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Now, most guests enter via that west wing. The ingredients here set the tone for the rooms that follow. \u2018It is as much about the compositions I\u2019m creating as it is about the process of gathering things and, in a way, that feels personal,\u2019 says Jonathan of his approach. Scagliola blocks, used as a coffee table, take their shape from the boulders on the hillside, their surface mimicking the colours of the lichen. Chairs by Edwin Lutyens, once owned by the furniture designer and businessman Ambrose Heal, mix with triangular stools by Charlotte Perriand. On top of a cabinet by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, made for the Glasgow School of Art<\/a>, are pieces from Jonathan\u2019s collection of studio pottery. Behind them is one of Graeme\u2019s recent works \u2013 a view looking up through the trees<\/a> to the sky \u2013 and a votive stone given to them by the dry-stone waller.<\/p>\n

In response to their new life in Wensleydale, Graeme has made trees the focus of his work, exploring their sculptural forms, textures and chameleonic colouring. For his latest project, he has collaborated with Stephens Tapestry Studio in South Africa. One work commands attention on the main staircase when I visit, others are hanging in the art gallery, Thorns, which they have created from a derelict barn in the valley below. The synergy between Graeme\u2019s work and that of David Nash, an artist whose work Jonathan has collected for years, is immediately obvious. Both artists are observers, reading the tree and what they see with little reinvention, allowing their subject to do the speaking.<\/p>\n

\"Displayed<\/p>\n

Displayed on top of a wall cabinet by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, salvaged from a Scottish butler\u2019s pantry, are ceramics by Paul Philp.<\/p>\n

Michael Sinclair<\/p>\n

Studio pottery is everywhere, particularly pieces by Bernard Leach and Michael Cardew. Jonathan seeks out examples that potters have chosen to keep, finding that \u2018often in the earlier pieces, you see a purer expression of the artist\u2019s intent\u2019. He is also drawn to Leach\u2019s later creations, made after he had met his wife, fellow potter Janet: \u2018When I buy, I\u2019m always bearing in mind the shifts where the magic was happening.\u2019<\/p>\n

Furniture designed by Jonathan sits alongside collected pieces throughout the house. Much of the metalwork \u2013 tables, benches, a television stand \u2013 is by James Morris of Yorkshire-based Sculptsteel. Jonathan grew up with Mouseman furniture and now collaborates with Ian Thompson Cartwright, the founder\u2019s great-grandson, to create contemporary oak pieces that make the most of Mouseman\u2019s sculptor-like way of working, each bearing the signature carved mouse. The textile artist Catarina Riccabona has taken inspiration from the Dales landscape\u2019s colours and shape for the curtains<\/a>, weaving fabric by the length for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, most guests enter via that west wing. The ingredients here set the tone for the rooms that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[63632,307,304,305,306,13345,308,63631,93,1807,51933,61,60,63629,63633,63630],"class_list":["post-103093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-artists-at-home","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-country","tag-design","tag-designers-houses","tag-entertainment","tag-houses","tag-houses-belonging-to-interesting-people","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-modern-country","tag-modern-houses","tag-old-houses-with-contemporary-interiors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}