Tatler May Issue
FROM HIS FLOWER-FILLED ROOM AT ETON TO TANGIER AT THE HEIGHT OF HIPPIE CHIC, ART COLLECTOR AND ‘KING OF CHELSEA’ CHRISTOPHER GIBBS WAS THE SIXTIES. NOW, A NEW BOOK CHARTS THE EVOLUTION OF HIS IMPECCABLE EYE
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Book launch November 25, 2024
Photos by Hubert Cecil @hubertcecil
Richard Lofthouse for the Oxford Alumni couldn’t have written a more generous review for renowned artist Francis Hamel’s new book The Oxford Paintings.
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A review of 2024’s most luxurious gifts designed and created by the world’s leading 5-star hotels, which include High Spirits our book on glamorous, elegant cocktails, published in association with Cobblers Cove Hotel, Barbados.
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Ultimate Library have selected Clive Nichols’ Brilliant English Gardens to be in their Top 10 landscape books this month.
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Read Milieu Magazine’s review of Clive Nichols’ Brilliant English Gardens on their website.
Congratulations to Shane Connolly, author of A Year in Flowers and Discovering the Meaning of Flowers, for designing and co-ordinating the flowers at Westminster for the Coronation of their majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
This weeks ‘Anthophile’ is Clive Nichols. in this quick fire Q&A Clive reveals all from his favourite flowers, to a typical day-in-the-life and what he would’ve been in another life.
In his book Brilliant English Gardens, photographer Clive Nichols showcases everything from stunning country estates to romantic cottage gardens. In this extract, he looks at Ulting Wick in the Essex countryside. Planted with swathes of vibrant tulips, it’s guaranteed to lift the heart.
Read Helen Bonthrone’s article HERE
Read Midland History’s glowing review of New Hall by Kate Holt by clicking here.
Listen back to Sarah Barclay, author of Eden’s Keepers, chat on BBC Radio Essex about Nancy Tennant and the WI, helping out with the ‘Essex Quest’ show.
Read the review of Brilliant English Gardens in the Listed Property Owners Club, Listed Heritage.
“Eden’s Keepers is the interesting and beautiful story of two people, Nancy Tennant and Humphrey Waterfield, and two gardens, Hill Pasture in Essex and Le Clos du Peyronnet in Menton, France. An interesting and touching story.”
“The Gardens at Rousham deal with a single garden. The artist Francis Hamel has lived at Rousham for twenty five years and has painted views of the garden through the seasons over these years. His paintings are accommpanied by essays from some of England’s best gardener designers. It my opinion Rousham is a magical place; the greatest example of design genius in England and the book does justice to the gardens!”
“Brilliant English Gardens is a large-format hardback volume covering twenty seven of the very best of English gardens, each with a single page of description followed by up to ten pages of Clive Nichols’ photographs printed full-page size – brilliant, beautiful, sumptuous!”
Clive Nichols’ Brilliant English Gardens features in Constance Craig Smith’s gardening book roundup of the year.
Before Clive Nichols was joined by Alistair Baldwin at his signing of Brilliant English Gardens at York Gate, Clive and Alistair caught up with editor of the Yorkshire Times, Andrew Palmer, for an exclusive interview.
For anyone seeking some timely Christmas present inspiration, head on over to York Gate in Leeds on Friday 2 December when the eminent Yorkshire-based garden designer Alistair Baldwin will join Clive Nichols, one of the world’s leading garden photographers, to sign copies of the new book, Brilliant English Gardens. Click here to read the full pre-event article.