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Almanac Glasses Case
£9.95£2.97 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 Designed to inform and delight the public, these rare prints can be enjoyed as works of art and as important historical documents, revealing much about the social, political and artistic world of the Old Regime. -
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Mimi Plush Mynah Bird
£6.50£4.50 More info & buy Mimi is a Rothschild Mynah (Leucopsar rothschildi), discovered in Bali in 1911 by avian expert Dr Erwin Stresemann. He named it after his friend, the naturalist Walter Rothschild, who founded his own museum of natural history at Tring, which is still open to the public. Rothschild Mynahs are critically endangered (there are more giant pandas in the wild), but conservation projects, like the one run at Waddesdon Aviary, help to preserve this rare and beautiful bird. -
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Mimi Waterbottle
£7.95£3.97 More info & buy Mimi is a Rothschild Mynah (Leucopsar rothschildi), discovered in Bali in 1911 by avian expert Dr Erwin Stresemann. He named it after his friend, the naturalist Walter Rothschild, who founded his own museum of natural history at Tring, which is still open to the public. Rothschild Mynahs are critically endangered (there are more giant pandas in the wild), but conservation projects, like the one run at Waddesdon Aviary, help to preserve this rare and beautiful bird. -
Botanical Print Watch
£34.95 More info & buy Leather wallcoverings were produced principally in the Low Countries from the late 16th century onwards, copying an Islamic tradition with origins in Moorish Spain. Richly decorated, the leather is stamped to create designs, dyed and then gilded. The design used on this range has been adapted from the leather wallcovering in the Bachelors’ Wing. -
Gold Leather Bookmark
£3.75 More info & buy Leather wallcoverings were produced principally in the Low Countries from the late 16th century onwards, copying an Islamic tradition with origins in Moorish Spain. Richly decorated, the leather is stamped to create designs, dyed and then gilded. The design used on this range has been adapted from the leather wallcovering in the Bachelors' Wing. -
Curtains Oilcloth Make Up Bag
£9.95 More info & buy Waddesdon has a very important collection of original curtains and wall silks. They are late nineteenth-century re-weaves of French patterns from the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries from Tassinari and Châtel (established in 1762). Baron Ferdinand chose carefully for each room, provided with fabric samples, and placing orders via Decour, a decorator’s firm in Paris. -
Curtains Oilcloth Wash Bag
£12.95 More info & buy Waddesdon has a very important collection of original curtains and wall silks. They are late nineteenth-century re-weaves of French patterns from the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries from Tassinari and Châtel (established in 1762). Baron Ferdinand chose carefully for each room, provided with fabric samples, and placing orders via Decour, a decorator's firm in Paris. -
Flett Bertram Book Bag
£14.95 More info & buy Waddesdon’s famous collection of porcelain has inspired historians, manufacturers and artists for decades. Inspired by the Sèvres colours and floral motifs, Flett Bertram has created these stylish, exclusive homeware designs. Flett is a graduate of Embroidery at the London College of Fashion. Now working in Paris for haute couture houses, she ensures old passementerie is kept alive. Passementerie is the art of making elaborate trimmings or edgings of braided metallic cords, embroidery, coloured silk or beads and used as embellishment on furnishings. This technique is used extensively in Waddesdon. -
Flett Bertram Silk Scarf
£39.95 More info & buy Waddesdon’s famous collections of porcelain have inspired historians, manufacturers and artists for decades. Inspired by Sevres’ colours and floral motifs, Flett Bertram has been commissioned to create these stylish new designs. Flett is a graduate of Embroidery at the London College of Fashion. Now working in Paris for haute couture houses, she ensures old passementerie are kept alive. Passementerie is the art of making elaborate trimmings or edgings of braided metallic cords, embroidery, coloured silk or beads and used as embellishment on furnishings. It is used extensively in Waddesdon. -
Sèvres Plate Tote Bag
£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. -
Meissen Bird Cufflinks
£14.95 More info & buy Baroness Edmond began collecting buttons in the late 19th century, at a time when it was fashionable to acquire French bibelots (ornaments) of the 18th century. She bequeathed these to her daughter in law, Dorothy, writing “I give to my dear Dolly the Indo Chinese coffer containing my collection of buttons. I also give her the antique buttons that decorate my dresses and coats”. The buttons were later displayed by Dorothy in wall cases and many can now be seen in the Goodwood Room in Waddesdon. This includes a selection of Meissen porcelain buttons from Germany which have inspired these designs. -
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Mary Katrantzou Butterfly Print Turquoise Silk Scarf
£215.00£110.00 More info & buy Waddesdon's 2017 summer exhibition features three couture gowns, designed by renowned fashion designer, Mary Katrantzou. Mary says "All my prints are constructed through digital technology. Digital print allows me to experiment with print in a way that fine art and other methods could not. It opens up a huge spectrum for possibility; I can create possibility out of impossibility, surrealism out of realism and both vice versa.” We are thrilled Mary has designed these products for Waddesdon. See the full Creatures & Creations collection > -
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Mary Katrantzou Butterfly Print Pink Silk Scarf
£215.00£110.00 More info & buy Waddesdon's 2017 summer exhibition features three couture gowns, designed by renowned fashion designer, Mary Katrantzou. Mary says "All my prints are constructed through digital technology. Digital print allows me to experiment with print in a way that fine art and other methods could not. It opens up a huge spectrum for possibility; I can create possibility out of impossibility, surrealism out of realism and both vice versa.” We are thrilled Mary has designed these products for Waddesdon. See the full Creatures & Creations collection > -
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Platon H Umbrella
£34.50£30.00 More info & buy Waddesdon's 2017 summer exhibition includes work by artist Platon H. Platon H uses advanced digital techniques to reveal the prevously unseen beauty of animals, birds and insects discovered by or named after the naturalist Walter Rothschild (1868-1937). Our product range uses Platon's variations on madecassia rothschildi, often know as The Jewel Beetle. -
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Platon H Silk Pocket Square
£9.95£7.95 More info & buy Waddesdon's 2017 summer exhibition includes work by artist Platon H. Platon H uses advanced digital techniques to reveal the prevously unseen beauty of animals, birds and insects discovered by or named after the naturalist Walter Rothschild (1868-1937). Our product range uses Platon's variations on madecassia rothschildi, often know as The Jewel Beetle. -
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Platon H Silk Tie
£24.95£19.95 More info & buy Waddesdon's 2017 summer exhibition includes work by artist Platon H. Platon H uses advanced digital techniques to reveal the prevously unseen beauty of animals, birds and insects discovered by or named after the naturalist Walter Rothschild (1868-1937). Our product range uses Platon's variations on madecassia rothschildi, often know as The Jewel Beetle. -
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Platon H Silk Poshmina
£135.00£95.00 More info & buy Waddesdon's 2017 summer exhibition includes work by artist Platon H. Platon H uses advanced digital techniques to reveal the prevously unseen beauty of animals, birds and insects discovered by or named after the naturalist Walter Rothschild (1868-1937). Our product range uses Platon's variations on madecassia rothschildi, often know as The Jewel Beetle.
