BEN PENTREATH - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER & DECORATOR
For more the 20 years, Ben Pentreath has been a champion of exceptional English design, creating homes, interiors, and town developments that are at once traditional and distinctly modern, timeless, and boldly contemporary. An award-winning classical architectural designer & decorator whose impressive client list includes King Charles, Penthreath and his eponymous studio Ben Pentreath Ltd., have established a powerful reputation for commercial projects with an abiding sense of history and place, interiors that sing with color and texture, and residences that replace fussy excess with a light, effortless sense of comfort and harmony.
An English Vision, Pentreath’s new book, showcases two decades’ worth of projects and explores his distinctive approach to architecture, design and decoration. The book opens with a forward by John, Earl of Moray, and an introduction from Pentreath, where he outlines his unique design philosophy, which prioritizes, above all, a strong sense of happiness, history, character, place, color, imperfection, a sense of the endeavor as a whole, and a sense of a project’s place in time.
Succeeding chapters walk readers through a stunning variety of projects, across 352 pages of lush, full-color photographs taken by Pentreath himself. IN THE CITY looks at Pentreath’s urban projects, including the restoration of a house on Regent’s Park, London, with a new roof garden, glowing jewel-tone interiors, and cornices and joinery detailed with an early 19th-century quality. TOWNS & TOWNHOUSES explore the firm’s town development work, most notably the master planning of Poundbury, King Charles’ New Urbanist development, which comprises more than 1,500 buildings and is a triumph of postwar suburban expansion. A chapter on THE COUNTRY HOUSE showcases rural retreats and historic country homes, among them a dreamlike Jacobean Castle revival in Cornwall, which had to be completely rebuilt and redecorated, with careful attention to historic detail, after a fire ripped through the building in the 1980s. Finally, a chapter on VILLAGE AND FARM highlights projects that include a romantic West Cornwall seaside escape; a small Georgian farm nestled amid the unspoiled beauty of the eastern Cotswolds; and Pentreath’s own beloved home in West Dorset, a revitalized former parsonage that embodies the exquisite, personal simplicity for which Pentreath is renowned.
BOOK SIGNING: DOORS OPEN @ 12:45 to 1:30 p.m.
SESSION I: JEFFRY DUNGAN @ 1:30 p.m.
SESSION II: BEN PENTREATH @ 3:00 p.m.
BOOK SIGNING: FINISH @ 4:00 to 4:30 p.m.
REGISTRATION: EVENTBRITE (use either link for the same event)
PRIVATE DINNER @ 6:30 p.m. exclusively in honor of Jeffrey Dungan & Ben Pentreath, ICAA Northwest Benefactor Level Sponsors receive invitation to attend a private dinner following the Rainier Club Lecture Series. Seating is limited. For Benefactor Level sponsorship & ticket inquiries, contact Duncan McRoberts: duncan@mcroberts-associates.com
