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This January, celebrate the start of a new year with a special gathering for family and friends, update room schemes with touches of pattern, and get organised with a new 2024 diary
TIME TO CEL EBRATE
Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, the handsome new solid oak Wycombe 8-seater dining table from furniture brand Neptune, £3,795, seamlessly extends from the centre to create a grand 12-seater, ideal for hosting a New Year’s Eve dinner party. For an elegant scheme, dress the table with a neutral tablecloth and finish with tapered, coloured dinner candles in brass or glass candlesticks, and little seasonal flower arrangements. Pair with Neptune’s Wycombe dining chairs with woven rush seats – the brand’s take on the iconic Sussex chair – £450 each.
Indian Summer
Fabric designer Julia Brendell’s work is influenced by many different cultures around the world and draws on her love for folk art style – a popular and common trend in Poland, her home country. This season she has launched two new complementar y designs to her range: Summer Rose, a delicate trellis design, and Indian Summer, bold and reminiscent of an Indian block-print style. Printed in the UK onto Oxford Linen, all her fabrics are suitable for cur tains, blinds, upholstery, cushions and headboards. Pictured is a cushion in Summer Rose Petite in Kiss Me, and curtain in Indian Summer in Kiss Me, both £70 per metre.
COUNTRY CHARM
Designed for ‘countr y-loving folk’, the Christmas collections by Yorkshire-based artist and homeware designer, Rebecca Pitcher, will add some seasonal cheer to your kitchen. Her collection includes fine bone china mugs made in the traditional potteries of Stoke-on-Trent, and kitchen textiles, including co-ordinating teatowels, hob cover, oven gloves and apron. Pictured are the Christmas Robin and Christmas Car mugs, £18 each, and the Christmas Robin teatowel, £11.
Burning bright
Many millions of candles are burned every year in the UK, with candle containers often discarded after use. Artisan candle refill brand, Pott, is on a mission to combat industry waste, so its candles come with a lifetime ‘Pott’, hand thrown by artisan producers in the UK, which after use can be refilled with the company’s custom-made refills. Limited edition wintry scents, presented in a ruby pott, include Opulence, with notes of amber and datura; Fir’s Siberian pine and eucalyptus scent and Noel’s bergamot, clove and warming winter spice aroma. Prices start at £40, including standard pott and refill.
ALL THE LE AVES ARE GREEN
The Blanche wallpaper design from Swedish design house, Cathy Nordström, pays homage to Cathy’s favourite tree, the oak, but the new Moss colourway came about by happy accident. The rich green base colour was originally intended for another pattern
