I think Prunella Scales got her precisely right on the stage. James spends the summer with relatives in the country. Min Hogg, the founding editor, created the magazine's look of old-world bohemianism, along with its catholic approach ("everything from palaces to pigsties").Rupert Thomas was her protg . Wiltshire remained the centre of their family and work lives, though in the course of a long and happy marriage, they also had homes in Cumbria, the Luberon, Ireland and Faiyum, in Egypt. Socialist, royalist, show-off, shy . During his first term at Oxford, his mother arrived to say he had to leave, as his stepfather had walked out and there was no money left. But he is also reading some new British fiction Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, Max Porters debut novella, inspired by Ted Hughes Crow. Then by the 15.33 train to Leeds. More poetry than anything else but its good, he says. New York Interiors: Simon Upton Hardcover - 7 Oct. 2021 by Karen Howes (Editor), Rupert Thomas (Foreword), Simon Upton (Photographer) 38 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 47.55 1 Used from 42.18 7 New from 42.17 Having a fragment makes it human. He loves the comedy of Stewart Lee, and the geeky sitcom The Big Bang Theory, and the funny but so savage playwright Martin McDonagh. There was nothing on it. The architecture was a document, just like the decorative objects, which all brought their referential history to the composition. The magazines point-of-view is distinct, even wacky. It showcases seemingly every facet of the decorative arts and crafts over centuries, from the pop artist Roy Lichtensteins Manhattan studio to an antique dealers 16th-century Shropshire pile to a shepherds hut, while reviewing books like The Peoples Galleries: Art Museums and Exhibitions in Britain 1800-1914. Its intelligent, witty and wide-ranging in its curiosity: a bible. Queen Anne Grace. Demonstrations of patriotism always make me uncomfortable, but I dont think that makes me less of an Englishman. He laughs. ), portrait 250 color illustrations ISBN: 978--86565-388-7 Hardcover US $75 / CAN $95 / GBP 60 PUBLISHED: Oct, 2021 Bennett portrays his fellow performers in Beyond The Fringe (Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, with whom he made his breakthrough on Broadway in 1962) as larger, more vivid figures; he, in his own accounts, tends to be waiting in the wings nervously while the audience laughs itself silly at Cooks jokes. His partner of 23 years, Rupert Thomas, is the editor of the World Of Interiors magazine and it shows the room is a comfortable cave of 18th-century pictures, a mantelpiece loaded up with cards (one handmade in the shape of a red-soled grey shoe) and a wall lined with books: fat Pevsner architectural guides, the journals of Anthony Powell, Virginia Woolf and John Cheever, Claire Tomalins Thomas Hardy biography, and volumes on the history of blue-and-white china. Helen, the author of the acclaimed Meg and Mog series of childrens books, died in 2012. It was thick as a phone book with ads and printed on heavy 100-gram wood-free coated paper, the most luscious, most expensive paper of any Cond title. Its so successful as a business, and so solid, that Im very wary of pushing them in directions they feel uncomfortable going in, said Mr. Read. The findings demonstrated the power of data mining over the world's largest set of bibliographic metadata and highlighted the value of collaborative collective cataloging. Here is the full article below. We live near London Zoo, and if I walk the long way round, I see the giraffes. She runs the Interior Archive, a London-based picture library and photographic agency. And the very thought of it becoming popular is anathema to those who . I feel more than a touch mournful that Rupert Thomas is stepping down from The World of Interiors after a mere 21 years. While Bennetts audiences and readers have come to know all kinds of apparently intimate things about him the pigskin suitcases his Aunty Myra brought back from India during the war, the particular smell of his grandmothers dresser he has kept much of himself back. The office is one largish room with deeply scuffed wood floors, a drop ceiling and windows overlooking green Hanover Square. No good arguments have been advanced for it. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/style/world-of-interiors.html. We also earn affiliate revenue through products seen on our website and other platforms, frequently via products that our writers and editors have personally used and love. And World of Interiors is the only magazine that Ive kept and trooped around the world wherever Ive lived, he said. Categories: Suggest Category. Find out about Rupert Thomas's family tree, family history, ancestry, ancestors, genealogy, relationships and affairs! At the time of the relationship he enjoyed the sense of wrongfooting people: I think I probably got some satisfaction from thinking, Well, everyone assumes I am gay.. Im one for being early, and Ruperts one for being last-minute. The Ultimate Interior Design Sale 2023; Twinkle of Christmas 2022; Lighting by Design 2022; Formed with Future Heritage; Focus/22; WOW!house 2022. The van had been parked at various points along the road, and at length drifted down to his house. Though I prefer shine. His tutor would not hear of it and gave Robert the rest of the year to sort things out. The issue took editor Rupert Thomas most of a year to . My feeling is that probably hed been doing imitations of me for years and when he did Cocktail Sticks he was simply going public, Bennett says. When you walk, even in central London, you're very aware of the seasons. He worried because he had made the mistake of being an extremely good shot not with a rifle (I would shut my eyes because of the recoil) but with a Bren, a light machine gun. Part of its magic is that it's just a fragment. Would it have had the same kitschy quality as, say, a mug of Charles and Diana? Larkin is about things I recognise. But we are., The Lady In The Van is released on 13 November, The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett review, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. A thin, bespectacled man of 53, Mr. Thomas had on wool trousers paired with a green corduroy blazer and blue cloth tie, and exuded an air of bookish intelligence and modest British eccentricity. Every morning he looked minutely at his catalogues and turned down the corners before handing in a list of lots to the auction houses. Even now, I find myself going to Vivienne Westwood and buying 'drunken' trousers that are lop-sided. Since 1981 The World of Interiors has documented the rich diversity of ways in which we live, showcasing the stylish and the unexpected as well as applauding individuality. Bringing style to an empty space is relatively easy; imbuing it with soul and a sense of history is far more complicated. (modern), Alan Bennett photographed at home by Antony Crolla for the Guardian, Alan Bennett: I didnt see the point of coming out'. And there he was, in Cambridge, and with a bit of money, too. The men stood in the center of the office over a white tabletop that, on closer inspection, revealed itself to be a dormant light box for viewing photographic transparencies. Despite the sense of familiarity that comes from having watched his television plays of the 70s and 80s, or read his autobiographical stories, he is not in any real sense knowable. 1/9 Inside Nicolas Ghesquire's flat in Paris. There were so many incidents when she was not actually physically roughed up, but people banged on the side of the van, hoping to get her out and waving her stick, that I always had one eye on her and it stopped me working. Markets I've been going to London junk markets since I was 14. At 16 I briefly had a stall in Camden Lock. And they write and tell you.. I feel more than a touch mournful that Rupert Thomas is stepping down from The World of Interiors after a mere 21 years. Although Vogue House is shopworn on the whole, with old elevators and an in-house canteen employees call the Hatch, the World of Interiors office has a different degree of make-do, in keeping with its history. a cover quite as eye-popping as this current one by Donatella Versace," writes Rupert Thomas, editor of The World of Interiors, . Thanks also to Cosmo Brockway for words and Simon Upton for Photography. Making rooms seem as venerable as they are comfortable requires a skill and sensibility far beyond the reach of most decorators. He is not a celebrity editor in the Anna Wintour mold. The World of Interiors has been bringing together the widest variety of the most sumptuous houses and architectural projects for over 30 years. It raised two fledglings: one fell out of the nest and was killed. The gold-standard shelter magazine runs on a brass-tacks budget and refuses to kowtow to the internet. Robert Kime had a (possibly unique) talent for imparting timeless lustre to all his schemes be it an apparently undistinguished bathroom or a fine panelled sitting room. The local men indulge secret desires in a deserted barn and James' relatives have their own hidden pleasures. Once, on a Turkish bus, he bought the headscarf of the lady in front of him a kandili print with a pattern of pea pods. <br><br>Prior to that, spent 10 years on the Waitrose Board, accountable for all elements of the 7bn commercial and customer proposition. Print is dead. He never made a room plan and was very clear he was not an interior designer. But readers and advertisers enjoy The World of Interiors as a print object. He is dating Rupert Thomas. They didnt want to be beholden to country. The notion that you are required to sing the national anthem in order to prove your patriotism, and if you dont youre not patriotic, is so absurd.. I was writing overlooking the garden and it was exactly as it was with Miss Shepherd: half my eye was on this bird because there were jays about, and seagulls. Other than a cursory if reasonably popular Instagram presence and website of inspirational indices, its not really on the internet, or trying limply to be of the internet as so many other legacy titles are. In the film, there are two Alan Bennetts. His partner of 23 years, Rupert Thomas, is the editor of the World Of Interiors magazine and it shows the room is a comfortable cave of 18th-century pictures, a mantelpiece loaded up with cards (one handmade in the shape of a red-soled grey shoe) and a wall lined with books: fat Pevsner architectural guides, the journals of Anthony Powell, Virginia Woolf and John Cheever, Claire Tomalins Thomas Hardy biography, and volumes on the history of blue-and-white china. THE WORLD OF INTERIORS von HOGG, Min / THOMAS, Rupert(ed) und eine groe Auswahl hnlicher Bcher, Kunst und Sammlerstcke erhltlich auf AbeBooks.de. The Instagram account was introduced well after the social media platform became popular, and only upon careful consideration of how to approach the medium, said Emma Redmayne, the magazines publisher. . He had sold it and everything in it. Lord of the light box: Rupert Thomas, the editor in chief of The World of Interiors, at the magazines office in London. Well, electric typewriters, they hum. The World of Interiors. 192 pages, Paperback. His predecessor and the founding editor, Min Hogg, was a formidable figure whose father was the ear, nose and throat physician to the Queen Mother, and who ran with a bohemian London in crowd, including the actor Rupert Everett and the social gadfly and decorator Nicky Haslam. The production of his projects, which ran from first site visit and client meeting to the backing out for final occupation, was enormously complicated and involved a cast of thousands. WOW! Lady of the lampshade: Emma Redmayne, the publisher of World of Interiors. No other magazine in the building, or practically anywhere else, used a light box anymore, having switched to digital photography. The other producer like that, in a different way, was Ned Sherrin: he understood about giving you space and not letting you know there was a row on. Thomas, who joined the Conde Nast title in 1991, had been editor-in-chief Min Hogg's deputy since 1997. Tarr is a minor British inter-war painter and no one wanted it. We offer a range of tours for visitors and from 4th May to 4th June 2023 we are delighted to introduce an exhibition of works by the ceramicist Simon Pettet curated by Rupert Thomas, former editor of The World of Interiors. It wasnt started by Cond Nast, but rather bought by the company back when it was published independently as Interiors and headquartered above a florists shop on Fulham Road. I cant say I love my country, because I dont know what that means. Does he think patriotism is a necessary virtue? If I could have taken the bird inside, I would, not because of the bird but because of me. Like his staff, Mr. Thomas is frugal and workmanlike. If that makes sense., Inside The World of Interiors, Cond Nasts Secret Weapon, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/style/world-of-interiors.html. So why start churning out clickbait like 5 Ways to Get the Downton Abbey Look? The World of Interiors is meant for a niche audience and the people who run it are fine with that. Then there was the other one, which came out of the nest too soon and had to be fed by the robin. Robert was very decisive about changing his life, and was always ready to move on, and let go of the past, even his own. It was the mindless, repetitive and demeaning nature of that work that put the iron into my soul, he says. 4/9 The main living room of Christopher Bailey's Yorkshire farmhouse. It afforded Robert the bliss of rooting through the royal attics at Windsor on behalf of a client who shared many of his tastes, including a love of Near Eastern fabrics. (When quizzed last summer he knew exactly the colour of the watered silk covering four chairs he had sold to my parents in 1972.). The Cond Nast editor discusses his favourite markets, his favourite restaurant in New York and the treasure lying around his house. Download The World of Interiors - August 2011 book for free from Z-Library . Writers Michael Frayn and Dennis Potter did it, as did the late John Drummond, controller of the BBC Proms in the 90s, who ended up working in intelligence; Bennett applied and got on. I tried to show this empathy in my pictures, often working at dawn in the soft early light to show how lovely it was to wake up in the morning in one of the bedrooms he had designed. If one could even sell a magazine memoir of today, it might be called The Getting-By Years: slashed budgets, reduced staffs, a noticeable diminishing of not just financial resources but ambition and copy-editing. After my first encounter with Robert, some fifteen years ago, having shown me around his offices and workshops in converted barns at Beacon Farm near Hungerford, he turned to me and said, I like your atmosphere. A disarming but touching compliment. With his partner of 23 years, Rupert Thomas. Sought after by the major design organizations, he travels the world photographing people and their homes. Christopher Bailey, the president and former chief creative officer of Burberry, said that while The World of Interiors appeals to the fashion crowd, its not fashionable. Country. No, but he is a strong supporter. With an incredibly low circulation but very high advertising spend, WoI is unique to the publishing world. I used to. Mr. Thomas grew up in public housing in north London (his mother was a costumer) and joined the staff of The World of Interiors as a junior editor in 1992, after working for the art-book . New York magazine asked, Whats left of Cond Nast, even as it faces an uncertain future under Vox Media, its new owner. Personally and creatively, Dennis and his house opened a world of possibility for Simon. As King Charles wrote of Robert, You often hear of people who are said to have a good eye, but Robert Kimes must surely be one of the best. A highly experienced and inspirational business leader, who sits on the Fortnum & Mason Executive as Chief Commercial Officer. Mr. Thomas drank a cup of tea at the messy worktable and reflected on the industrys golden, halcyon days, as he put it, when 25 models and 15 hair-and-makeup stylists would be flown to a glamorous and remote location for a shoot. You have to keep an eye on everything. It remains firmly acknowledged as the most . The same day, I went to a Ravilious exhibition at the Fine Art Society and thought, 'I can't afford a painting by Ravilious but I'm just as happy with this.'. To my lasting regret, I never got to know Robert very well. The Cond Nast editor discusses his favourite markets, his favourite restaurant in New York and the treasure lying around his house. And inventive: Though product pages typically consist of clip art on a white background, The World of Interiors will collect the latest fabrics and drape them across a farm field in the Cotswolds. Its a thing about being beholden, about not being beholden to anyone, he says. Recently, its been The Shepherds Life, a memoir of farming in the Lake District by James Rebanks (a very good book). In my case, coming out about what? New York Interiors | Vendome Press | Publisher of Art and Illustrated Books New York Interiors By: Simon Upton Edited by Karen Howes Foreword by Rupert Thomas 360 pages 9 x 12 in. 1 February 2022 Charles Saumarez Smith Leave a comment. Karen Howes is an interior design writer whose books include Private Ireland and Vacation Homes and Perfect Weekend Hideaways. It makes you sound so pompous if you put it like that.. It seems so recent that he took on what seemed an impossible task - taking over from Min Hogg, the queen of the unknown country house . We are talking in his front room in Primrose Hill in London. A collection she had discussed with Robert before he died is under way. (As a student, Harty invited Vivien Leigh round to his rooms for drinks, a most unBennett-like act.) I see that poems like [Hughes] The Pike are wonderful, but they arent about the life I lead.. Italy, France, England and Egypt where we all travelled together down the Nile in a beautiful boat, were the core of his inspirations. The World of Interiors also republished her Canary Islands home on the cover and carried a two-page dedication to her life by Mr. Thomas, who credited Ms. Hogg with defining the magazines approach (Everything from palaces to pigsties) and with keeping it free from business-side meddling (The much-quoted anecdote of Min throwing an ashtray at a hapless publisher is true). Bennett also had a long-term relationship with his former housekeeper, Anne Davies, until her death in 2009. . The garden is so small that it makes birds look enormous. My parents were quite shy and, looking back, it felt they had made shy into a virtue and I believed that, he tells me. . Bennetts work is full of timid characters overwhelmed by and attracted to bolder, flashier types: Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton in the film Prick Up Your Ears, for example; Benjamin Britten and WH Auden in the play The Habit Of Art; even Bennett and Miss Shepherd in The Lady In The Van. Sources of domestic tension, meantime, are few. I had harboured a small and ludicrous fantasy that Bennett might also have ended up spying, but am swiftly disabused. Find Rupert Thomas of The World of Interiors's articles, email address, contact information, Twitter and more After Oxford, a chance meeting at a student house party at Ashton Wold, the Northamptonshire home of the scientist Miriam Rothschild, led to his first shop. By the age of 16, he had won a place at the University of Oxford to read medieval history, but, too young to go up, spent 18 months working on archaeological digs in Greece and Israel. He rarely gives interviews, and The World of Interiors, unlike most magazines, doesnt carry an editors letter or entreaties to follow him on social media. Later he turned the story into a stage play, starring Maggie Smith, and now comes the film, directed by Nicholas Hytner, also starring Smith. A production by the Theatre Royal, Bath, of The Madness Of George III, in 2011. He became editor in 2000, only the second in the magazines 38-year history. Hogg decided not to return to the editor's chair after a sabbatical last year. He talks about the totalitarian Tories, why he doesnt go to the theatre, and a lifetime of being contrary. One has only had to stand still to become a radical., He is a royalist as well as a socialist. He was sent to train with an infantry platoon in Pontefract that was going to be sent to the war in Korea; not unreasonably, he didnt want to go. In all his travelling across the world and with all the items that he saw, Robert maintained an encyclopedic set of references, but had an amused take on conventional categories. Our goal is to document the rich diversity of ways in which we live, showcasing the stylish and the unexpected as well as applauding individuality. Clearly theres no stylist, no flowers, Ms. Smith recalled, referring to the practice of primping a home before its photographed. Both those things make you want to go on with it both the praise and the criticism. Of Hughes and Plaths poetry, he says: I slightly felt with the pair of them that if anyone had cracked a joke the whole thing would have split wide open. Rupert Thomas, 44, has been the editor of The World of Interiors since June 2000, and is only the second person to edit the design and decoration magazine since it was founded in 1981. Longstanding editor Rupert Thomas is stepping down after 22 years at the title. On a recent morning, the magazines editor, Rupert Thomas, was meeting with the art director, Mark Lazenby, to finalize feature layouts for an upcoming issue. Odeon ticket Our friend Lynn Wagenknecht owns a restaurant in New York called the Odeon - along with Caf Luxembourg and a new place, Caf Cluny. Budgets were neither reduced nor increased. Curated by Rupert Thomas, former editor of The World of Interiors, the exhibition extends throughout the house and is the largest selection of Simon's work ever shown publicly. We are chatting in what his mam would have called "the parlour" of the Primrose Hill home where he's lived for a decade with his partner Rupert Thomas. Rupert Thomas. The refurbishment of an unloved farmhouse on a family estate in Buckinghamshire. I've been going to Portobello on a Friday morning for 30 years - particularly Golborne Road, which is still junky, cheap and cheerful, like markets used to be. He had very green fingers. Its not of the moment..
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