GLAMPING: Jollydays, North Yorkshire
Words & Prodution: Claire Bingham; Pictures: GAP Interiors/Chris Tubbs
WITH THE realisation that the simplest things can be glamorous, upscaled camping has become the current ultimate outdoor experience. Rekindling a love affair with the great outdoors with her luxury-tented accommodation in the vale of York [see left and below in the gallery], Carolyn van Outersterp shows Claire Bingham how to have the perfect family camping holiday - even in the snow!
The family: Carolyn and husband and their four children Galatea (14) Midori (13), Angel (6) and Alto (8) live in an 18th century listed farmhouse a couple of minutes drive away from the woodland.
Claire Bingham: How did Jollydays come about?
Carolyn van Outersterp: For a long time it has been our dream. For all the years whilst we were running our business CVO Firevault [an upmarket fireplace company] in London it was something we always wanted to do. What directly influenced the decision was a trip to a friend’s wedding in Uganda where we all camped on the snowy slopes of Mount Kenya. That was when the idea really got lodged in my brain. I thought, if they can do it here…
Posted 12 December 2011 in Lifestyle + Interiors, Travel
GOING GLOBAL: world decor
Illustration by Sara Barnes
DON’T BE SURPRISED if your friend’s six year old’s passport is as full of exotic stamps as your own. Our children’s generation understands travel like never before.
Whether it’s because of our own globe-trotting preferences (we are the cheap-flights, itchy feet generation), or because our families tend to be divided by thousands of miles and seas where they once were divided by mere tens or hundreds of miles, our children are au fait with, and completely at home with, the scope of the world… for them the globe holds not so much wonder but a firm belief that they will visit the locations they read about in their favourite books, or where the relatives they regularly Skype reside. None of it is out of bounds.
BozAround: travel en famille
PLANNING YOUR SUMMER holiday right now? If you need inspiration seek out Vanessa Boz’s new travel blog, BozAround, an inspiring and informative family travel sourcebook.
French-born Vanessa (pictured below with her son Marcelo as a baby) has had plenty of travel experience. In her dayjobs as co-creator of the Bubble children’s design trade shows in New York and London, and as the London-based correspondent of the superchic French tome, MilK magazine, Vanessa spends her time travelling between the three hippest cities in the world. She has lived in all three cities, travels regularly for work and fun, and spends her summers in Cesme, Turkey, with her Turkish husband and father of her two children, Marcelo and Amalya. She is now a children’s brand advisor.
Posted 24 March 2010 in Travel
BUNK MATE: Ace hotel bunks
LOOK NO FURTHER for inspiration for your pre-teen or teenage son’s room than the recently opened Ace Hotel in New York. One of our (male) colleagues spent a couple of days there recently and is still extolling the virtues of the large canvas laundry bags with Navy-style typography, the masculine-chic toiletries from Rudy’s barbershop, the blankets embroidered with the Ace logo, and the mix of vintage and new interiors, devised by NYC design firm, Roman & Williams.
Our favourite part, however, confirms the return of the bunkbed: the ensuite bunk rooms in the NYC hotel are a perfect stopover for singles, guys on their stag weekends, grown-ups reliving their childhoods, or teens who you’d prefer to have their own room. We can’t help falling in love with the almost military issue, sleek, fuss-free, heavy-duty, powder-coated bunks sourced from American Bedding that would clearly last a lifetime and beyond. Can we have, please?
*Bunk rooms in March 2010 are approximately £150 per night. www.acehotel.com. Ace Hotel New York City, 20W 29th Street, New York City, NY 10001; tel: + 212 679 2222.
LITTLEBIG LOVES… Center Parcs. Yes, really.
By Jenny Dalton
“I THINK IT’S LIKE a secret club,” says Tara Bernerd of interior designer outfit Target Living. “The more people you ask the more admit they’ve been, but no one really talks about it.”
No, we’re not talking rehab, but Center Parcs. This, says Tara over lunch, includes her nephews and nieces who have been with Bernerd (her sister isn’t brave enough), who herself fell for the place during her research into Center Parcs’ major interior re-design renovation project, which her design company is spearheading. It also includes one of Tara’s new clients: the head of a huge telecommunications company, who took his son for his birthday.
Yes, you heard right. Center Parcs, in a bid to seal its status as the new, cool eco destination for caring parents around the country who are keen on lowering their carbon footprint whilst giving their kids a traditional yet safe ‘outdoorsy’ holiday, brought in the fashionable design team behind Marco, the Marco Pierre White restaurant in Chelsea, and Aspinall’s casino last year to renovate a good proportion of its more upmarket lodges. And luckily Tara, who loves a luxury development, gets equal kicks out of lower-budget design challenges, which she manages to carry out in her own inimitable style whilst avoiding a Read the rest of this article
Posted 14 April 2009 in Travel
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