Living: Galette des Rois. Served in France

during Epiphany with a hidden ceramic fève.

Living: Mini prints by

John Dilnot at AIUK.

Living: 1965.

Éteint (présumé):

Julia Child's kitchen, 81, Roo de Loo, Paris.

Photographs by Paul Child.

R.I.P: Ronald Searle (1920-2011).

Extinct: Fashion forecast, Spring 1870.

Slippers at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Living: Loden-Plankl,

a Viennese family run business

established 1830.

Living: Millbrook holdall,

retrieved from the 1950s archives of

Brooks Saddles, Bags, Etc., est. 1866.

Living: Gillies at Crockett & Jones,

a family run company est 1879.

Living: Super Choc-o Food, a collaboration between

Valerie Confections and Commune Design, containing

darkened milk chocolate, a hint of caramel, dried pears,

apricots, golden raisins, macadamia nuts, cashews,

almonds, sunflower seeds and peanuts.

Extinct (generally): Yorkshire Christmas Pye.

"First make a good standing Crust, let the Wall and

Bottom be very thick; bone a Turkey, a Goose, a

Partridge and a Pigeon. Season them all very well.

Open the fowls all down the back and bone them;

first the pigeon, then the partridge, cover them; then

the fowl, then the goose, and then the turkey, which

must be large; lay them in the crust, then have a hare

ready cased [skinned] and wiped with a clean cloth.

Cut it to pieces; season it, and lay it as close as you

can to one side; on the other side woodcocks, moor

game, and what sort of wild fowl you can get. Put at

least four pounds of butter into the pye, then lay on

your lid, which must be a very thick one, and let it

be well baked. The crust will take a bushel of flour.

These pies are often sent to London in a box as

presents therefore the walls must be well built."

—Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery, 1747.

Still Life of a Pie, 1884, by Guillaume Fouace.

Shopping: Mushroom brush,

made by hand in Sweden,

at Ancient Industries UK.

Shopping: Fresh Laundry +

School Paper Glue scented candles in

galvanized buckets from Britanny,

at Ancient Industries.

Shopping: The Nutscene*

beech twine stand with cutter
at Ancient Industries UK.

*Those nice jute people
in Angus, Scotland.

Shopping: Buster Brown paper doll,

made by Shackman, at Ancient Industries.

Shopping: Cumbrian dipped Yorkshire

beeswax candles at Ancient Industries UK.

Shopping: Winter nature cards created

by John Dilnot at Ancient Industries UK.

Shopping: The new English town

sock selection, at Ancient Industries.

Shopping: German cookie cutters
from Ancient Industries UK.

Shopping:

The drip-free candle (patented 1900),

perforated vertically so the wax runs down

the centre, not the sides. From the Breton

company Bougies La Francaise,

available at Ancient Industries.

Shopping:
Mini enamel kinder ladles from Germany,
available at Ancient Industries UK.

Postcard from: Appenzellerland, Switzerland.

Photograph by Gabriele von Bülow Wilson.

Extinct: Edward Gorey at

Anchor Books, 1953-1960.

Draw everything including the type

with no more than 3 colours please.

More examples here.

Great Dixter

'We wanted a cottagey stately home kind of feel'

from Signs of the Times by Martin Parr, 1992

(not photographed at Great Dixter).

Living: The cottagey stately home at Great Dixter.

Extinct: Fashion illustration in Vogue.

Cecil Beaton drawings, photographs, costume

designs and book covers on show at the

Museum of the City of New York.

Introducing: The red ticking scarf.

Made by Johnstons of Elgin,

of silk, wool, linen + cashmere.

Available at Ancient Industries.

Satin waistcoat embroidered

with coloured silk, Gloucester, 1770

Living: The costume department at the

V & A, inspiration for The Tailor Gloucester.

"I have been delighted to find I may draw

some most beautiful 18th century clothes

at the South Kensington Museum."

—Beatrix Potter, 1903.

Living: The Horace Batten boot jack, patented 1929,

"it holds both the heel and the toe enabling the greatest

possible force to be used in removing the boot."