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For an Insight into Architectural
Heritage projects, in-situ photography
and other interesting features. This page is updated regularly.
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Testimonials:
"We
LOVE our fountain and perhaps I'll send a picture one day soon.
It looks as though it was made for the niche and basin where
it now resides. A pleasure doing business with you.
Best wishes!"
"The urns you carved
are truly beautiful, and a wonderful addition and enhancement
to a spectactular home - perfect! Thanks for your lovely work."
''Alex, again, thanks
to you and Architectural Heritage for continuing to supply the
most unique new and antique garden artifacts for us. Such detail
is one of the things that helps set our gardens apart from the
expected. It has been and will continue to be a pleasure doing
business with you''.
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Recently completed
Hotel commission for two Hand Carved Stone Chimneypieces
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A Two Tier Fountain
and Hevingham Hall Urn on Neo-Classical Pedestal in-situ
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Bespoke Stonework
- A Pair of Hand Carved Stone Urns after the Lead Originals
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DEDCOREX INTERNATIONAL 2006
Some images of the Architectural Heritage Stand
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THE RHS CHELSEA FLOWER
SHOW 2006
Some images of our Stand for which we were proud to receive
a Commendation
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Garden Ornament
supplied by Architectural Heritage to a Client in Essex
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Photography by Robin
Chanda
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Photography by Robin Chanda
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A Bespoke Hand
Carved Stone Chimneypiece set within an an impressive Entrance
Hall
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An example of
our Circular Pool Surround with Lower Tier Fountain used as
a forecourt driveway island
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Stone Balustrading
and Pair of Lead Cherubs on Spheres supplied by Architectural
Heritage for the Country Life Magazine Award Winning Garden
at The Chelsea Flower Show 1997
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An example of
our Single Tier Fountain set within a Square Pool Surround
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An adapted version
of our Palace of Westminster Chimneypiece in-situ
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A mid 19th Century
Curved Portland Stone Seat currently available
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Project in Ireland,
Hand Carved Stone Lion on Plinth
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A recently completed
panelling project for a client in Norfolk.
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A rather romantic
image of 'Mercury in the Fog' here at Taddington.
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Some in-situ photographs
of this massive 18th Century Northern European
statuary marble figure of Bacchus, the God of Wine.
(See Garden Ornament/Statues page for more details)
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Entryway carved from
natural limestone for a client in Ireland.
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An Antique Terracotta
Fountain by Blanchard, Circa.1850,
installed in a client's garden in the Cotswolds.
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Recently installed Two Tier Fountain
with raised Parterre Pool Surround
supplied to a client in Yorkshire
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Recently installed
ornament supplied to a client in Oxfordshire
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Bespoke hand carved natural limestone 'Hardwick Manor' Chimneypiece |
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A wonderful
19th Century Istrian Marble Fountain, purchased by Architectural
Heritage
from the Lord Leverhum Collection.
This piece was fully cleaned and restored
and is now situated in a private residence in Santa Monica,
California.
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Antique
limestone Chimneypiece and Panelling supplied to a client
in central London
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A magnificient hand
carved stone Chimneypiece
commissioned by a client in Ireland
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Two antique chimneypieces
purchased from Architectural Heritage
now installed in a New Jersey mansion.
Courtesy of Elle Décor Magazine. Photographer Simon
Upton.
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A hand carved stone
portico commissioned by a client in the Cotswolds
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Below is a Feature on Architectural
Heritage in Garden UK September 2003
Publisher
Conran Octopus
'Garden UK is a comprehensive guide to
the best Garden shops in the UK, including interviews with top
garden designers. The very best in British garden retailers
are selected, showcasing the most exceptional design-led products
on the market'
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How many businesses do you know with an on-site
helipad? The Puddy family's vast collection of rare and important
antique garden ornaments is a major international resource for
designers and high-profile private clients who literally drop
in from all over the world to see what's on offer. A pair of
seventeenth-century limestone sea horses from an Italian villa
are among the gems at the very top end of the market. Originally
forming the central feature of a large fountain now no longer
in existence, the web-footed fish-tailed stallions were rescued
and kept in storage since the time of the Second World War until
purchased by Architectural Heritage. Another extraordinary piece
of history hails from a country house in Essex: a massive Georgian
sandstone column with a hexagonal top, each side is fitted with
a sundial and then the whole lot is topped with a weathervane.
Among smaller pieces are classically inspired figures in stone
and lead, urns, fountains and garden seats. There are a thousand
or so items on display in two acres of grounds, and assorted
galleries, barns and outbuildings housing chimney-pieces, fireplaces
and entire panelled rooms.
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In addition, the company has an exclusive collection
of historically accurate garden ornaments hand-carved in natural
limestone after antique originals. The Country House Archive
includes temples, Renaissance, neo-classical, Georgian and Baroque
seats, obelisks, plinths and three styles of wellhead. There
are further pieces in artificial stone including a fawn, a hare
and a heron, various fountains and an enigmatic sphinx.
As if all this weren't enough, there are modern
castings in bronze of a figure of Narcissus found in the excavations
at Pompeii, of the seated Mercury discovered in 1758 at Herculaneum
and of Donatello's David commissioned by Cosimo de Medici for
his palace in Florence. There are cast-lead statues too, and
following the discovery of an archive of original plaster moulds,
biscuit terracotta figurines of the kind found in eighteenth-
and nineteenth-century French gardens. Most exquisite of all
are hand-carved reproductions in marble of Greek and Roman originals
- but if you have to ask the price, then I'm afraid you can't
afford them.
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PRODUCTS INCLUDE:
Benches & tables
Cast-bronze figures
Cast-lead statues
Chimney pieces
Columns
Finials
Fountains
Gates
Hand-carved
Marble figures
Limestone garden ornaments
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Obelisks
Pergolas
Plinths
Staddle stones
Statues
Sundials
Terracotta figurines
Tree seats
Troughs
Urns
Weathervanes
Wellheads
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Our Two Tier Fountain and Circular Pool
Surround shown in-situ
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An illustration of a bespoke hand carved
stone fire surround shown in-situ
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Architectural Heritage are proud to be a member
of ACID (Anti copying in Design). Established in 1996 ACID's
cofounders Dids Macdonald, formerly of Holbein, and lawyer Simon
Clark of City solicitors Theodore Goddard, started by canvassing
small design-led business about their experience of copying
and in so doing discovered the enormity of the problem. Their
solution was to create, with Theodore Goddard, the answer to
the small business fear of taking action against the giant manufacturers
and retailers who profit by stealing and then copying ideas.
ACID (Anti copying in Design), is the hard hitting
action group committed to combating copyright infringement and
setting design industry standards of the future.
ACID PROVIDE: Legal, protection with the backing
of a major law firm with a global network and Litigation insurance
- to cover the costs of legal action against infringers.
ACID HAS:
- Advised 60% of its members on copyright
problems.
- Obtained 30 successful settlements out of
30.
- Represented over 80 member companies.
- Actively lobbied for improvements to the
competition bill.
- Networked with other trade associations and
governments bodies.
- Sponsored and provided educational seminars
at the New Designers Show.
- Secured the backing of exhibition organisers
for ROVING LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES.
- At trade shows, on hand to deal with copying
problems as they occur.
CONTACT:
ACID copying in design,
150 Aldersgate Street,
London,
EC1A 4FJ.
T: +44 (0) 1531 650476
F: +44 (0) 1531 650885
E-mail: help@acid.uk.com
Web: www.acid.uk.com
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