March 11, 2021 - 15:39 GMT Bridie Wilkins Amanda Holden's QVC collection features within her own house with husband Chris Hughes and their children, and the new collection is to die for. Amanda Holden launched her first Bundleberry homeware line with QVC back in 2017, and four years later, the collection is thriving. The Britain's Got Talent judge's SS21 drop covers both home and garden, complete with bits that she has in her very own house with her husband, Chris Hughes and their daughters, Lexi and Hollie. The best bit? Each buy is super affordable, while Amanda has also shared her tips for styling them. Here are the five things to shop before they sell out… READ: Amanda Holden's two gorgeous homes will blow your mind 1. Galvanised trunks Set of 3 trunks, £84.96, QVC SHOP NOW Amanda's iconic trunks were a hit the first time around, and now she has updated them to have a galvanised finish. She added: "During the past year, we've all tried to improve our homes and outside space, and these trunks are a welcome addition to any patio, balcony or garden." SEE: Amanda Holden films epic £5k playhouse inside family garden 2. Faux plants Windowsill planter, £49, QVC SHOP NOW Amanda confessed that while she's not so good with real house plants, she has invested in faux house plants to "soften stark walls" and "brighten up dark corners". "They will keep looking healthy and colourful all year round," she explained. MORE: Amanda Holde n's home is a fully-fledged hotel - complete with spa and bar 3. Faux living walls Botanical living wall, £57, QVC SHOP NOW One of the biggest sell-outs of her past collections, Amanda has reimagined her faux living walls into various different plant species. She recommends using them to cover bare walls, or in areas where it's hard to grow any plants. 4. Light up lamps … [Read more...] about Amanda Holden’s gorgeous house is decorated with QVC homeware – these are the bits to buy
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Helen Marden’s Bitter, Lucky Light
Photo: Artwork © Helen Marden. Photo: Robert McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian. Helen Marden spent the pandemic year painting and with family, her life slowed down but not in every way a bad way. “I felt lucky,” she says, “but extremely sad.” Despite her privilege, it’s not as though she wasn’t in the viral crosshairs: She’s almost 80, and her husband of over 50 years, Brice Marden , has been stalked by cancer. A number of her friends died of COVID, including one of her closest, the architect Edward Tuttle , whom she remembers meeting on the Greek island of Hydra back in the 1970s as if it were yesterday. “He was like 27, and I knew I was going to love him” — Helen is confident in her first impressions, as she seems at first to be in most things. “He had an Enter the Dragon T-shirt on and, I think, pearls,” she says. We’re sitting together, masked up and vaxxed up, at Gagosian’s first-floor gallery on Madison (the floors polished black, her hair Warhol white), surrounded by the lacquered tropicality of her paintings, eddies of plume-y pink, yellow, blue, and gleaming white, many shining with seashells, for an exhibition she has called “ Bitter Light a Year. ” Helen Marden and Brice Marden. Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images There is a hard-candy determination in the work and, one suspects, in her. Helen is a fierce and imperious globe-trotting grande dame who has known several generations of pretty much all the accomplished and interesting people worth knowing. They flock to the Mardens’ many homes: the eclectic Greenwich Village townhouse, the place on Nevis in the Caribbean, the one in Marrakech, the mini family compound upstate in Tivoli, the place they’ve had for decades on Hydra. Actually, the two, since they gave the one at the top of the hill (at some point, it was just too many stairs) to their daughters: Melia , the chef, known for the Smile , and Mirabelle, who co-owned for a time the gallery Rivington Arms, where both … [Read more...] about Helen Marden’s Bitter, Lucky Light