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Vintage Ideal Home

I find myself drawn to old magazines particularly interiors’ mags – no surprise there given my job. I pick them up in charity shops or on Ebay if I’ve a few idle moments. Those from the 50s and early 60s are fascinating and I’m always staggered at the amount of black and white features – we’re so used to seeing interior photography in glorious colour. Later ones especially those from the 70s have more resonance as that was when I was brought up – features on how to fill a chest freezer or where best to install a Finnish sauna take me back. The covers – always so important for sales – are especially evocative and I do feel that in many ways things have moved on for the better in some cases! These old Ideal Home magazines are so different photographically too…  Check these out and see if you agree…

Ideal Home magazine front covers, vintage

Vintage Ideal Home magazine front covers

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March 2013 magazine coverage

Great start to the year for interior photography with some lovely pieces being published… Homes and Gardens have just done two of my features, both houses shot in London towards the end of last year… The cover image is part of a feature we did about Lord David Herbert’s house… a lovely townhouse owned by the proprietor of David Seyfried Furniture,  who make beautiful upholstered furniture and are based at Chelsea Design Centre…. and the bottom row of images are part of a second feature about a house in North London owned by Mette Hardie… lovely use of Crittall windows….

March Homes and Gardens Photography

Photography for Homes and Gardens, house interiors in London…

 

Both of the above houses were quite different from another recently published piece, all about the wonderful Silvana De Soisson’s house in Wiltshire, covered for Country Living magazine.  We spent a great day there, while Silvana cooked lovely Pistachio biscuits and made us coffee… The house is cluttered and eccentric, and I’m sure you’ll agree, a picture-perfect home, cosy and inviting…. Silvana is the brains behind the ‘Foodie Bugle‘, an online food magazine thats fast becoming a ‘must read’ for those who know their pistachios….

Photography for Country Living Magazine

Photography for Country Living Magazine at Silvana’s house in Wiltshire

As you can see, all three houses involved different ways of working…. interior photography can involve lots of styling… taking ‘stuff’ out or adding carefully chosen bits to other shots.  A good interior stylist is worth his (actually, more often than not ‘her’!) weight in gold…. In the case of both the Homes and Gardens shoots, Alice Ridley did the honours, whilst Country Living’s own Caroline Reeves styled Silvana’s house…

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Magazine Interior Photography

Footballers and WAGs, millionaires, tanning and designer-shops…. it must be Cheshire! ;-) … I whizzed up the M6 on monday and did a house shoot for the estimable 25 Beautiful Homes Magazine… The house was lovely, the owners even more so, and I think we ended up with some really nice shots.  Interior photography is all about the light, and its important to move about the property so that the sun (or lack of it in this case!) coming through windows is the right intensity. I was worried the house would be too dull here, but, as you can see, its just right.  Many thanks to the owner for an immaculately prepared house, and plenty of props to style with…

Magazine photography for 25 Beautiful Homes

Magazine photography for 25 Beautiful Homes in Wilmslow

 

 

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Homes and Gardens April 2012

My garden and interior photography features heavily in the new Homes and Gardens magazine, with two house features and a garden piece.  The interiors were photographed last year in London, and one of them made the front cover… Stephen Woodhams let us shoot his beautiful flat in South London, and as you can imagine, being one of the (world’s?) top florists, the garden at the back was a treat…  The garden feature was of a place called Mitton Manor in Staffordshire and was a riot of colour in spring… the cherry trees played a big part here, and a well structured design was a backdrop to the fabulous blossom…  Thanks again to all the owners, and to Homes and Gardens as well, who are my best friends …when they put me on the cover ;-)

Homes and Gardens features, garden and interior photography, Mark Bolton

Homes and Gardens features

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Homes and Gardens Germany

Just got this through from German Homes and Gardens… this was a piece about interior designer Karen Howes and her country house that I shot last year… lovely kitchen…

karen howes interior designer

karen howes interior designer

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Restoration House in Kent, in Homes and Gardens

Here are some pics published on the H+G website… a beautiful old house and garden, well worth a visit…

Restoration house in kent

Restoration house in kent

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