Sherry Hayslip designed this sweet guest apartment kitchen with a backsplash of polychrome Delft tiles. Michael Hunter There’s an oft-repeated maxim among decorators: Blue and white is always right.
No ultimate cottagecore decorated home is complete without the iconic, cobalt-blue glazed country motifs of Delft tiles. Characterized by its signature hand-painted pastoral or nature scenes on a ...
From fabric to tile to dinnerware, the pairing of blue and white is one of the most adored in decorating, embraced by scores of cultures for a millennium. But this year, in particular, patterns are ...
Last year, Christian Shea envisioned a novel gift for his wife: a Delft tile depicting their beloved Border Collie, Abbey. He commissioned Aviva Halter, an English artist in rural Dorset, via ...
From trap doors that lead to ominous hidden rooms to messages left under layers of wallpaper and forgotten pools under the floorboards, our homes are packed with (sometimes terrifying) surprises. But, ...
A new generation of artisans are paying homage to the centuries-old craft even as they subvert it. By Max Norman Photographs by David Chow Styled by Victoria Petro-Conroy A broad-shouldered farmer, ...
Consider the same old round of furry- footed horses and snaggle-toothed milkmaids cluttering up your life day in, day out. The most exciting thing to happen since 1595 had been the introduction of a ...
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'. GODOLPHIN HOUSE. Godolphin House was once the largest house in Cornwall with a colonnaded front and 48 hearths [fireplaces].