Tat London Journal

One of our first posts on Instagram, way back when it was still quite unusual to share anything other than your breakfast or a mass of cherry blossom, featured a photograph that has stayed with me ever since. It was the bathroom of Garth Gell Farmhouse in Wales, a building dating back to 1805 that had been left to fall into ruin since the middle of the last century.

I saw something on Instagram where someone was pontificating, saying "maybe it's time to re-embrace brown furniture." What a load of baloney.

After the Battle of the Boyne of 1690, a new Irish social world began to take shape and the great classical houses of the eighteenth century speak of a more settled time. The Anglo-Irish elite were confirmed in their estates, and a century of relative stability ensued. The great century of Irish Georgian architecture and craftsmanship had begun. Renaissance ideas of symmetry and classical details were arriving in a country where the ancient romans never reached, and gradually