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Port, Cherry and Chocolate Gift Box
£43.95£39.95 More info & buy Fonseca port house dates back to 1815, and is the only house to have produced four 100 point wines, pair with Bodrato chocolate covered cherries and Favarger swiss dark chocolate for the perfect after dinner treat. Please ensure that you carefully decant the crusted port - it is not unusual to find a fairly substantial sediment which is responsible for the wonderful depth and layers of fruit and spice. The Bodrato chocolates are a speciality produced using hand dipped cherries which are macerated in grappa - and certainly not suitable for children. This gift case contains the following items; 1 x 100g Favarger Swiss Cassis Chocolate 4 x single Bodrato cherries 1 x 75cl bottle of Fonseca crusted port -
Sèvres Mini Chocolate Bars
£9.95 More info & buy Waddesdon holds a renowned collection of Sèvres porcelain including a 235 piece dinner and dessert service, ordered by Marie-Antoinette in 1781 and “bleu celeste”, specially designed for Louis XV. Baron Edmond de Rothschild commissioned watercolours of designs for Sèvres dinner service plates in the 1880s from Madam Zeppenfeld. She copied the plate designs from an album preserved in the Sèvres archives, dating from the 1780's. -
Destailleur Waddesdon Luxury Dark Chocolate
£2.95 More info & buy Inspired by Château de Valois, Baron Ferdinand employed Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur to build him his own French-style country house, with magnificent towers and external staircases such as he had seen while in Touraine. Destailleur submitted elaborate plans to Baron Ferdinand for a vast mansion, nearly twice the length of the house as built, with a ballroom and a winter garden. Although the architect warned him that ‘one always builds too small’; Ferdinand wanted the scale reduced and a new design was approved, a mistake Ferdinand later rued. In 1883 the completion of the house was celebrated with the first of many house parties. -
Destailleur Waddesdon Luxury Milk Chocolate
£2.95 More info & buy Inspired by Château de Valois, Baron Ferdinand employed Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur to build him his own French-style country house, with magnificent towers and external staircases such as he had seen while in Touraine. Destailleur submitted elaborate plans to Baron Ferdinand for a vast mansion, nearly twice the length of the house as built, with a ballroom and a winter garden. Although the architect warned him that ‘one always builds too small’; Ferdinand wanted the scale reduced and a new design was approved, a mistake Ferdinand later rued. In 1883 the completion of the house was celebrated with the first of many house parties. -
Destailleur Waddesdon Luxury Orange Milk Chocolate
£2.95 More info & buy Inspired by Château de Valois, Baron Ferdinand employed Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur to build him his own French-style country house, with magnificent towers and external staircases such as he had seen while in Touraine. Destailleur submitted elaborate plans to Baron Ferdinand for a vast mansion, nearly twice the length of the house as built, with a ballroom and a winter garden. Although the architect warned him that ‘one always builds too small’; Ferdinand wanted the scale reduced and a new design was approved, a mistake Ferdinand later rued. In 1883 the completion of the house was celebrated with the first of many house parties. -
Almanac Glasses Case
£9.95 More info & buy Waddesdon's house exhibition, 2017 is Glorious Years, a celebration of the power of the printed image before photography. An exhibition of rare calendars, published in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries, from their golden period under Louis XIV, through to the Revolution, when time itself was re-invented, with new ways of illustrating and naming the days and years. Designed to inform and delight the public, these rare prints can be enjoyed as works of art and as important historical documents, revealing much about the social, political and artistic world of the Old Regime. -
Almanac Mug
£9.95 More info & buy Waddesdon's house exhibition, 2017 is Glorious Years, a celebration of the power of the printed image before photography. An exhibition of rare calendars, published in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries, from their golden period under Louis XIV, through to the Revolution, when time itself was re-invented, with new ways of illustrating and naming the days and years. Designed to inform and delight the public, these rare prints can be enjoyed as works of art and as important historical documents, revealing much about the social, political and artistic world of the Old Regime. -
Almanac Padblock
£6.95 More info & buy Waddesdon's house exhibition, 2017 is Glorious Years, a celebration of the power of the printed image before photography. An exhibition of rare calendars, published in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries, from their golden period under Louis XIV, through to the Revolution, when time itself was re-invented, with new ways of illustrating and naming the days and years. Designed to inform and delight the public, these rare prints can be enjoyed as works of art and as important historical documents, revealing much about the social, political and artistic world of the Old Regime. -
Almanac Slanted Notepad
£3.95 More info & buy Waddesdon's house exhibition, 2017 is Glorious Years, a celebration of the power of the printed image before photography. An exhibition of rare calendars, published in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries, from their golden period under Louis XIV, through to the Revolution, when time itself was re-invented, with new ways of illustrating and naming the days and years. Designed to inform and delight the public, these rare prints can be enjoyed as works of art and as important historical documents, revealing much about the social, political and artistic world of the Old Regime. -
Almanac Umbrella
£34.50 More info & buy Waddesdon's house exhibition, 2017 is Glorious Years, a celebration of the power of the printed image before photography. An exhibition of rare calendars, published in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries, from their golden period under Louis XIV, through to the Revolution, when time itself was re-invented, with new ways of illustrating and naming the days and years. Designed to inform and delight the public, these rare prints can be enjoyed as works of art and as important historical documents, revealing much about the social, political and artistic world of the Old Regime.
