‘wimpole’ AW12
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Chichi Luo’s AW12 collection is inspired by her previous visiting at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. After this inspiring visiting, she fell in love with the atmosphere of modern people come across this historical country house, discover the beauty of polish which left from years passing of time. She took these inspirations for her collection by focusing on the interior elements at Wimpole including antiques from different periods, curtains in amazing textiles, paintings and vintage crystal lamps, and combine them to modern clean silhouettes. Crystal glass, tassels, furniture fabrics, mohair etc. are frequently used in the whole collection.
photography and styling by Chichi Luo
modelling by Xiaoyan Hong
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photography by Chichi Luo oct/2011
more_ http://chichiluo.com/photography/
original post:
http://chichiluo.com/2011/10/30/wimpole/
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about Wimpole Hall_
First built in 1643 and much altered by subsequent owners, Wimpole has developed into the largest country house in Cambridgeshire. Wimpole’s owners employed noted architects of their day to make alterations to the Hall: Lord Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford employed James Gibbs; the Earls of Hardwicke during their period of ownership from 1740- 1895 employed Henry Flitcroft, Sir John Soane and Henry Kendall. Evidence of the work of all of these architects can be seen today, but the most notable work is that of Soane. Examples include: the Bathhouse, Book Room and the striking Yellow Drawing Room. Mrs. Elsie Bambridge, the last owner of Wimpole, who bequeathed her estate to the National Trust in 1976. Bought in 1938 Wimpole Hall was devoid of any furniture or paintings and Mrs Bambridge spent her life trying to return some of them. What you see today at Wimpole is a culmination of development of the earlier owners and the collection assembled by Captain George and Elsie Bambridge. (via. www.wimpole.org) more information: National Trust: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/ Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire: http://www.wimpole.org/
