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A pair accord 50’s glassy lamps able for his 30th confinement
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Roger Banks-Pye: Obituary
"Roger Banks-Pye is the most innovative talent working behind closed doors this century," proclaimed Louis Gropp, Editor-in-Chief of America's House Beautiful magazine, when discussing interior designers a few years ago.
Banks-Pye was the interior design director for the decorating division of Colefax & Fowler. At first glance his work appears quite traditional because of his predominant use of antiques, old pictures and accessories, but in fact he was always re-inventing so that conventional elements could be revitalised and seen anew.
Working for Colefax & Fowler had been Roger Banks-Pye's firm ambition even as a student, but it was not until 11 July 1977, on his 29th birthday, that this dream was realised. It was also some time after joining the famous decorating firm that his exceptional talent began to emerge. Unusually for an aspiring designer, he was put in charge of the antiques department, an appointment which lasted two years. He then transferred to the decorating team of Stanley Falconer and later that of Tom Parr, where he learnt the mechanics and grammar of decoration in the grand Colefax manner.
In recent years he was in much demand as a decorator. The very graphic and theatrical way he treated architecture exhibited a bold disregard
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A rug is the smarter choice over carpet in a kitchen
Mark Anthony FoxIf you’re acquainted with the work of the late musical comedy duo Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, you might also know of their 1956 song Design for Living, with its catchy refrain “We’re terribly House & Garden, at number 7b.” (Just in case not, I’ve put a link to it on YouTube.) As a child, I used to play it on repeat, finding hilarity in their charting of the ways they were designing an interior “that won’t disgrace our ‘House & Garden’ friends.” There were curtains made of straw, and “we’ve wallpapered the floor!” It got even better: “Have you a home that cries out to your every visitor: 'Here lives somebody who is exciting to know!' No? Well, why not collect those little metal bottle-tops and nail them upside down to the floor?” A hysterically insane – and uncomfortable – idea, right? Except that, recently, I was perusing the House & Garden Fifties House (a gem of a book; available on Amazon) and found an article entitled ‘Easy Ways to Easier Living’, taken from the April 1954 issue – which essentially advised the same, albeit by suggesting that readers should use those upside down metal bottletops nailed to a board, “in your own initials or a pretty pattern” as a shoe-sc