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The Agenda is compiled by businesslife.co’s Fashion and Lifestyle Editor Thom O’Dwyer, with additional material by Danny Cobbs, and Jeffrey Chinn of Hettich Jewellers in St Helier.
1. Bathed in beauty The bathroom may be the smallest room in most houses, but it can still pack a serious punch when it comes to interior design. Thanks to specialist firms like Stiffkey Antique Bathrooms of Norwich, merely functional can become wildly fabulous. Dan Hide and partner Marc Brown started the company in 1985, inspired by Lucinda Lampton’s TV documentary and book Temples of Convenience and Chambers of Delight. Now they’re an internationally renowned dealer and restorer of French and English bathroom furniture and bespoke period bathroom accessories. Working with high-profile interior designers to recreate
vintage bathrooms at stately homes, hotels and historic buildings, they’ve also helped innumerable film and TV crews to replicate vintage bathrooms for sets. Both the Queen and Prince Charles have been customers, as well as a slew of A-listers. Their shop is a veritable treasure trove of the finest antique baths on the market, and you can rest assured all have been beautifully and expertly restored, resurfaced and updated for modern plumbing. Pictured here is a Second Empire French cast-iron bateau bath with nickel plated neoclassical feet made by the renowned French firm Rogeat et Cie, circa 1860. A real piece of history, and a bobby-dazzler to boot! £6,000, www.stiffkeybathrooms.com
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