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Farrow & Ball recommended exterior colour schemes

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Farrow & Ball partners with the Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex

Farrow & Ball is delighted to announce its partnership with the Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, the famous home of the Bloomsbury Group. We have created a bespoke paint colour, ‘Bloomsbury Blue Gray’ to support the recent restoration work at the house and we will also be supporting two public events at Charleston this year. Click here for more information on our collaboration with Charleston and to learn more about the forthcoming events.

Photo by Tony Tree © The Charleston Trust

ASHBOURNE ARTS 1999-2009

The small market town of Ashbourne is situated at the southern end of the beautiful Derbyshire Dales and is locally known as the gateway to Dovedale.  Its population, slightly more than 7000, serves the outlying areas of the southern Dales and parts of the Staffordshire Moorlands and East Staffordshire.  Its rural situation is attractive to tourists, but potentially isolating for local communities.

The Ashbourne Arts steering group came together as a result of the enthusiasm of members of the Ashbourne Youth and Adult Community Centre Management Committee, local artists, craftspeople and people from the communities surrounding Ashbourne.  Its original directors and members, largely unchanged today still perform their roles in a voluntary capacity, a unique situation for a festival of this size within the East Midlands.

The members of the steering group of Ashbourne Arts represent a remarkably diverse range of talents, but all possess a desire to see art and culture in the area flourish, primarily through the medium of an annual festival, which aims to encourage community focus and generate interest from both the local population and visitors alike.

Ashbourne Arts and Ashbourne Festival are celebrating their tenth anniversary in 2009. Ashbourne Arts is now a Charitable Company whose primary function is to organise a two-week long Festival during June and July each year.  The Festival continues to grow in stature, now attracting support from major funders and internationally known performers to this charming rural area.  But not forgetting its community origins, it continues to provide for the cultural needs of the town and surrounding area.

Visit www.ashbournefestival.org for more information.

New Life for Old Tools

The gardener’s perennial dilemma - what to do with tools that are too broken to use but too good to throw away - is solved at a stroke by Tools Shed, The Conservation Foundation’s garden tool recycling project.

All those spades, forks, trowels, shears and hoes that lie at the back of the shed waiting to be fixed on a rainy day are repaired in the workshops of HM Prison Wandsworth, contributing to prisoners’ training and rehabilitation, and then given to London schools for their gardens.

Rocking Horse Restoration - Antique Toy Repair

Robert Mullis Restoration Services Ltd is able to offer repairs to soft toys and wooden toys, as well as to rocking horses of all types, whether wooden, skin or fabric-covered.

Please review their website and feel free to contact them for information or an estimate for restoring your cherished toy.

Robert Mullis Restoration Services Ltd, founded by Robert Mullis himself, is a small company specialising in the restoration of toys. For more information visit www.restorationservices.co.uk

 

Win A £25 Period Features Voucher!

This month we are giving away a £25 Voucher to spend on any of our lovely products, redeemable in store or online. Just answer one simple question and after the closing date of 31st July 2009, we will pick the winner at random from all the entries received.

To enter please take a look at our Door Knockers which can be found in our Period Hardware section then just answer the following question: Our bronze ram’s head knocker is a stunning reproduction of a design from which period? Email the answer to us at [email protected]. Good luck!

The lucky winner of our April/May competition, receiving a £25.00 voucher, was Fiona Waterworth. Many thanks to all of you who entered.

Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair (5-14 June),

Now in its 36th year, the is the essential art and antiques event in London
for over 30,000 private buyers, curators, interior designers and devotees from around the world taking place in June 2009.

Housed in Olympia’s magnificent Grand Hall, the annual June Fair is the largest, and only truly international Fine Art and Antiques Fair in London, offering an unparalleled variety of world class art and antiques for sale.

Over 260 of the world's most prestigious British and international galleries will exhibit an extraordinary selection of unique pieces, ranging from ancient Chinese ceramics to Art Deco jewellery, 20th century Design Classics, Old Master paintings
and a diverse range of furniture from English formal, oak and country to painted and Continental.

Each object on sale has been carefully vetted by a team of 200 experts.

Visit www.olympiaartsinternational.com for more details.