056 ANTIQUES
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Glam up your garden with a visit to salvage yards, fl ea markets and boot fairs in search of everything from antique and vintage arbours, statues, stone urns and cast iron tables and chairs
Jennie Buist Brown
designing. And, for me, this means the excitement of the start of the ‘hunting’ season with visits to salvage yards, fl ea markets
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and boot fairs in search of everything from antique and vintage arbours, statues, stone urns and cast iron tables and chairs.
I already have quite a haul of stuff but I can never
resist an old folding garden chair, a Regency bench or a Georgian urn. Luckily, as all of these are sought-after, I can always sell on some pieces to make way
pring has defi nitely sprung – gardens have burst into life and, if you’re lucky enough to have outside space, now is the time to begin planting and
for ‘new’ ones. For me, the attraction is simple – I love the patina on old pieces and the way they have weathered.
Whether you have a large garden or a small terrace, a piece of antique gardenalia (as it is now known) will add interest and beauty. You may not have room for a large statue or an arbour but even a small space looks great with fl ower-fi lled
antique terracotta pots or a small stone urn. Of
course, as with all antiques, there are designers
whose work is the most collectable and desirable. Eleanor Coade was
renowned in the 18th century for casting the most beautiful garden ornaments, statues and architectural decorations from her own-mix artifi cial
stone, which she devised so that it wouldn’t crack during a hard frost. Secondly, for the most incredible lead statues of fi gures, there is John Nost, a Flemish sculptor who worked in England in the late 17th and 18th centuries and whose work you can see in important country houses including Chatsworth, Hampton Court Palace and Castle Howard. Pieces by both of these designers are
really hard to fi nd and usually impossibly expensive but more common and more affordable are crisp, detailed and beautifully- fi nished works by Coalbrookdale, whose exquisite 19th century cast iron benches and garden furniture remain some of the most prized by collectors today.
The real thing
Luckily, because pieces by these designers are rare and expensive, they are also the most copied – with reproductions often
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