{"id":5378,"date":"2014-11-27T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T15:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2017-01-04T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T11:11:03","slug":"secrets-of-the-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/secrets-of-the-castle","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of the Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After watching <em>Secrets of the Castle with Ruth, Peter and Tom\u00a0<\/em>on Tuesday night, I found myself in awe of the archaeological project that has been undertaken at\u00a0Gu\u00e9delon in Yonne, Burgandy.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fifty people are currently working on the development of a medieval castle which aims to educate and provide sustainable jobs in specialist areas, such as woodcutters, blacksmiths, ropemakers and stonemasons, all using methods that would have originally been used in 13th century France.<\/p>\n<p>Moments afterwards, looking down at the new copy of <em>Elle Decoration Country<\/em>, I coincidentally came across this beautiful spread,\u00a0<em>Medieval Modern,<\/em>\u00a0featuring a 12th century castle near Antwerp. Designer Axel Vervoordt has transformed this historic beauty into a haven to house his extensive collection of antiques and contemporary artwork. Each of the fifty rooms throughout the castle are as breathtaking as the last.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"sharer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5383\" src=\"\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Final_2-600x595.jpg\" alt=\"deVOL blog - Elle Decoration Country - by Kitty Burows\" width=\"540\" height=\"536\" \/><ul id=\"socialshare\"><!--<li class=\"fb\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?app_id=688330137993706&display=popup&href=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/secrets-of-the-castle?img=\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Final_2-600x595.jpg\"><\/a><\/li><li class=\"tw\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/secrets-of-the-castle&text=Secrets of the Castle\"><\/a><li>--><li class=\"pt\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button?&url=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/secrets-of-the-castle&media=\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Final_2-600x595.jpg\"><\/a><li><\/ul><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"sharer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5384\" src=\"\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/FINAL_1-600x602.jpg\" alt=\"deVOL blog - Elle Decoration - by Kitty Burrows\" width=\"540\" height=\"542\" \/><ul id=\"socialshare\"><!--<li class=\"fb\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?app_id=688330137993706&display=popup&href=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/secrets-of-the-castle?img=\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/FINAL_1-600x602.jpg\"><\/a><\/li><li class=\"tw\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/secrets-of-the-castle&text=Secrets of the Castle\"><\/a><li>--><li class=\"pt\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button?&url=https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/secrets-of-the-castle&media=\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/FINAL_1-600x602.jpg\"><\/a><li><\/ul><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Both castles represent a wonderful achievement by skilled craftsmen &#8211; my only wish now is to visit them both one day ..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>See the full spread in Volume 5 of Elle Decoration Country, available now at deVOL Kitchens, Cotes Mill.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>For more information on the\u00a0Gu\u00e9delon Project, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guedelon.fr\/en\">http:\/\/www.guedelon.fr\/en<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching Secrets of the Castle with Ruth, Peter and Tom\u00a0on Tuesday night, I found myself in awe of the archaeological project that has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32,255,256,257],"class_list":["post-5378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cotes-mill","tag-cotes-mill","tag-designer-axel-vervoordt","tag-elle-decoration-country","tag-medieval-modern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15238,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions\/15238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}