the peak district and as is my want, I was happily mooching about in the…
Art Deco Designs Are Worlds Apart From Stark Modern
Some of the furniture designs today do look rather plain and clumpy. I have been checking out sideboards and dining sets, with a view to a change round. The tables on offer all seem to be various shades of oak…
Great Aunt’s Hotel Yields Art Deco Delights
I recently had the joy of taking an aged relative off for a birthday weekend in a swish hotel in town. Her family contributed to this enterprise and as I am the most mobile and flexible with time, I offered…
Holiday Cottage Proves An Art Deco Delight
I recently returned from a helter skelter kind of exciting holiday down in the south west – a cottage break with several family members and a handful of puppy dogs. It was full on for the first half of the…
Keeping True To Design Forms A Museum Piece
On a trip to the Peak district a few weeks ago, I was blessed with the opportunity to visit a gorgeous house that stood out from the rest of the village – which being a walkers’ paradise was made up…
Searching For That Pre Loved Art Deco
Whilst watching a recent episode of a well known antique and collectibles programme, I wondered how many things are still out there being described as ‘found in local car boot’ or had been tossed in a skip. With the rise…
Local Art Deco Gem Standing Proud
I have recently visited a really famous house in the east midlands area. It is situated near an extremely busy road network through a major county town and it’s amazing no damage seems to have befallen it so far. Being…
Deco Bungalow New To Market Causes A Stir
On the outskirts of this town with its roots firmly in the industrial period, it’s sometimes hard to find attractive property. The centre of the town itself consists of a none too distinguished High Street with lots of smaller shops…
When Art Deco Was Still The New Idea
There are some really beautiful old houses in my nec of the woods. The styles are very varied, with it being a very industrial area historically. However, before the heady days of full employment of the masses in the shoe…