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Everything in a Rose Uniacke interior breathes, lives and changes, so it is fitting that this unusually beautiful book of her own home should be re-presented for the spring, newly bound in a voluptuous, peach-herringbone wool, from Rose’s own fabric collection, the latest in our line of collector’s editions.
Lavishly illustrated, in gatefold, with Francois Halard’s incomparable and beautiful photographs, this is a reprint of the original, which was first published by Rizzoli in October 2021, bound in Rose Uniacke Light Weight Wool in Herringbone Juniper/Bay and later in Rose Uniacke Light Weight Wool in Herringbone Fox/Ginger. It comes in a raw canvas slipcase and it gives an account, in Rose’s own distinctive voice, both of her practice as a designer and of the loving restoration and evolution of her own home.
Introduced by Alice Rawsthorn and with text by Vincent van Duysen and Tom Stuart Smith this is a book that offers a privileged insight into a living space that unusually combines creativity and museum quality art, with family life; a book in which every page breathes the grace and peaceful beauty of Rose’s own home.
Available to purchase here.
We have a limited number of copies signed by Rose available here.
The elegant distinction of this softly textured, spun-silver cocktail shaker, with its beautiful accompanying goblets, makes it an ideal companion to Rose Uniacke’s exquisite and now newly returned line of Bohemian glassware.
These separate items sit beautifully side by side, harmonising in their pared-down simplicity, their responsiveness to light, and the play of sparkle and reflection on their different surfaces.
As with all Rose Uniacke objects the understatement of their design belies the intricacy and extraordinary expertise of their making. Each in their separate traditions, are the products of a craftsmanship whose origins stretch back into the distant past.
The shaker and goblets are made of British silver by a process known as spinning, first recorded in ancient Egypt - a trade so technically complex, it is now on the critically endangered Heritage Crafts list.
Hand-spun and then hand-hammered by the last hammer craftsman in Sheffield, the objects have a beautiful dimpled surface, like water, softening and holding the light and deepening the silver’s natural range of colour.
The glasses are all hand-blown in the Czech Republic in the centuries-old Bohemian tradition, from the purest lead-free, crystal glass. Combining inspiration from the Viennese Secessionist movement with the Bohemian tradition of drawing on the natural world, they are delicately swirled, from stem to bowl, like wind-ruffled water.
Side by side, these lovely objects sit, as if in conversation - silver and glass, telling us of water.