Lord of the Manor
Shaun Castle 16 June 2006
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A Lady Reading by George Romney
Shaun Castle 15 June 2006
A Lady Reading is a portrait of Mrs Brown of Tallantire Hall Cumberland Links to this post
Tallantire Hall to Rent
Shaun Castle 13 June 2006
A rare opportunity to let the major part of a historic Grade II Listed Hall ideally situated on the fringes of the Lake District National Park, offering grand-scale furnished accommodation suitable for luxury residential or corporate let. The principal Hall interconnects on both floors with the North West Wing, providing four bedrooms, two bathroom suites, a second kitchen and lounge, which could operate integrated or as a guest suite to the principal Hall. A further four bedroom wing may also be available. Accommodation extends to 8,261.8 sq ft (767.4m2).
Accessed by gated and pillared driveway, the let includes use of the eighteen acres of landscaped gardens and wooded grounds, with terraced lawns, rose gardens, banks of rhododendrons and woodland walks.
Luxury appointment, use of BMW 4x4, a personal concierge service, and shoot, rural and leisure pursuits are available upon request.
The property is offered on an Assured Shorthold Tenancy for six months, furnished and all inclusive.
The full estate is also for sale, with a Guide Price of £2.5million.
Tallantire Hall is 15 mins from Bassenthwaite Lake, 20 mins from the Cumbria coast, 30 mins from the M6, Carlisle Airport (Private Jet Access), West Coast Line (London Euston), and 1 hr 35mins flying time by helicopter from Battersea Helipad.
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Tallantire Hall, Cockermouth, Cumbria
7 bedrooms, 8 reception rooms, 4 bathrooms. Monthly rental - Price Upon Application Furnished and all inclusive
The property is also for sale, with a Guide Price of £2.5 million
For further information and press material, please contact Shaun Castle on 01228 516409
shaun.castle@lakesandcountry.co.uk
Tallantire film
Riding Jacket
Shaun Castle 12 June 2006
The reinterpreted tweed jacket from Full Circle was the surprise fringe piece of last season, an updated take on the country gent lineage which didn't look out of place in The Ivy. Mark Humphrey, one time interior designer to Ringo Starr and George Harrison, and rising star of the savvy avant-garde set, is about to venture into the couture world of menswear. A preview of the forthcoming collection of riding, shooting and driving jackets suggests a country couture similarly at home in the city as on the grouse moor. Pedigreed, brooding and immaculately tailored. The riding jacket in connoisseurial ostrich has to be jacket of the season.
For full collection and private orders, contact 01228 526410.
www.fullcircleuk.com
Tallantire Translated
Shaun Castle 11 June 2006
A 19th century directory of Cumberland records that the Manor of Tallantire was granted by Waldeof, son of Gospatrick, to Odard, son of Lyolph, whose decendents took the local name of Tallantire. Its name evocatively translates as “end of the land.” Links to this post
Heaney's Windermere
Shaun Castle 05 June 2006
Seamus Heaney’s new collection unites the three themes that dominate his poetry - the past, death and myth. Two poems address the Lakes, and Dorothy and William Wordsworth in particular, A Scuttle for Dorothy Wordsworth and Wordsworth’s Skates. Against the mitigating forces turning the Lakes into a museum piece, Heaney squares up the past to “now”. In Heaney’s perspective, past poets are as alive as the living, and have indelibly changed the way the living see. The poem about Wordsworths ice skates, on display in a glass case, dismisses their dusty material reality, and switches attention instead to their counterparts in the Prelude, which “flashed from the clutch of earth” and left a lasting mark on the world. Like all good poetry, Heaney, remembering Yeats too, injects “buried men/Back in the human mind again”.
Wordsworth’s Skates
Star in the window.
Slate scrape. Bird or branch?Or the whet and scud of steel on placid ice?
Not the bootless runners lying toppled
In dust in a display case,
Their bindings perished,
But the reel of them on frozen Windermere
As he flashed from the clutch of earth along its curve
And left it scored.
From District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
(Faber and Faber, 2006) Links to this post
Whitwell's Arts & Crafts House
Shaun Castle 04 June 2006
A fine example of Vernacular Revival, Nanny Brow House, Clappersgate, was built in 1902 by the architect Francis Whitwell, influenced by the style realised four years earlier by Voysey’s seminal Broadleys by Windermere.
The property occupies its own fellside, commanding magnificent views, with the River Brathay below and the Pike of Blisco, Harter Fell and Wrynose Pass beyond.
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Birch Grove
Shaun Castle 03 June 2006
Birch Grove, Tallantire Hall
At the back of a garden, in earshot of river water,
In a corner walled off like the baths or bake-house
Of an unroofed abbey or broken-floored Roman villa,
They have planted their birch grove. Planted it recently
only,
But already each morning it puts forth in the sun
Like their own long grown-up selves, the white of the
bark
As suffused and cool as the white of the satin
nightdress
She bends and straightens up in, pouring tea,
Sitting across from where he dandles a sandal
On his big time-keeping foot, as bare as an abbot’s.
Red brick and slate, plum tree and apple retain
Their credibility, a CD of Bach is making the rounds
Of the common or garden air. Above them a jet trail
Tapers and waves like a willow wand or a taper.
‘If art teaches us anything,’ he says, trumping life
With a quote, ‘it’s that the human condition is private.’
The Birch Grove is from District and Circle by Seamus Heaney (Faber and Faber, 2006) Links to this post
rus in urbe
Shaun Castle 02 June 2006
Interiors consultant Julian Land has created an inspired Hicksian homage for Pierre Brahm’s high-end rental pied-a-tierre in South Eaton Place, Belgravia. Bringing rus into the urbe, Land merges the antique and modern into a striking aesthetic. A pair of stag antlers are the focal point to a reception room of select Hicks pieces: a chaise longue, two armchairs and sofas. The main bedrooms are decorated in blues, browns and faux fur; the third bedroom, which also serves as a study, luxuriates in reds and pinks. Heavy silk drapes hang upstairs, while in the hallway a red Pierre Frey curtain made up of 80 per cent metal and 20 per cent silk, conceals the lift entrance.
Escape to London
Julian Land www.julianland.com
Ashley Hicks at Allegra Hicks www.davidhicks.co.uk
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Drawing Room Prints
Shaun Castle 01 June 2006
The drawing room was historically “the ladies’ room”, a place of talk and display, invariably with a book of prints open on the table, or with a discreet background of prints hung in symmetrical patterns in conjunction with the furniture.
Of the avant gardes, the fashion house BOUDICCA are acknowledged for their erotic, non-conformist and conceptual wears for the intelligent woman, with an architectonic reference to late Victoriana. “We are inspired by all the echoes of the past that are rubbed away and rewritten over again”. Startlingly elegant and razor-sharp in tailoring, the Autumn/Winter 05 collection was romantically bucolic, with textured black on black play on ostentation and concealment. Acruing cult following and the patina of celebrity admirers including Claudia Schiffer and Sharon Stone, BOUDICCA measure success in a small but fiercely loyal clientele no doubt attracted to the inordinate amount of attention that goes into every garment in order to achieve the enigmatic BOUDICCA look.
Using the medium of etching, the artist Graham Dolphin in collaboration with the fashion house has created a series of fine graphic prints exploring the aesthetics of the A/W:05 collection. Edition 1 brings together every item from the collection and re-configures into an intensely layered composition. Edition 2 takes one item from the collection, The Pleated Shoulder Jacket (‘Vent Jacket’), and gathers then explodes all the different fabrications that have gone into the garment, creating a deeply transformative representation. Signed and numbered by the artist and BOUDICCA, the series includes two editions of the etchings with additional artwork by the fashion house, and a sound art edition. The editions are offered framed or unframed, with the option of finishing in beautifully extravagant hand-made fabrications in high Gothic style designed specifically for each edition by the artist.
The 19th century drawing room aesthetic, revisited for the 21st.
For further information or to purchase an edition, please call Castle Editions 01228 516410 or go to www.castle-editions.com Links to this post