The Blanchard Collective

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Address: LITTLECOTE ROAD FROXFIELD Town: Nr Marlborough Area: Wiltshire Postcode: SN8 3JY Telephone: 01488 686139 Fax: 01488 683496 Email: margaret@blanchardcollective.com Website: visit our website Google map Click here

Description A Unique Venue with 18 Dealers The 'new' Blanchard Collective has been open for almost a year and our dealers are looking forward to developing their businesses during 2010. The combined appeal of attractive and sensibly prices items, from the traditional to the downright quirky, has proved very popular. The purpose built premises comprise 6000sq ft on two floors, and pieces can be seen in a stimulating environment, which allows business clients to appreciate and view the pieces at their own leisure. The idea behind the business is to locate within easy reach of London and other popular areas, a collection of 18 separate dealerships specialising in antiques, contemporary furniture and decorative items from which to supply trade buyers, and, particularly, interior designers. With the current trend of mixing styles within homes and commercial premises, the wide choice of pieces found at The Blanchard Collective offers endless alternatives to reflect this way of living and working today. List of Dealers Josephine Ryan is an antiques dealer and stylist. France - Its lifestyle, climate and furniture - is one of her greatest passions.Over the past 16 years she has developed her own distinctive look, and loves discovering unusual, one-off pieces, and combining the unexpected. Lynda Franklin In the twenty years that Lynda Franklin has been dealing in antiques in the Hungerford area, she has built up a reputation for creating wonderful French country house style, and has a loyal following of both trade and private clients. Lynda is also an interior decorator in her own right with a wealth of experience both locally and in Europe. Daniel Mankowitz started dealing in antiques thirty years ago. His look is totally eclectic, reflecting a mixture of styles and periods – from Roman sculpture to Renaissance furniture, Art Deco to contemporary photography. Pennireve Designs was established in 1989 by Gilly Watkins who for the last twenty years has undertaken a diverse array of decoration projects for both private and commercial clients. The challenge of creating rooms which are visually stimulating, elegant, and alluring is what inspires Gilly and her team. Believing that all rooms can be given a totally new feel merely by changing a few key details, they use their creative flair to carefully source imaginative and unusual period and contemporary ‘finishing touches’ and larger pieces, often combining different styles and eras. Tyson Ltd  Dealer Biography shall be updated soon. Gallery Yacou is a family-owned business established over four generations specialising in antique, decorative and contemporary carpets. Their exciting collection of both Oriental and European weaves mostly dating to the 19th and early 20th centuries have been acquired from four corners of the globe, and have been carefully selected for their individuality, quality, age, interesting colour schemes and unique decorative appeal. Robyn works with many interior designers and architects on projects which range in scale from modern apartments to country houses to grand listed buildings. Fontaine  For over fourteen years, Stuart Atkinson and Kiel Shaw have been sourcing French decorative furniture & interesting items from the 18th to 20th century. Now based in France, their look is informal with a relaxed approach, buying what they love and could live with. Fontaine regularly exhibit at the Decorative Fair at Battersea. Marnie Moyle.  The style of Marnie Moyle’s furniture is such that most pieces work equally well inside or outside depending on the look the decorator wishes to achieve. Inside gives a more contemporary look to the furniture, whilst outside it has a more traditional feel. Its versatility, design and unique carving are its hallmarks. Pennard House specialise in quality farmhouse tables and chairs with a good selection of mirrors, upholstered furniture and decorative accessories. Anthony Outred.  Established for over 30 years, we are recognized worldwide as specialists in exceptional Furniture, Works of Art and Sculpture and Antique Door Furniture. Anthony Outred is also a member of BADA and CINOA. Alston and Ashton deal in stylish French and English period furniture and decorative items. Ashton Gower.  Chris Gower originally trained as an actor at both The Welsh College of Music & Drama and at RADA. He became both actor and theatre administrator in the UK and Africa before opening Ashton Gower Antiques in Burford in 1986. He has extensive experience in various centres in London and the West Country both as a dealer and in general management. More recently he has been the Managing Editor of ‘Antique Interiors’, and is now well-known on television as a presenter and expert for Granada and the BBC. He is the face of ‘Find a Fortune’, ‘Trading Treasures’ and ‘Sun, Sea & Bargain Spotting’, as well as a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 2 and Marcelline Herald places emphasis on individual pieces of antique furniture with a view to their practical and decorative use in the modern home. She deals in 17th to 20th century furniture, mirrors and objects – the link is style, quality and line.LBC. Patrick Macintosh and Richard Nadin have over 50 years experience between them and deal in Country House Furniture and accessories from the 17th to the 20th centuries, with a particular emphasis on the Arts and Crafts movement. They exhibit at both the Fine Art fairs at Olympia and the Decorative Fair at Battersea. In addition,, Patrick has a showroom in an 18th century hamstone mews building in the heart of the lovely medieval town of Sherbourne in Dorset Blanchard is known the world over for its unusual mix of Continental, English country house and C20th pieces, which create an exciting depth and range of choice. Orlando Harris buys what he likes so be prepared for the unexpected.  Blanchard also have a shop on the Pimlico Road where some of the items shown here are displayed. Nicholas Gifford-Mead is a successful antiques business based on the Pimlico Road dealing in fine antique chimneypieces and fire furniture.  With over thirty years experience Nicholas travels world-wide to source the best pieces and is particularly keen on originality and provenance.