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Cornwall by Weekend Journals – BLACKFRIDAY20 Discount Code

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Cornwall by Weekend Journals is a new, inspirational, travel book for design-conscious travellers, featuring a curated selection of places across the county.

Cover

Following extensive research and time spent travelling round Cornwall, the Weekend Journals team have uncovered unique and special venues: from verdant gardens to visionary galleries, independent shops and exceptional restaurants. The book is written by Milly Kenny-Ryder and produced by Simon Lovell. They both have strong family links to Cornwall and have been visiting since they were young. Using these connections they have gone off the beaten track to discover the venues that the locals love, while also showcasing some of Cornwall’s most iconic sites and stories.

Coombeshead Farm Feature

The book features 40 venues including: Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Chapel House, Leach Pottery, No. 56, Coombeshead Farm, Plumbline, Paul Ainsworth at No. 6, Hotel Tresanton, Fifteen Cornwall and Jubilee Pool, as well as many other hotels, restaurants, cafes, shops, galleries and places to visit all over Cornwall. It includes exclusive interviews with 2-michelin starred chef, Nathan Outlaw, prestigious hotelier, Olga Polizzi, up-and-coming designer, Tom Raffield, and Cornwall’s only hotel concierge, Sid Williams of The Idle Rocks.

Photography is by Gabriel Kenny-Ryder and is exclusive to Weekend Journals. All venues have been visited personally by the Weekend Journals team.

Lay-flat photo

The book is available to order through the Weekend Journals website here. For this Friday and Saturday only WJ are offering 20% of all orders with the code BLACKFRIDAY20. Limited Edition gift packs also include a signed, large-format, fine art print of a photo from the book, or you can order a set of 10 postcards featuring images from the book.

Giftpack Print (Logan Rock)

Book Specification:

165 x 215 mm
Threadsewn, 128 pages
Printed full-colour on FSC certified uncoated paper
Debossed and foiled cover
RRP: £15.00
Published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by Weekend Journals Ltd
ISBN: 9781527200869

© Weekend Journals Ltd. All rights reserved. All text and images are exclusive to Weekend Journals Ltd and may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, in part or in whole for any use without prior written permission.

The book is a high-quality physical product – contemporary and minimal in style with a focus on the pictorial element. It has been designed to appeal as a collectible memento that people will want to keep and display, rather than as a functional, throw-away guidebook. It is a limited edition of 2,000 copies. There is no advertising or paid promotion within the book.

 

You can also follow @weekendjournals on Instagram.

Hot on the Highstreet Week 251

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On 2nd April Vintage Classics will release a 150th anniversary gift edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with a cover and introduction by designer Dame Vivienne Westwood. The special edition of Lewis Carroll’s classic also includes end papers by the fashion designer, as well as Through The Looking Glass and the original Tenniel illustrations. It is a fitting collaboration as Westwood’s Red Label Autumn-Winter 2011/12 catwalk show was inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Vintage Books said: “From her catwalk shows inspired by Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures to her world-famous British inspired collections, Dame Vivienne Westwood has always seen the world through the looking glass. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of her favourite children’s story she has created a unique front cover and end paper for this very special edition. Vivienne has also contributed an introduction to explain her passion for Lewis Carroll’s classic and how it links to her personal manifesto for change.”

The special edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland will be released on 2nd April as a £15 hardback. It is available to pre-order now from Amazon here.

BOOK PREVIEW: A Fridge For A Picasso by John Jesse

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A Fridge for a Picasso is a highly entertaining autobiography which begins during the Blitz in London where John Jesse grew up under the same roof as Francis Bacon. He later attended experimental schools, joined the army, and subsequently studied Fine Art.

Swapping his Picasso for a fridge turns out to be the catalyst that inspires him to be a dealer and, in the early sixties, he sets up a stall in Portobello Market. Through a series of coincidences he becomes the first member of the trade to specialise in the then misunderstood and neglected style of Art Nouveau, inciting a passerby to hiss ‘How dare you lower the tone of Portobello Road!’ Undaunted, John Jesse soon moves on to an even more outrageous period: the 1920s which, at his suggestion, is given the name Art Deco. After two years he opens his gallery John Jesse on Kensington Church Street, which becomes a fashionable destination for pop idols, film stars and artists: Sir Paul McCartney, Luchino Visconti, Rudolf Nureyev, Elizabeth Taylor, Charles Handley-Read, Andy Warhol, Lucian Freud, Brad Pitt and even on one occasion Dame Edna Everage.

Often gaffe prone, he owns up to some hilarious amorous disasters, including provoking an unusual response from Germaine Greer when he attempts to play footsie with her under the table.

John Jesse treats life as an adventure; addicted to hunting for merchandise, buying at auctions, searching flea markets… always in the pursuit of style.

With dedication, hard work and his unerring eye for the obscure and unique, he establishes himself as a leading dealer of Twentieth Century Decorative Arts, becoming well known to collectors and museums worldwide.

The book is full of racy anecdotes and is richly illustrated with Jesse’s drawings and photographs of the wonderful pieces he unearthed and exhibited in his Notting Hill Gate gallery.

Pre-order A Fridge For A Picasso on Amazon here.

Author: John Jesse

ISBN: 978-0-9575568-8-1 Publication Date: 30th Sept 2014 Pages: 255
Type: Hardback
Size: 210x140mm
RPP: £15.00
Distributor: Central Books Muswell Press Ltd www.muswell-press.co.uk