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Thursday, 17 June 2021, 11:15 am A ground-breaking new book, The Soils of Aotearoa New Zealand, will launch during the joint New Zealand-Australia soils conference on Monday 28 June at the University of Waikato. Professor David Lowe from Te Aka Mātuatua - School of Science at University of Waikato, taken by Victoria Baskin Coffey. Published as part of the World Soils Book Series by Springer, the book is the first of its kind to be released in almost three decades, says one of its co-authors, University of Waikato soil scientist Professor David Lowe. An engaging and detailed book, it builds on the widely used title,
This Apartment in a McKim, Mead & White Building Only Gets Better With Age Designer Julie Hillman’s refresh of a landmarked Manhattan maisonette is a master class in living with history. By Vanessa Lawrence and Produced by Cynthia Frank Jun 4, 2021 Simon Upton The challenges of renovating a historic property are myriad. Do you restore it to a mirror image of its past self? Must the furnishings be period? How do you impart your own aesthetic identity on someone else’s? For Julie Hillman, the answer to the latter question is simple: You tread lightly and thoughtfully. “I’m not going to be the designer who changes [a] historical space it’s just not what I’m about,” says Hillman, a New York–based designer who recently overhauled this Beaux Arts Fifth Avenue home. “I don’t need to put my mark on something that’s been around forever and is spectacular as it stands.”
To Keep His D.C. Townhouse Fresh, This Design Titan Breaks All the Rules Darryl Carter shows that age is only a number when it comes to your home. By Lois Romano Jennifer Hughes In the middle of Darryl Carter’s comfortable family room sits a hornet’s nest displayed in a case like a priceless heirloom. While not quite what one might anticipate from one of the most successful designers of his generation, it is a classic Carter move. Known for interiors that unexpectedly juxtapose old and new, Carter never fails to add a dash of irreverence. “I am prone to one-off environments where steel meets gilt and burled veneer meets blackened iron,” Carter says. And, always, there is art, which “should inspire thought,” he
May 23, 2021 The Double Cube Room. The 9th Earl placed the painting by van Dyck of Charles I’s children Credit: Will Pryce/Country Life In the early 18th century, Wilton House in Wiltshire underwent improvement at the hands of the 9th Earl of Pembroke, an enthusiastic amateur architect. For a new book on Wilton to this day the seat of the Earl of Pembroke John Martin Robinson assesses his remarkable legacy. Photography by Will Pryce and Simon Upton. The splendours of Wilton today owe a great deal to the early 18th century and the figure of Henry, 9th Earl of Pembroke, (1689–1750), known as the ‘Architect’ Earl. His often-overlooked contribution to this magnificent house in origin a great Benedictine convent that was suppressed at the Reformation and repeatedly remodelled thereafter was described by Horace Walpole: ‘The towers, the chambers, the scenes which Holbein, Jones and Vandyke had decorated, and which Earl Thomas had enriched with the spoils of the best ages, received the last touches of beauty from Earl Henry’s hand… No one had a purer taste in building than Earl Henry, of which he gave a few specimens besides his work at Wilton.’
Yuki Sugiura It s been over a year since we last had guests inside our houses for dinner. Now, on the first weekend that we re allowed to have people over, even to stay the night, we may need a slight refresher on how to play the gracious host and put on a dinner party worthy of a post-lockdown celebration. Setting the scene Our dining rooms are more used to being used as offices these days, dining tables piled high with laptops, notebooks and stacks of paper. It s time to clear all that away, get out the polish and lay the table properly. As interior designer Shalini Misra notes, The tablescape is so important; tableware, linens, plates, glasses and cutlery set the mood and tone for the evening. It s more than likely too, that most of your best dinner plates have been left unloved over the pandemic, so now is the time to get them out again.
Set inside the Covent Garden building that was once home to Bow Street Magistrates Court, NoMad London looks to have been worth the wait. Big budget hotel projects are rarely delivered quickly, but NoMad London has been an especially long time coming. The team started work on the project soon after opening the inaugural NoMad hotel in New York in 2012. The lengthy gestation period is down to a change in location, an extremely complex and ambitious build and - most recently - the pandemic. Covent Garden’s Bow Street Magistrates’ Court building - which tried many a famous name including Emmeline Pankhurst and the Kray twins - has been completely reworked internally. In fact Andrew Zobler - the owner of NoMad’s parent company Sydell Group - says the hotel is best thought of as an entirely new building within an existing one.