Rita Konig designed this open fireplace surrounded by a chimneypiece found at Petworth Antique Centre. Up until the 20th century and the invention of mechanized contained heating systems, rooms were heated by an open or central fire.

Identical wooden wardrobes have been placed either side of the fireplace creating symmetry, whilst the stacked wood and red-and-white patterned carpet add character. Today many of those fine materials are no longer available, however many other beautiful materials can be found worldwide.The reviews themselves are also only occasionally interesting and are really sub-par as far as reviews go.

Exactly as the facade of a building is distinguished by its design, proportion, and detail so it is with fine mantels. Since launching her freelance career in 2020 she has written for a variety of titles and brands, including Future titles Style at Home and Ideal Home.A mantel offers a unique opportunity in its design for a sculptor/artisan to demonstrate their skill in carving each of the fine decorative elements. To prevent dark fireplace mantelpiece ideas becoming flat add a boost of freshness with foliage and flashes of green in artwork and candles. Although air dried to the Pembrokeshire Climate, it is not unusual for the oak to develop further shrinkage, movement, splits and cracks as it acclimatises to your properties temperature. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

So intelligent and humorous an author does not come around very often and we are lucky to have the books she left us, while mourning that she was excited about writing a book which she will not now finish and that, sadly, we cannot now get to read. Her subjects range far and Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain’s last witch. As an added bonus, I am French and find her reviews on the French Revolution particularly interesting.Instead she takes the book's subject—usually a figure from the Tudor court or the French Revolution, or else a female saint or mystic—and spins out her own narrative of the person's life and historical context. She was sharp when reviewing and her sly humour reminded me of Jane Austen, in the way she could be so intelligently observant and unromantic. Your style is your own, but if you don’t know where to start with your mantelpiece ideas then there are a few guidelines you could use to get started. These oak beam mantel pieces for fireplace surrounds are created from partially dried new untreated oak sleepers. We love Imperfect Interiors' use and subtle blend of traditional with mid-century modern accents for this family home in Suffolk.

Perhaps we're doing it for both: maybe the mantelpiece and its modern equivalents are a site of interplay between personal identity and public display. Hawn, Nicholson, Hoffman and Voight would all have at least one Oscar on their mantelpiece by the time the ’80s dawned and were now as much a part of the Hollywood elite as Wayne and Hope were on that April evening. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman. Mantel, who has written frankly in the past about her misdiagnosed endometriosis, knows what she’s talking about: her essay “Meeting the Devil”, describing abdominal surgery she underwent in 2010, is one of the most irreverent and savagely convivial meditations on pain and illness you are ever likely to read (no wearing away of the intellect here). A mantel traditionally offers a unique opportunity for the architect/designer to create a personal statement unique to the room they are creating.Mantelpieces come in all shapes and sizes, whether they are part of a surround or a shelf above a wood burner. The English chimneypieces of the early seventeenth century, when the purer Italian style was introduced by Inigo Jones, were extremely simple in design, sometimes consisting only of the ordinary mantel piece, with classic architraves and shelf, the upper part of the chimney breast being paneled like the rest of the room. With a balance between grandeur and elegance, the Contemporary collection of stone fireplace mantelpieces includes everything a modern home needs. Where Mantel really shines is in her review of historical books like 'The Recockning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe' by Charles Nicholl or 'Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower' by Susan Higginbotham where her expertise in English history promotes the subject admirably.