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The Birds of Waddesdon notebook
£15.95 Buy In conjunction with the heralded exhibition Flights of Fancy, the Birds of Waddesdon is a new bespoke range celebrating the birds that are looked after in the Aviary here at Waddesdon. Built in 1889 and filled with colourful and exotic birds, the much loved Aviary at Waddesdon plays an important role in conservation breeding projects of endangered species. Around one third of the species in the Aviary are at risk of extinction to some degree. Illustrated by British artist Madeleine Floyd, our favourite feathered friends are now able to come home with you and brighten up your own nest whilst helping to support the valuable work that is being done to further the conservation work that has long been associated with the Rothschild family. -
Sèvres notebook
£15.95 Buy In collaboration with the Flights of Fancy exhibition, the Sèvres Collection is a beautifully designed bespoke range inspired by the eighteenth century Razumovsky porcelain dessert service, one of the many treasures to be found at Waddesdon Manor. Almost all of the 108 original pieces have survived in their entirety, each one hand painted by different painters including Louis-Denis Armand l’aîné, who was well known for his incredibly intricate paintings of exotic birds. Illustrated and designed by British artist Madeleine Floyd, soft feathered plumes and elegant porcelain shapes dance together in a contemporary design that admires the past and adds charm to the future. -
Guercino postcard pack
£3.50 Buy Over 350 years since they were painted, five paintings by renowned Bolognese painter Guercino are on display together for the first time at Waddesdon in a new exhibition. This historic exhibition spotlights one of the great painters of 17th-century Italy, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (1591-1666). Brought together for the first time since leaving the artist’s studio in 1651, are Waddesdon’s King David alongside two associated paintings of sibyls from the National Gallery and another sibyl from the Royal Collection, painted the same year. Also on display and never before seen in public is Guercino’s recently rediscovered depiction of Moses. This is one of the most important additions to Guercino’s body of work and adds to our understanding of his early maturity, a period considered by many to be his greatest for the dynamism, vigour and spontaneity of his painting. -
The Birds of Waddesdon notecard set
£7.50 Buy In conjunction with the heralded exhibition Flights of Fancy, the Birds of Waddesdon is a new bespoke range celebrating the birds that are looked after in the Aviary here at Waddesdon. Built in 1889 and filled with colourful and exotic birds, the much loved Aviary at Waddesdon plays an important role in conservation breeding projects of endangered species. Around one third of the species in the Aviary are at risk of extinction to some degree. Illustrated by British artist Madeleine Floyd, our favourite feathered friends are now able to come home with you and brighten up your own nest whilst helping to support the valuable work that is being done to further the conservation work that has long been associated with the Rothschild family. -
Sèvres notecard pack
£9.25 Buy In collaboration with the Flights of Fancy exhibition, the Sèvres Collection is a beautifully designed bespoke range inspired by the eighteenth century Razumovsky porcelain dessert service, one of the many treasures to be found at Waddesdon Manor. Almost all of the 108 original pieces have survived in their entirety, each one hand painted by different painters including Louis-Denis Armand l’aîné, who was well known for his incredibly intricate paintings of exotic birds. Illustrated and designed by British artist Madeleine Floyd, soft feathered plumes and elegant porcelain shapes dance together in a contemporary design that admires the past and adds charm to the future. -
À la mode greeting card (single)
£2.95 Buy In collaboration with the Flights of Fancy exhibition, the Sèvres Collection is a beautifully designed bespoke range inspired by the eighteenth century Razumovsky porcelain dessert service, one of the many treasures to be found at Waddesdon Manor. Almost all of the 108 original pieces have survived in their entirety, each one hand painted by different painters including Louis-Denis Armand l’aîné, who was well known for his incredibly intricate paintings of exotic birds. Illustrated and designed by British artist Madeleine Floyd, soft feathered plumes and elegant porcelain shapes dance together in a contemporary design that admires the past and adds charm to the future. -
Ooh là là! greeting card (single)
£2.95 Buy In collaboration with the Flights of Fancy exhibition, the Sèvres Collection is a beautifully designed bespoke range inspired by the eighteenth century Razumovsky porcelain dessert service, one of the many treasures to be found at Waddesdon Manor. Almost all of the 108 original pieces have survived in their entirety, each one hand painted by different painters including Louis-Denis Armand l’aîné, who was well known for his incredibly intricate paintings of exotic birds. Illustrated and designed by British artist Madeleine Floyd, soft feathered plumes and elegant porcelain shapes dance together in a contemporary design that admires the past and adds charm to the future. -
Je t’adore greeting card (single)
£2.95 Buy In collaboration with the Flights of Fancy exhibition, the Sèvres Collection is a beautifully designed bespoke range inspired by the eighteenth century Razumovsky porcelain dessert service, one of the many treasures to be found at Waddesdon Manor. Almost all of the 108 original pieces have survived in their entirety, each one hand painted by different painters including Louis-Denis Armand l’aîné, who was well known for his incredibly intricate paintings of exotic birds. Illustrated and designed by British artist Madeleine Floyd, soft feathered plumes and elegant porcelain shapes dance together in a contemporary design that admires the past and adds charm to the future. -
C’est la vie greeting card (single)
£2.95 Buy In collaboration with the Flights of Fancy exhibition, the Sèvres Collection is a beautifully designed bespoke range inspired by the eighteenth century Razumovsky porcelain dessert service, one of the many treasures to be found at Waddesdon Manor. Almost all of the 108 original pieces have survived in their entirety, each one hand painted by different painters including Louis-Denis Armand l’aîné, who was well known for his incredibly intricate paintings of exotic birds. Illustrated and designed by British artist Madeleine Floyd, soft feathered plumes and elegant porcelain shapes dance together in a contemporary design that admires the past and adds charm to the future. -
Rothschild Mynah bookmark
£4.95 Buy In conjunction with the heralded exhibition Flights of Fancy, the Birds of Waddesdon is a new bespoke range celebrating the birds that are looked after in the Aviary here at Waddesdon. Built in 1889 and filled with colourful and exotic birds, the much loved Aviary at Waddesdon plays an important role in conservation breeding projects of endangered species. Around one third of the species in the Aviary are at risk of extinction to some degree. Illustrated by British artist Madeleine Floyd, our favourite feathered friends are now able to come home with you and brighten up your own nest whilst helping to support the valuable work that is being done to further the conservation work that has long been associated with the Rothschild family. -
Wedding Cake note cards and postcards by Katherine Jones
£3.25 – £4.25 Buy Joana Vasconcelos: Wedding Cake The Wedding Cake at Waddesdon is a 12-metre-tall ceramic sculptural pavilion in the form of a three-tiered cake, a major Rothschild Foundation commission from celebrated Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. Visitors can step inside this astonishing work of art and enjoy a unique, richly sensory experience.Part sculpture, part architectural garden folly, the extraordinary structure is a celebration of love, festivity and joy. It is inspired by the exuberant Baroque buildings and decorative ceramic traditions of Lisbon, where Vasconcelos lives and works.Thousands of gleaming, icing-like ceramic tiles decorate the cake, all made in a traditional Portuguese manufactory and glazed in pale pinks, greens and blues. Further adorned with sculptural ornament and complete with the sounds of trickling water. -
Waddesdon Manor note cards by Katherine Jones
£3.50 – £15.00 Buy Illustrations exclusively for Waddesdon Manor by Katherine Jones. Katherine is an award-winning artist and architect based in Cardiff. www.katherinemgjones.com Card and paper envelope both recycled. Standard cards – A6 size Long card -210x100mm -
Eythrope postcard pack
£10.00 Buy Miss Alice de Rothschild , creator of Eythrope, was a passionate and knowledgeable horticulturalist, renowned for her perfectionism and innovation. The walled garden at Eythrope was and is a productive garden, which supplied vegetables, fruit, herbs and cut flowers for her household, friends and family. Today, alongside the family, produce is used in Waddesdon’s restaurants, hotel and food markets. A working garden on this scale is rare in the 21st century and Eythrope is legendary in the garden world for the excellence of gardening and as a haven for traditional techniques that might otherwise be lost. -
Gustave Moreau: The Fables A4 Watercolour Notepad
£17.50 Buy Moreau’s watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau’s ‘ keen apprehension of the weird.’ There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour – many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau’s storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau’s visions. Prints after Moreau’s Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau’s response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine’s canonical work, whose sources include Aesop’s fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times. -
Gustave Moreau: The Fables A5 Lined Journal
£10.95 Buy Moreau’s watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau’s ‘ keen apprehension of the weird.’ There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour – many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau’s storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau’s visions. Prints after Moreau’s Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau’s response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine’s canonical work, whose sources include Aesop’s fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times. -
Mimi My Reward Chart
£7.95 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 Memo Block
£9.95 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. -
Botanical Print Pen Pot Hexagonal
£9.95 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. -
Flett Bertram Notecard Wallet
£5.50 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 exclusive 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. -
Sèvres Porcelain Fridge Magnet Set of 8
£6.50 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. -
Pompadour Notebook
£11.95 Buy This fine portrait has not been attributed to a particular artist, but it demonstrates knowledge of several portraits, including those by François Boucher (1703-1770). These portraits were central to Pomadour’s self-presentation, carefully designed to captivate the King. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (1721-1764), Marquise de Pompadour, was the acknowledged mistress – ‘maîtresse-en-titre’ – of King Louis XV from 1745 until her death. -
Portraits Notecard Wallet
£6.50 Buy Portraits of real people as gods, goddesses or personifications of Seasons or Virtues were common in the 18th century. The French artist Jean-Marc Nattier painted this unknown woman as a River Goddess in around 1738. Thomas Gainsborough used characteristically brilliant brushwork in this portrait of Frances Browne, Mrs John Douglas, painted in 1783-1784 and included in his first private exhibition. Little is known about the sitter.
