Surrey Homes | SH79 | August 2021 | Adding value to your property supplement inside

This page: On the lower floor, before the bathroom, the study is
another perfect showcase of John Alfredo’s work in an impressive
sideboard and a cupboard door made of a wood frame with
hessian behind. Beatrice sourced two striking Italian vintage chairs
by the desk and a low red 1950s chair by Osvaldo Borsani. The
painting on the chimney breast is by late Hastings-based French
painter Roland Jarvis, who lived on Tackleway in the Old Town
shop in Hastings, before that she had a stall at London’s
Spitalfields Market. “I wanted to have a shop so I would
be able to sell quality pieces for the price they deserve.”
But Beatrice’s shop is a notch higher on the antiques
food chain than the more rackety junk shops Hastings
Old Town is famous for, where you have to hunt hard for
treasure. Everything in Ode has been carefully selected
and is beautifully displayed too. “I am in the middle
of the market,” says Beatrice. “I sell pieces by known
names, vintage and current – including John Alfredo.”
She is now also turning those sourcing skills
into specific interior design projects, furnishing
and decorating spaces for clients.
The upper hall shows the breadth of her resources. A
wonderful picture on the wall is the Queen’s head, as on
a stamp, rendered in coloured buttons by well-known
Margate-based artist Ann Carrington – who is a friend.
The painting hangs on the wall next to the wooden
French doors out to the garden, which have similar
oblong panes to the currently highly-fashionable black
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