The World of Interiors Introduces Fashion Issue - WWD No one made rooms seem more elegantly inevitable. At first, he would give only Fridays over to decoration, but the clamour became insistent. Rupert Thomas, editor of The World of Interiors Magazine with Gemma at our showroom at Design Centre Chelsea Harbourour Most Inspiring Showroom that. With his partner of 23 years, Rupert Thomas. One has only had to stand still to become a radical., He is a royalist as well as a socialist.
World of Interiors Gets New Editor - Vogue's Hamish Bowles - Curbed 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. It raised two fledglings: one fell out of the nest and was killed.
Pen I try to hand-write cards to people, particularly if they've sent pictures of their houses to the magazine.
In memory of Robert Kime, by his friends and colleagues As we speak, a memory about Bennett surfaces, something that Thomas told me when, nearly 20 years ago, he and I worked together on the World Of Interiors. I feel more than a touch mournful that Rupert Thomas is stepping down from The World of Interiors after a mere 21 years. Rupert Thomas is the new editor of 65,000-selling monthly The World of Interiors. I mean, if the World of Interiors circulation suddenly jumped to 150,000, Id almost be worried.. Thomas began as a sub-editor on the glossy, after studying at the Courtauld . Nick chose me, rather than the other way round, he says of Hytner. Clearly theres no stylist, no flowers, Ms. Smith recalled, referring to the practice of primping a home before its photographed. Simon Upton is one of the foremost names in interiors photography, with more than 25 years of published work to his credit. In the film the author is trapped between the demands of two elderly women: his mother, declining up in Yorkshire, and Miss Shepherd, whose unruly presence tests the liberal principles of the new generation of artists, television people and journalists who, Bennett among them, had moved into Camden Town and done up the big old Victorian villas there (the knockers-through, Bennett has called them). In time, he built up a prestigious worldwide clientele, about whom he remained discreet. The organization was fiendish. His collaborations with supremely talented and skilled practitioners were built up across decades, with all bringing their best work to the projects. If we were ever to split up it would be about that, really. 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. Very few stories are available on its website. Then as I got older I realised its an affliction, really, and if youre shy you are just as self-centred as anyone who is outgoing and the life and soul of the party. But perhaps also more watchful; the one more likely to be making pungent little notes in the days journal, or transforming his close observations into works of art such as the Talking Heads monologues of the 1980s and 90s, or The Madness Of George III. Our builders dug it out and paved it in herringbone brick. Categories. The best stories from The World of Interiors, delivered to your inbox. He got into trouble a few years back when he said in an interview that he didnt read contemporary British fiction, which was taken as being an affront to AS Byatt and everybody else but I just read other things. I was quite conservative and Christian and rather priggish when I went into the army.
The World of Interiors - Wikipedia They're serious and thorough, but can be off-puttingly dry. Rupert Thomas. The Queen comes upon herself, comes upon having a private life that she has never really thought about, he explains now. Garden Ours is a real London garden: tiny. He had a wonderful and often self-deprecating humour. . He giggles. Published monthly in print and daily on its website and digital platforms, The World of Interiors is a global title celebrating originality in design, decorating, arts and culture.
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The World of Interiors - August 2011 Because where today are you going to read, Dried whippet over dusty silverware?. 3 Alan seen here with his partner Rupert Thomas Credit: Rex Features What are Alan Bennett's. Tarr is a minor British inter-war painter and no one wanted it. Is it really true, I ask, that you keep your work-in-progress in the fridge for safekeeping?
Alan Bennett - Wikipedia 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 . It would be too precious and untouchable. Rupert Thomas, former editor of The World of Interiors Making rooms seem as venerable as they are comfortable requires a skill and sensibility far beyond the reach of most decorators. When he discovers his desires for a local man are reciprocated, a hidden side to the village is revealed to him. I definitely don't jog. Learn . Markets I've been going to London junk markets since I was 14. . 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 still commission on film, said Mr. Thomas, a note of pride in his voice. Ceramics I'm particularly interested in 17th- and 18thcentury ceramics. 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. Rupert Thomas. Bennett himself is played by Alex Jennings, who is seen at various points stabbing ineffectually with two fingers at a manual typewriter. Jennings does a lovely version of the writer, a role he first took in 2012 in another Bennett play, Cocktail Sticks, at the National Theatre. If he wasnt a magazine editor, you could imagine him teaching the Bloomsbury Group to students at a gently rundown art school. I have always loved exploring buildings with Robert, each of us trying to unravel the puzzle of the sequence of periods and with this understanding making the new work legible. Assembled into a single narrative, they were first published in the LRB after Miss Shepherds death. She overlapped with Rupert and so it ended, and then she came to Yorkshire and lived next door. Bowles said he will "work with the team to bring the magazine's unique world of inspiration to new on-line, video and digital platforms." He will take up the role in January when current editor Rupert Thomas will step down after 22 years. Its never settled. (LogOut/ We can do a major shoot in a day., Mr. Thomas said, Theres something better than throwing money at a situation. No, but he is a strong supporter. A friend in Buenos Aires also sends me gaucho trousers that button up at the ankle but are wide in the leg so you can sling yourself on to a horse. It was making a profit and there was no reason to sell it back again. He still has that schoolboy mop of blond hair, and were it not for a little stiffness as he rises from his chair, and deep veins on his hands, you would take him for a much younger man. To be patriotic to be English is partly to be sceptical of ones country, and of patriotism itself. He now lives with Rupert Thomas, editor of World of Interiors. One sits at his desk, pen poised, and issues barbed remarks to the other Bennett, who flutters about timidly, not knowing quite what to do. And it makes money as a print object, especially in Britain where there is still a robust newsstand culture and an appreciation for print (In 2019, ad revenue for The World of Interiors outperformed the market, Ms. Redmayne said. He could summon any number of exceptions and variations with his fluid vocabulary of detail. No good arguments have been advanced for it. Gallery; . I dont know. Carol Prisant, the New York editor, was an antique dealer whod never written for magazines before she penned a query letter to Ms. Hogg and was hired, in 1989.
Hamish Bowles Appointed the New Editor in Chief of - Vogue More or less immediately after I had taken my final picture a huge furniture van turned up and by lunchtime the house was stripped bare even the fireplace was removed still warm from the night before.
Thriving print curio for lovers of ink - The Business Times Who is Alan Bennett? Talking Heads creator, actor and screenwright So are Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and the photographer Tim Walker. My parents were quite shy and, looking back, it felt they had made shy into a virtue and I believed that, he tells me. One day I asked him how you can tell a fake from a genuine thing. 4/9 The main living room of Christopher Bailey's Yorkshire farmhouse. And World of Interiors is the only magazine that Ive kept and trooped around the world wherever Ive lived, he said. The World of Interiors is produced in a corner of the second floor of Vogue House, the publisher's drably charming brown-brick building in central London. Professional designers refer to it as their 'bible'. I can say I love England. He and Thomas use the east coast mainline regularly to visit their house in Yorkshire; the line was renationalised after the financial crisis in 2009, but privatised again early in 2015, which he says was pure ideology on the part of the Conservative-led coalition. "Eclectic, but not nearly as edgy as Los Angeles," says Rupert Thomas, deputy editor of World of Interiors, a magazine published in London and read worldwide. We had already become friends due to his collaboration with my husband Patrick on South Wraxall Manor, an extraordinary house they restored and transformed together, so I knew what a pair of thoughtful perfectionists I needed to satisfy.
New York Interiors a book by Karen Howes, Simon Upton, and Rupert Thomas By the time he worked on a project he always made a point of getting to know his clients in the most perceptive and psychological manner, working out what would make them feel nurtured, comfortable and safe in their houses. Courteous and self-effacing when I arrived on a shoot, he would always make the best of the day, but it was clear that he didnt really enjoy the scrutiny of his work through the lens of a camera, and at times seemed equally unsure of appearing in magazines. The pair live in Primrose Hill in London.
Every corner tells a story in the early 18th-century Greenwich home of artist Emily Patrick and her framer husband, Michael. If Simon Upton, one of the magazines star freelance photographers, is dispatched to the United States, he will be assigned two or three projects to make the trip cost-effective. That is true of me, I think. The other candidates had stopped talking about these things., The Conservatives, meanwhile, are quite close to a totalitarian attitude, he says. I became more leftwing. Recently, its been The Shepherds Life, a memoir of farming in the Lake District by James Rebanks (a very good book). He will in turn be a hard act to follow, so I can only wish his successor, Hamish Bowles, well in whatever minor modifications he makes, preferably as few as possible. Rupert Thomas is editor in chief of World of Interiors. The Cond Nast editor discusses his favourite markets, his favourite restaurant in New York and the treasure lying around his house. Still, the magazine has never come across as snobby, because three pages after Clarence House can come, say, the house-turned-museum that an African-American couple, a poet and her postal-worker husband, built in Lynchburg, Va., in 1903 and decorated with recycled materials and great flair. For example this, from an 80s fly-on-the-wall documentary he collaborated on, about a hotel in Harrogate: For years, hotels and restaurants were for me theatres of humiliation and the business of eating in public every bit as fraught with risk and shame as taking ones clothes off. The performance of going to a cafe would include his parents ordering a pot of tea, then smuggling bits of bread and butter, brought from home, to the young Bennett and his brother under the table while the waitress wasnt looking enough to turn any boy self-conscious. Lord of the light box: Rupert Thomas, the editor in chief of The World of Interiors, at the magazines office in London. In October, the magazine unveiled The World of Interiors Index, an online directory of antique dealers, gallerists, upholsters and the like that will generate no great fortunes for Cond Nast. Full name. You dont feel the hand of advertisers, publicists or digital panic on every page. No. My sneakers are where I left them. Stimulating, occasionally heavy duty, delightful and testing in equal measure, Robert asked us to work as a team and we set about recording five of his own houses and several others he had created for exceptional clients he particularly loved, in England, France and the Caribbean. The issue took editor Rupert Thomas most of a year to . They are also useful decrypters of taste, and this famous literary diarist is clearly a connoisseur of other literary diarists. I think Prunella Scales got her precisely right on the stage. Stand in the middle, turn in a circle and get the four walls. He was looking for someone to run the shop and I seemed to fit the bill. A striking visual homage by leading interiors photographer Simon Upton In his first book, renowned interiors photographer Simon Upton turns his camera on one of his most-loved destinations in this personal exploration of fashionable homes in New York City.
New York Interiors by Rupert Thomas - 9780865653887 - Book Depository Other subscription queries can be directed tocondenast@subscription.co.uk. Even now, I find myself going to Vivienne Westwood and buying 'drunken' trousers that are lop-sided. About the author. The office is one largish room with deeply scuffed wood floors, a drop ceiling and windows overlooking green Hanover Square. He gets on the tube with his backpack. The course, though, was lovely, idyllic. I was so nervous it was painful, really. Rupert goes into the office for a meeting with the management of Cond Nast and, after 21 years as editor of World of Interiors, gives in his resignation. His own work continues slowly: he goes to his desk each morning at 10.30am; and Hytner has an old screenplay of his, once written for John Schlesinger but never made, that might turn into something. And thats throwing thought at it. The glamorising of her that has happened has nothing to do with anything, really its just exploiting her. I assume he means Helen Mirrens more recent take in the film The Queen, and on stage in The Audience. Though every element was considered to the nth degree, in Roberts hands a colour, a textile, or the placing of a lamp looked natural and unforced, as if those things had come together over years to create one happy whole. 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. His friend Alastair Langlands, who wrote the 2015 monograph Robert Kime (Frances Lincoln), was astonished when he saw the habitually gentle, soft-voiced Robert in operation at antique fairs: He was extraordinary, always first at the gate as it opened, deciding instantly what he wanted, concluding deals at lightning speed.. For years after, The World of Interiors shared office space with the Cond Nast circulation department in another building across town, leaving it physically and metaphorically apart. 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. Cond Nast London The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street London, WC2N 6HT, United Kingdom Pigeonholed. All that remained were the pictures we had taken and the memories of that exquisitely designed and furnished place, which like my memories of him, are indelible. He is the editor of The World of Interiors magazine. When Frances Lincoln asked Robert Kime to make a book about his work in 2014, naturally I was both delighted and daunted when he rang and said that after much thought he had settled on me as his first choice for the new photography. To begin with, not surprisingly, she didnt get on with Rupert, but then she became ill and she became closer to Rupert than she was to me, really. She was, he says, very beautiful. Alan Bennett (left) with Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings, during the filming of The Lady In The Van. But we were never like that, he said. The people who produce it, he said, are all artistic bohemian types.
San Francisco Style / What's our role in the world of design? - SFGATE Then by the 15.33 train to Leeds. Its a much kinder world, is the theatre, than literature. It was about five foot higher when we bought the house. The garden is so small that it makes birds look enormous.
The Guardian profile: Alan Bennett | Theatre | The Guardian 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. 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). Few magazines are as resistant to the winds of change as The World of Interiors, which has had only two editors in its 40-year history.Come January, it will get its third. The World of Interiors has a tiny staff of 13, many of whom have worked there for years, aging happily in place, after arriving in roundabout ways. I find them an inspiration. Having a fragment makes it human. I bought it cheap. Share James spends the summer with relatives in the country.
World of Rupert Thomas, editor of The World of Interiors - The Telegraph Walk to work I'm not good at getting up in the morning, but I actively look forward to the daily walk to work through Regent's Park. 192 pages, Paperback. 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. 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. It's better to write by hand rather than just send an email or return pictures with a compliments slip. Professionally, Hytner gets the mixture of encouragement and criticism exactly right, Bennett says. (As a student, Harty invited Vivien Leigh round to his rooms for drinks, a most unBennett-like act.) A highly experienced and inspirational business leader, who sits on the Fortnum & Mason Executive as Chief Commercial Officer. WOW! Having already been offered a place to study at the university the following year, he realised that other people on the Russian course had won scholarships so he reapplied, this time to Oxford.