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The Homebuilding & Renovating Show Visits Newbury
The Newbury Homebuilding & Renovating Show at the Newbury Showground on 23rd and 24th June is a must for homeowners wishing to source the right products and services to convert, extend, renovate or build their house.
If you are motivated to create a dream home that reflects your personality, the Newbury Homebuilding & Renovating Show offers a one-stop shopping opportunity as the Show plays host to over 120 exhibitors and offers a wealth of advice and information from the experts, to enable you to find the right products and services.
Worried about finance or how to assess a property’s potential? These are just two of the subjects covered in the comprehensive programme of free seminars running every day of the show. Tickets are issued on a first-come-first-served basis, so get there early to avoid disappointment.
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The Definitive Show For Stylish Living
The Daily Telegraph/House & Garden Fair 2007 at Olympia from Wednesday 27th to Saturday 30th June 2007, is one of the UK’s most prestigious events for interior and garden design.
The Fair brings you an unprecedented line up of exhibitors all carefully handpicked by House & Garden to ensure the highest quality products, from bathrooms to bedrooms, gourmet food to garden furniture, most of which you will not find on the High Street.
For anyone passionate about interiors and gardens, the Fair is an excellent opportunity to see the very latest classic and contemporary designs from many of the country’s most prominent designers; with numerous interactive seminars and talks going on throughout the Fair, visitors can gather a whole host of expert tips and advice to take home with them.
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Chesney’s New Collection of Californian Firedogs
Chesney’s has introduced a unique and striking new collection of Californian firedogs: Santa Cruz (featured), Eureka, Ventura, Carmel and Monterey.
The traditional role of a firedog is to support and lift the fire basket and though functional it is also ornamental, which helps make the fireplace a focal point in the room.
Made in cast iron and patinated bronze, the Californian firedogs are a bold departure from the style and material of most English firedogs, which are usually very traditional and fashioned in 16th and 17th century style.
Read more about : Fireplaces, Heating & Fireplaces, Ornaments
Royal Copenhagen’s Fungi Flora Danica Collection
Royal Copenhagen has introduced a new Fungi Flora Danica Collection. This is the first time since 1790 that the painters at Royal Copenhagen have painted an individual collection of fungi motifs on the gilt-edged porcelain.
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The magnificent Common Puffball stands proudly in shades of café au lait on the shiny white porcelain, so true to nature that you can almost smell the mossy forest floor and feel the thrill of finding mushrooms in the countryside.
The botanical accuracy and precise reproduction of the flora has ensured that Flora Danica porcelain is world famous. The painter’s personal enthusiasm and artistic skill give the motif depth and fine nuances, so that it seems to rise expressively in three dimensions from the surface of the plate.
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The colours used for the series of 26 motifs of fungi were determined autocratically by nature, with browns and greys, white, fiery reds and a few purple shades among the golden hues of the forest floor. The result is striking, uncompromising and alluring.
This new Flora Danica collection of fungi is available in a set of twelve dinner plates with different motifs, twelve deep plates with twelve more motifs, and two oval dishes. Altogether twenty-six different fungal motifs have been selected and they can also be bought individually. The plates are available either with or without the exclusive lace edge.
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Inspiration At The RHS Flower Show Tatton Park
Dramatic floral art, rare varieties and award-winning stands will provide visitors with gardening inspiration in abundance at this year’s RHS Flower Show, set in the glorious grounds of Tatton Park estate in Cheshire from 18th to 22nd July. (18th July reserved for RHS members)
The show’s timing at the very climax of summer always makes it a very colourful affair, not least because of the RHS Ball Colegrave National Flower Bed Competition, which is always popular as UK local authorities and colleges showcase their innovative bedding.
The relaxed atmosphere also extends to the astonishing number of herb gardens on the menu at Tatton; for instance, ‘Thyme and Money’ and ‘Living Medicine’, which investigate herbal philosophies, and those that encourage others to enjoy the simple pleasures of growing herbs at home, such as Jacqui Brocklehurst, who intends to hold a ‘Herbal Tea Party’.
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New Meissen Fine Porcelain Collection For Spring
The Cornflower pattern combined with the successful Waves shape is part of the new tableware collection from Meissen this spring.
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The cornflower’s special charm derives from the Romantic Movement, in which the blue flower symbolises the longing for love and eternity.
Holger Schill, Meissen’s head of floral painting, has captured shades of blue in summer meadows beautifully in the brushwork.
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The service, which is available as a dinner service as well as coffee and tea service, looks fresh and spring like on the table and also looks spectacular when used together with the Poppy service launched last year, which is the same shape..
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All Meissen porcelain is hand-painted by skilled craftsmen, just as it has been ever since porcelain was first re-invented at Meissen in 1710.
Retail price from £155.00
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Web: http://www.meissen.com
Tel: (020) 7589 0128
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Father’s Day Treat for Dad From Rococo Chocolates
If your Dad loves chocolate and wine, give him a special day to remember this year, by booking a tasting session at the Rococo chocolate factory with Chantal Coady and wine guru Neil Courtier.
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Neil Courtier will introduce the concept of tasting wines with food, more specifically Chocolate; Dad will then have the opportunity to taste five specially selected wines along with ten delicious chocolates from the Rococo range.
Chantal will present information on the chocolates as to why they go well with a particular wine, while Neil will teach the session and provide fascinating background details on the wines.
The workshop is designed to offer some innovative ideas to dispel the myth that wine cannot be enjoyed with chocolate.
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The tasting will take place at the Rococo chocolate factory on 16th June and there are two sessions at 2.30 pm and 5.30pm; each session is priced at £50.00 per person.
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Book now to avoid disappointment by contacting Raffaella Baruzz on:
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Spring Has Sprung At ILVA!
Spring has arrived and ILVA the new Danish home furnishing store has launched its spring / summer 2007 collection, with a huge range of stunning, quality furniture.
With the lighter, brighter days here at last, it’s time to consider refreshing our home’s interior, not just the wardrobe!
Updating the theme and style of your home has never been easier with ILVA’s affordable prices – for example:
Read more about : Dining Room Furniture, Dining Tables, Home Interiors, Sofas, Vases
Royal Copenhagen’s Innovative New Contrast Cup
Hard porcelain meets soft silicone in Royal Copenhagen’s new Contrast cup, which is, quite deliberately, both traditional and innovative – the fluted porcelain dating back to 1775, while silicone is a new material for the porcelain factory.
The Contrast cup has been developed in cooperation with industrial designer Hans Christian Gjedde and more pieces will be added to the range in 2008.
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With this new item Royal Copenhagen is appealing to a young, urbane audience that signals personality through colour choice in the home.
The generous size of the cup contrasts with the subdued pastels and masculine meets feminine, when black and amethyst are put on the table together:
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The Emerald Green cup is just right for mint tea, while Anthracite Black is the perfect match for a laptop.
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Simply Beautiful New Glass Vases From Rosendahl
Rosendahl is launching three new vases in their popular Filigran range designed by Lin Utzon, which are unlike anything she has ever created before.
Her hallmark has always been flowers and garlands intertwined in discreet or milky-white sand-blasted patterns.
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However, these new hand-blown Filigran vases, have nothing “filigree†about them, as they have no pattern whatsoever and portray only simplicity itself, with elegant form and colour.
Lin Utzon’s latest artistry in glassware is in the darkest, deepest black, the most elegant imaginable ivory and the most exquisite shade of white; three classic illustrations of the assertion that “you’ll never believe how beautiful colours can be until you have seen them with your own eyesâ€.
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