Jane Mcintyre Design on Southgate Street, Winchester
was unveiled this year by interior designer Jane Mcintyre.
Jane provides two
floors of beautiful and sort after high quality interior accessories, bed
linens, lighting, clothing, gifts, furniture, art, fixtures, tableware sourced
from around the globe that you will struggle to find else where.
The likes of Bella Notte Linens from the US
and Astier De Villatte tableware from France! As pictured here in the shop...
Also ibride – I was most impressed by the
ibride cabinet at Jane’s – I had only ever seen their trays in the press or at
Liberty.
Jane inimitably styles and fuses her finds
to create an inviting and evocative interior in which to shop and browse. You
are likely to fall in love and want to maintain regular sojourns to Jane’s
romantic place!
Jane and her staff are of great assistance
as required. Visitors really are fortunate to have her on hand, how often do
you meet both an interior designer and retailer in one sitting!
This rare combination sets her shop and
services apart. To find out more try a visit to Jane’s Website
where Jane spends a little time introducing
her skills in engaging with a customer brief and revealing
her passion through a very unintimidating approach to Interior Design
or Jane’s Blog – http://www.janemcintyredesign.com/blog/
I enjoyed one or two posts, March for
e.g. where Jane is required to tackle the necessaries of plumbing and clearing
a listed site before making it beautiful!
Snapshots of some of Jane’s projects and
Jane’s shop are available on the home page of her site with links together with
a round up of latest projects.
Above: 'Popora' Photo Scarf by Lily Gardner
Jane has been a designer, for the last 20 years.
I asked Jane one or two questions for fun as
follows:
Favourite quick cuisine or recipe book?
Nigella Lawson "Nigella Express"
because she gives you a store-cupboard basics shopping
list then allows you to marinade food in
a freezer bag and stick it in the fridge until you remember to cook it. She is brilliant at short cuts, my type of
cook!
Favourite movie?
Gone With the Wind, almost know it word for word, closely followed by every version of
Wuthering Heights, though hard to beat the original with Laurence Olivier and
Merle Oberon.
Above: Actress Vivien Leigh in 'Gone with The Wind'
Favourite song? When I Fall in Love by Nat King Cole
and everything by Elvis.
Would most like to meet? Elvis Presley
1 or 2 future plans... To finally finish my house and
then conquer the world of design.
When not designing & retailing what is your favourite thing to do? Be outdoors with my dogs and horses.
One of your favourite style era's when not in the
present! Prairie style,for clothes and buildings. (Eternal cowgirl!)
Favourite architect or fashion designer? English architect Edwin Lutyens, one or two examples of whose work can be seen below, he worked with the Sitwells and is famous for his landmark scheme in New Delhi...
Above: Edwin Lutyens, one or two examples of his work.
But this is not the end of the story,
Jane’s interest in historic buildings and the preserve of history and it’s relationship
to interior design are perhaps what informs the journey from the New Forest to
Winchester for Jane.
Also an interest in what follows once you
have a space and this careful and skilled measure and placement of decoration,
furnishing and immersing in order to transform a place and space in to a home
you value.
I am delighted to have Jane as my Winchester stockist.
Visit Jane’s shop & get talking! :>
