Things have been really busy for us at the moment - all that Olympics watching has been very time consuming for a start! But we decided we just had to make time to go on another exploratory outing and so yesterday we took ourselves along to the lovely city of Rochester. Not only does it boast a great little
fabric shop but several quaint antique shops that are definitely worth a visit. We struck gold this time at two of our favourite shops
Kaizen Antiques and
Memories and here are the two beauties that we just could not resist.
This beautiful original bird cage is circa 1920 and made of metal fretwork coiled and twisted to form a delicate curvaceous shape. Although it needs a good clean (it currently boasts authentic remains from its days as a cage!) it will soon happily slip in amongst our other treasures in the home.
The lamp base is 1950's
Rye Pottery in fabulous tones of green glaze which overlaps to form a tartan pattern and as soon as we saw it we knew we had to have it. The 1950's are one of our favourite eras for pattern; for us it's that perfect balance of organic and scientific.
This base makes us think of images of a leaf under a microscope and of course it was crying out to be adorned by our very own St Paul's lamp shade in blue.
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