2008 Christmas Card
Craftsmanship in a selection of recent projects
1. Iconic portico for the entrance of a new house in Hampstead, London
2. A carved stone urn at the garden entrance to a new house in Hampshire
3. Bas-relief panels, designed by Alexander Stoddart, illustrating a scene from the Odyssey, on the facade of a new art gallery in New Bond Street, London
4. Semi-circular stone staircase, built with cast stone cantilivered treads and an oak handrail, for a new villa in Gloucestershire
5. Brick and Portland stone gate pier and ball finial at the entrance to a Palladian house in Berkshire
6. Hand-carved stone athemion from a new country house in Hampshire
7. Column capital with a design based on fern leaves cast in terracotta for a two room extension to a madieval manor house in Hampshire
8. Drawing of a decorative fibrous plaster ceiling rose above an octagonal landing for a new house in Wiltshire
9. Cast bronze monkey modelled by sculptor Simon Smith for the staircase of a new house in Hampshire
10. Decorative copper bayleaf frieze on a new office building at 198-202 Piccadilly, London
11. Lion head fountain, carved in Portland stone for a new house in Hampshire
12. The new Art Workers Guild apprenticeship for the promotion of traditional craft skills
13. Carved oak newel post for a new house in Wiltshire
14. Stone console fireplace for Crooked Pightle House, Hampshire
15. Carved natural stone wreath surrounding a circular round window on a new house in Surrey
16. New Portland stone doorcase as part of the restoration of a manor farmhouse in Hampshire
17. A sample panel of stone and flint checkerboard for a new house in Wiltshire
18. Carved oak balcony brackets for a house in Hampshire
19. Decorative brick panels for Bordon Library in Hampshire
20. Part of a Latin inscription in the frieze of the Millennium Arch in Atlanta, Georgia USA
21. Modelled plaster swag by Dick Reid, designed for a new English Baroque country house
22. Painted column decoration in the colonnaded vestibule, Crooked Pightle, Hampshire
23. Stainless steel capital from a new office building at 198-202 Piccadilly, London
24. Library table for a country house, Hampshire, constructed in eight different English hardwoods
25. Cast-stone capital, modelled on the Ionic Order of Illisus, on the entrance porch of a new villa in Gloucestershire
26. Decorative timber bargeboard and finial from a new cottage ornee in Hampshire
27. Stone Ionic column and entablature, part of the entrance portico of a new house in Surrey
Illustration by Chris Draper