Summer inspiration at Another Country’s Marylebone store

I’ve previously written about Marylebone’s new shop, Another Country (have a reminder here); it’s a contemporary craft furniture company set up by the founding publisher of Wallpaper* magazine. At the weekend they kindly invited me, along with fellow blogger Lucy from Decorenvy (check out her post here), to style up their products at their showroom in Marylebone, a stone’s throw away from the High Street. Another Country’s designs are just my sort of style: modest, well-designed and sustainably manufactured. They say:

Our designs are inspired by archetype, calling on the familiar and unpretentious forms of British Country kitchen style, Shaker, traditional Scandinavian and Japanese woodwork for inspiration. We make use of traditional and modern craft techniques, endeavour to produce our product and run our business in a sustainable and responsible manner, and design for products to last.

So they have simple three-legged stools, elegant solid wood dining tables and a collection of accessories, from ceramics to linen napkins. These are complemented by David Mellor cutlery, bespoke linen by 31 Chapel Lane and Ian McIntyre pottery. For our styling session we wanted to reference the natural textures and hues of the products, as well as their hand crafted yet hard working qualities, by using muted tones and what look like handpicked, wild flowers. We paired the tableware with scatters of berries and some exquisite raspberry and blackberry tarts from La Pâtisserie des Rêves. The word rêves means dreams in French and there isn’t a more perfect description of their shop on Marylebone High Street. They have perfectly crisp millefeuilles, spongy Madeleines, meringue-topped tarte au citrons and sticky meringues, which we went for as you can see below. I thoroughly recommend it.

It was a really fun day in one of my favourite neighbourhoods; learning about their designs, getting hands-on with the products, getting messy with icing sugar and generally being creative. I’m really pleased with how the images turned out and I hope you enjoy them too! (more details of the products after the images)

    
All images: my own

Here are just some of the products used on the shoot, from a functional family of candlesticks to my favourite, the simple yet beautiful creamer.

(from clockwise, click for more details) 1: Stool One, 2: Dining Table Two, 3: Creamer, 4: Bowl, 5: Pitcher, 6: Ceramic Candlestick

Another Country’s showroom is located at: 18 Crawford Street, Marylebone, London, W1H 1BT