Fair for Home and Garden Enthusiasts

For anyone passionate about interiors and gardens, the The Daily Telegraph / House & Garden Fair is an excellent opportunity to see the very latest classic and contemporary designs from many of the country's most prominent designers. With numerous interactive seminars and talks, you can gather a whole host of expert tips and advice for your home and garden.

From bathrooms to bedrooms, gourmet food to garden furniture, there is plenty to inspire you. Highlights of the Fair include:

Farrow & Ball has enlisted international colour consultant, Joa Studholme, to host ‘Colour in the Home’. The talk combines inspirational ideas with helpful tips, providing you with the confidence to make informed colour choices and take the worry out of that all important, often overwhelming decision of home decoration. Farrow & Ball will also be showing its new wallpaper collection, ‘The Ranelagh Papers’, which we featured last month in Period Home and Garden.

Bespoke furniture designer-maker Christian O’Reilly will be showcasing his latest designs in furniture and interiors accessories. The majority of his commissions are made from English hardwoods such as Cherry, Elm or Ripple Ash, which he favours in particular for their exquisite textures and colours. With chairs, coffee tables, writing boxes and a manuscript cabinet amongst his designs,Christian applies his automotive design experience to produce furniture that has clean, classic lines.

Like a floral mobile in the sky, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan has imagined and created a three-dimensional garden comprised of giant floating shapes. These spheres and discs hang from the ceiling of the Grand Hall creating clouds of plants for visitors to mingle between, below and beyond.

Meanwhile, inspired by the dramatic movement, rich colours and the strong contrasts of Baroque architecture, Richard Miers has used symmetry and a central axis as the main basis for his stunning garden design, with a wide avenue of scented shrubs, twin paths and a central border.

The John Cullen Light House has been designed to show how lighting can dramatically transform a space, and to provide specific, practical ideas and inspiration for effectively lighting a home in the 21st century.

The KLC School of Design, a world-renowned institute for interior and garden design training, presents interactive workshops at the Fair. Covering a variety of subjects, including training sessions on colour and style or the use of schemes and concepts, the various workshops are sure to suit all interests.

The Daily Telegraph / House & Garden Fair, Olympia, Wednesday 27th - Saturday 30th June 2007. for more information visit www.houseandgardenfair.co.uk