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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.
