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Haeckels………

November 8, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? I am Dom Bridges, creator of Haeckels. Why Cliftonville? I guess to promote this side of Margate drag people up the hill to Cliftonville, sell the natural beauty & health benefits of living on the English coast. Strangely this very shop was one of the reasons why we moved here in the first place, we came for a drink here one night at Moonbow Jakes, nothing else seemed open for miles it felt like a beacon & […]

Categories: Heritage, Industrial, Margate, Uncategorized, Vintage • Tags: Beauty, Cliftonville, coastal, design, eastkent, Ernst Haeckel, Haeckel, health, interiordesign, interiors, kent, Lifestyle, London, margate, Pegwell Bay, Perfume, renovation, restoration, seaweed, Shopping, thanet, vintage

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Lauren & Noam………

October 25, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? Lauren Wright, curator and writer, and Noam Leshem, political geographer. Why Margate? Lauren: a job came up here in 2010 and when I came for interview I was overwhelmed by how beautiful it was from the minute I stepped off the train. We’d been living in London for over five years, and I didn’t realize how much I missed open sky (I’m from Colorado originally). Once I got the job, Noam came with me to look for […]

Categories: Heritage, Homes, Margate • Tags: architecture, Barack Obama, Daniel Schorr, design, eastkent, interiordesign, interiors, kent, Lifestyle, linocutboy, London, margate, Merce Cunningham, New York City, renovation, thanet

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Powell-Cotton Museum

October 11, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? I am Karen Botha, mother of two wonderful teenage boys, owner of two gorgeous Labradors & Director of the Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House & Gardens at Quex Park. I am passionate about wildlife conservation & am proud to advocate the work of conservation heroes here in the UK & in Africa who’s combat against poaching & wildlife crime are inspirational. I am also proud of the role that the Powell-Cotton Museum can, & has played in this fight. […]

Categories: Birchington, Heritage, Homes, Margate, Museums, Vintage • Tags: Africa, architecture, Birchington, design, Diorama, eastkent, Great Britain, India, interiordesign, kent, Lifestyle, London, margate, Museum, Powell-Cotton, Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex Park, Taxidermy, thanet

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RESORT STUDIOS……………..

September 27, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who Are You? Mr & Mrs Plant / BLOCK COLOUR. Dan Chilcott. Jo Willis – The Curio. Kim Conway, photographer & printer. Kate Harrison – illustrator. Steve Ibbitson & Francesca Flowers. Tamsin Landells – founding partner of R/L studio, Architect. Helder clara. Leise Wilson. Nick Morley. Rachel Taylor. Simon Medhurst & Dawn Weller. Angeli Yara. Teresa Limbrick. What does RESORT mean to you? Blockcolour – living the dream….Our studio is a part of our brain that inspires work on amazing things. Dan […]

Categories: Heritage, Industrial, Margate, studios • Tags: Angeli Yara, architecture, Art, blockcolour, Canterbury Festival, Cliftonville, Curio, Dan Chilcott, design, eastkent, fran flowers, helder clara, interiordesign, interiors, Jo Willis, kate harrison, kent, Kim Conway, leise wilson, Lifestyle, linocutboy, London, margate, R/L Studio, rachel taylor, renovation, RESORT, Resort Studios, restoration, salvage, Simon Medhurst & Dawn Weller, Steve Ibbitson, Tamsin Landells, Teresa Limbrick, thanet, vintage

Paula & Greg…………………….

August 2, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? Paula, Greg, Josh and Jake Patton. Why Broadstairs? It was love at first sight. We came for the day and ended up going home having bought a house. Broadstairs is the quintessential British seaside town. How do you define style? We don’t really have a specific style. We just buy things we love to look at. (Well, when we say we, most of our purchases involve Greg who is a junkyard/boot sale junkie!) Sometimes half the fun is figuring out exactly what […]

Categories: Broadstairs, Heritage, Homes, Vintage • Tags: architecture, Broadstairs, design, eastkent, interiordesign, interiors, kent, Lifestyle, London, margate, Ramsgate, reclamation, salvage, thanet, The Queen Charlotte, vintage

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Neil………………..

July 19, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? Neil Sparkes – Musician, Visual Artist, Writer. Why Margate? I grew up in Deal, Kent and have known and loved this coastline since I was a kid. I lived in Cuba in the 1990’s and find there’s a strange parallel to the Margate sea front and the Malecon in Havana, but with the uniquely British “out of season” months which I love. There seems to be a gravitational pull to the coast from the city. It was […]

Categories: Heritage, Homes, Industrial, Margate, Vintage • Tags: architecture, Arlington, Arlington House The Robert E. Lee Memorial, brutalism, brutalist architecture, design, eastkent, kent, London, margate, Orson Welles, Parker Knoll, thanet, Thelonious Monk, vintage, Visual arts

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The Chapel………..

June 21, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? I’m Julian Newick, owner of The Lifeboat Ale And Cider House in Margate and The Chapel in Broadstairs. Why Broadstairs? Question should perhaps be “Why Margate?” as that came first. Well, I wanted to run a business close to home in Cliftonville, employ local people and sell local produce. Margate was the only choice for me, and it turned out to be the right choice. Margate’s come such a long way in the last three years! In […]

Categories: Broadstairs, Heritage, Theatre / bars / restaurants • Tags: architecture, British Armed Forces, Broadstairs, Chapel, design, eastkent, interiors, kent, Listed building, London, margate, Mark Howe, restoration

The Tudor House……………….

May 24, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Thanet is steeped in history, we are lucky enough to wander through beautiful streets with incredible architecture on a daily basis and therefore it is easy to overlook something magnificent because it is so familiar to us. From time to time ‘The Curio’ is going to highlight some these buildings and what better place to start with than The Tudor House. A building that sits on the edge of the old town and has such a story to tell if […]

Categories: Heritage, Margate • Tags: architecture, Arts, eastkent, interiors, kent, London, margate, restoration, thanet, Thanet District Council, Trinity Square, Tudor, Tudor House

Julian…………..

April 5, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? I am a lot of things, a filmmaker, painter, gym obsessive and writer. I am obsessed by ‘personas’, so I am many different people. But not a ‘career’ driven person, and never a ‘square’. But I make money from manufacturing collectible dolls. Why Broadstairs? I still have a flat in London, but for me, down Thanet way, it’s got to be Broadstairs. Utterly unpretentious British seaside town with a gorgeous front and great people. How do you […]

Categories: Broadstairs, Homes, Vintage • Tags: architecture, Broadstairs, design, eastkent, Guy Debord, Harrods, interiordesign, interiors, kent, Lifestyle, London, Patti Smith, renovation, restoration, salvage, thanet