The January issue of World of Interiors has just popped through the letter box with, lo and behold, a long and beautifully written piece by Ruth Guilding about Romilly’s jewellery, illustrated with photographs by Antony Crolla. Of course, I shouldn’t sound surprised because we knew it was coming out in advance of her exhibition Newfoundland which opens at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich on Saturday. But what we hadn’t anticipated was the intense poetry of the text, describing the way she translates and transmogrifies the finds of metal detectorists which she buys on ebay and then her assistants convert into highly refined, neo-medieval works of contemporary jewellery.
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Wentworth Estate (1)
This morning I went on a visit to the Wentworth Estate in Virginia Water. It was a new experience for me because I had no idea that such massive classical houses were still being constructed, although, having now done a bit of research on it, I realise that some of them are being designed by Julian Bicknell and some by my nephew George. The estate itself was laid out in the 1920s for captains of industry and stockbrokers to enjoy a semi- country life of golf within easy reach of London and the impresario behind the scheme was a builder-cum-developer called Walter Tarrant who had begun by building arts-and-crafts houses in St. George’s Hill, Weybridge.
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