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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

A re-visit with the Mad Hatter……..

September 13, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Remind Us – Who are you? My Name is Peter Clements-Bullett. I own & run ‘The Mad Hatter Tea Rooms’ in Margate & I own & live in the yellow Christmas house on Margate seafront. How do the Interiors of your home and cafe differ? They are very similar, except my home is only decorated in yellow whilst the tea room has a red room upstairs & green toilets. Also I have even more objects in my home. How would you […]

Categories: Heritage, Homes, Margate, Vintage • Tags: antiques, architecture, Buckingham Palace, Christmas, Christmas decoration, design, eastkent, Fred Astaire, Holidays, interiordesign, interiors, kent, Lifestyle, margate, Peter, Television, thanet, The Mad Hatter, vintage

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The Garden Gate………………

August 23, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? Paul Boyce garden manager brought up in St Peters and Broadstairs and now live in Dumpton on the Broadstairs / Ramsgate border. The Garden Gate Project is an independent charity serving the people of Thanet, we work mainly with adults who either have learning difficulties and/or mental health issues, and we also work with local special schools providing work experience for their students. We have a lot of volunteers and our oldest member is 92. Children are […]

Categories: Gardens, Margate • Tags: Broadstairs, Community gardening, eastkent, Eric Cantona, garden, home grown, kent, Liam Brady, Lifestyle, margate, Pegwell Bay, thanet

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Margate Museum……………….

August 16, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? My Name is Ian Dickie, I am the Chairman of the Friends of Margate Museum, and I have held this position for the last three years. I am semi retired having worked in lecturing, healthcare and catering at all levels. Why do you have such a passion for the Margate Museum? I love history and having moved to Thanet in 1973, I wanted to find out as much as I could about the area. It is important to preserve […]

Categories: Heritage, Margate • Tags: antiques, architecture, Broadstairs, David Hurley, kent, Lifestyle, margate, Northern Belle, Sydney Fox, thanet, Turner, Turner Contemporary, vintage

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Hunting for beach hut interiors…….

August 9, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Categories: Broadstairs, Margate, Ramsgate • Tags: beach huts, Botany Bay, Broadstairs, eastkent, interiordesign, interiors, kent, Lifestyle, margate, Ramsgate, summer, thanet

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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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Richard………………………

July 26, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? I am Richard Harris a 44 year old stone mason who loves and champions Thanet. Why Margate / Broadstairs? We have sea on all sides of Thanet and I manage to see it at least once every day. If you were an animal, what would you be? An Arizonian barking toad. Describe a day in the life of a stonemason? No two days are the same and you are constantly learning, there is always something to challenge you. Object […]

Categories: Broadstairs, Heritage, Homes, Margate • Tags: Apple, Broadstairs, design, eastkent, garden, garden design, iPad, kent, landscape, Lifestyle, margate, Peter, Richard, Richard Harris, salvage, thanet

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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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Ben & Hayley………………………….

June 28, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? Benjamin. Hayley, and Caspar of Junk Deluxe fame. Why Ramsgate? A great sense of community. It’s lovely to know all the neighbours, and not being able to walk up the road without seeing people you know. How would you describe your style? Eclectic. If you were an animal, what would you be? Benjamin: a duck-billed platypus, Hayley: A chaffinch, Caspar: A dinosaur, sometimes he really thinks he already is. Best and worst thing about your move to […]

Categories: Homes, Ramsgate, Vintage • Tags: architecture, design, eastkent, interiordesign, interiors, kent, Lifestyle, margate, Ramsgate, renovation, thanet, vintage