Dick and Angel have their entire life's planning, inventions and ideas jotted down in a variety of notebooks and until now they had struggled to find the perfect one! They simply wanted to create a notebook that uses good quality paper, lovely materials and true personalisation. The original, Walled Garden inspired Potagerie notebook is beautifully debossed onto the leatherette material to ensure all of the detail of the original artwork is reproduced in a subtle and elegant way.

On the fourth floor of The Chateau, a room patiently awaited some TLC. The former servant’s quarters look out over Dick & Angel’s walled garden, the “Potagerie”.

The room waited nearly four years to be given the attention it deserved, and in that time, the Potagerie had begun its transformation – and the view got better and better and better. Dick duly named the room “The Potagerie Suite”, and from that moment it too started to come to life...

“The kitchen garden is Dick’s passion, though a little outside my comfort zone. That said, there is such strong shape and form to be found there that I couldn’t resist combining my love for Art Deco shapes with items from the garden tended so lovingly by my husband. The appearance of carrots, courgettes, artichokes, sweet pea and, of course, bees really scream, “Garden!” To complete the cottage garden feel I even took inspiration from the flowers on the century-old wallpaper that was originally in the room.”

For Angel, design needs to tell a story. This one is about love.

Our notebooks are A5 in size, printed on a luxurious 150gsm smooth cream paper the 148 pages (74 leaves) are then thread sewn and case bound in the cover of your choice. Each one is then hand finished with a place ribbon, head and tail bands.