For about a year, anybody who wanted to see me got a little preamble: Im on sabbatical.
Amazingly, no one batted an eyelid.
Thats quite hard to do if youre running an architectural design studio with 40 people working in it.
Charlotte Dellal enlisted Pentreath to enliven their Hampshire home with color and personality.
Pentreaths head-down approach wasnt always so.
Does it belong on the architecture shelf?
Or the town planning shelf, or the interior decoration shelf?
Inside the always-in-use kitchen of Skye McAlpine in Wadsworth, London.
Pentreath asked about the book early on.
Another atypical element ofAn English Visionis that it was fully photographed by Pentreath himself.
He had to be on set anyway, so he might as well take the photos.
A burst of dahlias in the living room of Pentreath’s own home in London.
Prior to this project, Pentreath says he didnt know his way around a camera.
(He claims he hasnt a clue to this day, even if the images prove otherwise.)
So began his sabbatical, which resulted in a book that showcases Pentreaths eye in all its exacting detail.
Faux-malachite walls add sumptuousness to a home in Regent’s Park, London.
Returning to his homes, sometimes decades later, only served to reveal their full potential.
I really need them to do that themselves with things they love.
Seeing how people are making these houses their homes.
Pentreath oversaw the interiors of Chettle, which stands among the finest English Baroque houses.
Thats the process I really love.
The 18th-century plasterwork was painted in contrasting shades of stone at Chettle, in Dorset.
In a Regency home in Wiltshire, a ping-pong table packs a playful punch.
Pentreath’s own home in Mid-Argyll, Scotland. A tin bathtub in the breakfast room allows for cozy soaks by the fire.
The first phase of the new town Tornagrain, with the curve of CroyRoad in the foreground.
A view of Croy Square in Tornagrain, Scotland.
The whimsy-filled bar of Charlotte Delall’s home.
The hearth at a brick-floored home in Tuscany, in the unpretentious and agricultural town of Gaiole, Chianti.
A new build with an always-was charm in Oxfordshire.
