Neptune stories - an anthology of articles

Features

She sells sea shells

For children, collecting shells from the beach is a rite of passage. For some, that interest develops into a career as a shell artist, as design writer Aimee Farrell reveals. The marvel and mystery...

Interiors

A summer glow

Take a tour around your home and the one thing you’ll find in every room is lighting. Be it the kitchen, the bedroom, a study or your living room, whatever the function of the space, at some point ...

Interiors

Orkney White

Inspired by the soft white sands of the Orkney Islands’ beaches, our new Orkney White shade has a rich, textural history, as colour expert and author Kassia St Clair discovers. History lies closer ...

Interiors

Woven in time

Discover the rich domestic history and sustainable properties of natural rattan, as featured in our new Athena lighting collection.

Interiors

The call of the scallop

From Renaissance artists to today’s leading interior designers, why has the scallop motif enticed creatives for so many centuries?

Interiors

Our coastal colour palette

View Orkney White, our seasonal shade, against this soothing, watery palette of soft blues and greens with hints of earthy brown and ochre.

design services

Let’s design: kitchen edition

Designing a new kitchen can be daunting and overwhelming, but it can also be a great deal of fun. And, at Neptune, we’re always striving to make sure that, for everyone who chooses to design their ...

One kitchen, three homes

The best kitchen designs evolve to reflect individual needs, from the smaller, starter kitchen to the considerably larger, kitchen-as-a-living-room space. Our Suffolk kitchen is an example of a sty...

recipes

Apple, blackberry and cinnamon puff pastry tarts

A slightly different take on the classic apple pie. One that’s ready to be wrapped up and taken with you on an afternoon walk, whether you’re venturing out on a proper ramble or simply dashing to t...

Kitchen

Making it personal

Designing a kitchen that works for your particular space means you might want to look beyond the regular options for extra adjustments or individual details

recipes

Smashed butternut, roasted garlic & pomegranate croutes

For those evenings when you just have a few friends popping by, when you need something bite-size to hand round at a get-together, or you’re looking for a recipe to serve as the prelude to the mai...

That winter glow

With a little planning, lighting can become a secret weapon for boosting winter warmth around your home, according to interiors journalist Amy Bradford. ‘Light is the first essential. Light stimula...

recipes

Orange and ginger madeleines

It’s always good to have a little something on hand for when friends or family unexpectedly stop by – which seems to happen all the more in the bonhomie of the festive season. And even better when...

recipes

Donal Skehan’s hosting menu

Orecchiette with Kale and Spicy Pangrattato Sometimes known as ‘poor man’s parmesan’, and sprinkled on many pasta dishes, pangrattato is Italian for fried breadcrumbs. In this recipe, the pangratt...

All in the mix

These days, the best dressed dining tables don't match. A beautifully laid table is a considered art. One that goes far beyond the simple placing of perfectly matched plates, bowls, and serveware...

Pistachio panettone cake

Food writer Skye McAlpine shares a recipe for Christmas Eve from her book, ‘A Table for Friends: The Art of Cooking for Two or Twenty’. The idea to use pistachio butter here, between each layer o...

Where style meets structure

A room’s plaster mouldings might be seen as decorative details, but they are often aesthetic necessities, says interiors editor Jessica Doyle. In the drawing room of a beautiful castle in the Sco...

recipes

Deliciously Ella’s Autumn Menu

Created and fine-tuned in her Henley studio kitchen, Ella Mill’s plant-based menu includes a slow roasted aubergine dish, a jewelled wild rice salad, and a plum, blackberry & maple crumble. All...

Evolving the country kitchen

This Chichester kitchen takes the roots of historical country house kitchens and reimagines them for contemporary living, including an innovative pantry wall. The story of the country kitchen is ...

Features

A meaningful plan

How best to develop and protect Britain’s natural wooded habitat for the next generation? As responsible timber furniture makers, Neptune is partnering with a forward-thinking woodland creation ch...

Interiors

Decorating with brave colour

There are lots of reasons to introduce bold new colours into your home. If you’ve found yourself drawn to richer, braver colour palettes in recent times, there may be more to it than a simple desir...

Henley kitchen

In the kitchen with Ella Mills

I started Deliciously Ella at my kitchen table back in 2012 after a bout of ill health. Originally intended to be a personal project, my blog was a way to teach myself to cook healthy and delicious...

Furniture

Wood matters

Rejecting MDF and chipboard in favour of solid timbers, the founders of Neptune embarked on a mission to find the best materials for the job, as co-founder John Sims-Hilditch explains to editor Suz...

Features

Ways with Potter's Pink

Our seasonal colour, Potter’s Pink, is an earthy neutral inspired by unfired clay. We explore how to style this versatile shade with paint, textiles and furniture.

Furniture

Cut from the same cloth

To mark the relationship between Neptune and Fermoie, we get to know the British brand behind such distinctive and beautiful fabric.

Interiors

On Potter’s Pink

Our new seasonal shade takes its name from the delicate freshness of un-fired pottery clay. With the subtle look of raw plaster on walls, it has a sense of earthy texture and historic precedence. P...

recipes

Four recipes for a light summer’s supper

In the easy-to-follow recipes below – created by Sam Wylde, our go-to local chef of Sam’s Kitchen Deli in Frome – you’ll find four dishes that work beautifully together for lunch or a light supper.

recipes

A make-ahead berry pavlova

When you’re playing host for a special occasion, it’s always a good idea to have a few recipes under your belt that you can make in advance so you’re not spending all your time in the kitchen the n...

Features

The making of Harris Tweed

Behind the complex textures and earthy colours of Neptune’s Harris Tweed fabrics lies a time-honoured cottage industry that keeps the Hebrides thriving. As journalist Amy Bradford discovers, this i...

Features

Preserving the art of dining

As our social lives and gatherings are gradually re-established, food writer and author Debora Robertson muses on how relaxed hosting is the most convivial.

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