Ben Pentreath
Sat. December 1, 2012
My new book arrived yesterday evening, English Decoration by Ben Pentreath. Don’t let the title put you off if you are Welsh (tongue in cheek) the book has some lovely examples of Welsh things. Luscious interiors, in wonderful rich colours, decorated with antiques and collections of interesting bits and pieces such as spongeware, mochaware and delft. Mr Pentreath mentions how so many of his friendships are united by collections of mochaware mugs and jugs. When I read this, I remembered, the first gift Mr Bowen gave to me, was a rather lovely chipped and battered mochaware mug. Over the years our mochaware collection has grown considerably and will carry on growing no doubt. But then, you can never have enough mochaware.