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Judy enters the monastic world of ÁBBATTE, where traditional Spanish artisanal techniques are used to create exquisite handwoven textiles.  Project founder Elena Goded Rimbaud talks about transforming the ruins of a 13th century monastery in Segovia into the ÁBBATTE workshop and reviving the region’s handmade textile traditions there. Then, speaking from ÁBBATTE’s Madrid store, Elena describes the pieces they make - alpaca wool throws, textured carpets and silk scarves - in colours rendered with botanic dyes from the magical ÁBBATTE garden. Working alongside her art director daughter, Elena says ÁBBATTE strives to create textiles with a contemporary aesthetic while being grounded in the techniques of the past.

Show Notes

https://www.abbatte.com

@abbatte_

// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Translation by Marcella Echevarria

Produced by Caroline Hughes for Feast Collective

// Sound Engineer: Jason Millhouse

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Photographer and magazine founder, Ruth Ribeaucourt, talks to Judy about her creative collaboration with cult French interiors and homewares brand, Antoinette Poisson.  

After photographing ‘A Year in the French Style’ for the brand’s founders, Vincent Farelly and Jean-Baptiste Martin, Ruth was invited to collaborate with them a second time on a range of wallpapers and fabrics, based on their shared love of historic French textiles and patterns.  

Ruth recounts how visiting flea markets and collecting antique textiles as a novice collector, first helped her to learn the language and assimilate the culture of her adopted home when she moved to Provence from her native Ireland, and talks about FAIRE, the magazine she founded, to take her readers inside the creative lives of artists, artisans and curators from France and around the world.

You can listen to Judy's previous conversation with Ruth in Episodes 14 and 15 of Unpaused. 

Show Notes: 

Ruth Ribeaucourt

Ruth Ribeaucourt Instagram

Faire Magazine

Antoinette Poisson

Antoinette Poisson is known for reviving traditional paper dominoes—beautiful, repeat-pattern domino prints. With a cheeky nod to French history, they were named after King Louis XV’s favourite mistress, better known as Madame de Pompadour.

'A Year in the French Style: Interiors and Entertaining with Antoinette Poisson’ by Vincent Farelly and Jean-Baptiste Martin

// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Caroline Hughes for Feast Collective

// Sound Engineer: Jason Millhouse

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For 8 years, Danielle Alvarez presided at Fred's on Oxford Street, Sydney, over a stylish open kitchen and hearth, roasting pedigreed lamb legs and chickens, in full view of the fortunate few to have secured a booking. And, if Oxford Street was a long way from the Cuban immigrant community in which Danielle grew up in Miami, Florida, the imprint of that exotic childhood, and her grounding in the pioneering farm-to-table ethos of the US west coast restaurant culture of the 2000s, all found their mark. She has stopped to catch her breath, putting the finishing touches to the manuscript of a new cookbook, her second. To hear Danielle as she works through what began as a pause, but seems to be burgeoning into a new chapter, listen now.

Show Notes:

• The French Laundry
• Boulettes Larder
• Chez Panisse
• Fred's
• Danielle's Instagram 
• Danielle's cookbook, 'Always Add Lemon'
• Danielle's website

// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineers: Lana Kristensen and Jason Millhouse

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She writes to paint… or perhaps she paints to write. Either way, Naomi Bulger is a woman who has both sides of her brain hot-wired. And to think it all began with making rural commodities sound sexy. Listen now on Unpaused. 

Show Notes:

• Naomi's illustrations and hand written letters
• Tangle and Fern (Naomi's branding services)
• Pep Talks Podcast
• Naomi's Instagram
• Further Reading: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineers: Lana Kristensen and Jason Millhouse  

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Eleanor Roosevelt conducted a parallel life beyond the view of most of the American people, despite occupying the most prominent role for a woman in the country at that time. She maintained two different apartments in Washington Square in New York before and after the White House years and thereby opened the way to a host of new friends and renewed purpose. ER’s reinvention was a remarkable one, sparked, on one reading, by physically removing herself from the constraints of husband and family and surrounding herself with a coterie of women who rejoiced in the intellectual, the cultural and the political. In doing so, she herself was transformed.

Show Notes:

• Eleanor in the Village by Jan Jarboe Russell
• Allenswood Boarding Academy
• Esther Lape
• Elizabeth Reed
• Doris Kearns Goodwin's book "No Ordinary Time"
• Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own"
• Listen to other ER Episodes on Unpaused

// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineers: Lana Kristensen and Jason Millhouse  // Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net

What happens when one of the most famous women in the world goes back to work? She proves she has something to give by giving her all and leaving a legacy that no one can argue with. ⁠Jackie’s last 20 years were a study in how fulfilling a working life can be. She didn’t need to do it, she didn’t have to do it; she wanted to do it. ⁠And with two marriages behind her and two children at school, no one was going to hold her back. At 45, she reclaimed her career and got down to work. ⁠

Show Notes:

• Reading Jackie by William Kuhn
• The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski
• Prix de Paris - Vogue Writing Prize
• Letitia Baldrige (First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s Social Secretary)
• Diana Vreeland 
• The Glory of Russian Costume (Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• In The Russian Style (accompanying book, edited by Jacqueline Onassis)
• Maria by Callas (Netflix documentary)

Jackie's favourite novels:

• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Out of Africa by Karen Blixen  
• Colette 

// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineers: Lana Kristensen and Jason Millhouse  // Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net

Sustainable luxury travel expert, Juliet Kinsman, is your go-to person if the travel hotspots of the world that give back are on your wish list. She’s smart, she’s well -informed and she’s on Unpaused.

Show Notes:

• Juliet's website
• Conde Naste Traveller
• Juliet's Book Rec 1: Open Up Why Talking About Money Will Change Your Life by Alex Holder
• Juliet's Book Rec 2: Loop Tail by Bruce Poon Tip (really explains stakeholder capitalism)
• Juliet's Book Rec 3: Unchartered - How to Map the Future Together by Margaret Heffernan
• Intrepid Travel (Aussie company)
• #fairtradejournalism

// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineers: Lana Kristensen and Jason Millhouse  // Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net

India Hicks has been called the quintessential Brit “It” Girl-turned-entrepreneur but it's her latest chapter as a committed philanthropist that intrigues. Eloquent, provocative and never dull, here's India Hicks re-imagined on Unpaused.⁠ 

Show Notes: 

• India's website
• Lord Louis Mountbatten, India's grandfather
• David Hicks, India's father
• David's Egyptian Mausoleum Home on Windermere Island
• Global Empowerment Mission
• India's Instagram, including her Ukraine visits
• Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, India's grandmother
• Books by India
• India's podcast with her mother, Lady Pamela
• India Hicks in Conversation with Tina Brown
• See India in Australia, December 2022

// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineers: Lana Kristensen and Jason Millhouse  // Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net

Today, I am bringing you a story that is unfolding on a small Greek island - SYROS, where author and economist Oana Aristide has renovated a run-down, neo-classical villa into a jewel box of a hotel of just 9 suites, called Hotel Aristide.

Oana’s personal story is a dramatic one. She grew up in Soviet-occupied Romania in her grandmother’s care, when her parents and sister defected - without her - to Sweden. She trained formally as an economist, a role which took her into the halls of presidential power in Bucharest, before a career in economic advisory in London and Europe. On any reckoning, in economics Oana had built the foundation of a solid professional career.

But she was busy after hours as well, writing and editing a first novel, Under the Blue, which, with some prescience, describes an epic road journey during a devastating global pandemic, brought on by the unanticipated effects of climate change. This is a classic Unpaused episode; enjoy. 

// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineers: Lana Kristensen and Jason Millhouse // Research Assistant: Claudia Cameron // Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net

Becoming a mother heralds a dramatic change in the lives of Australian women. New mothers go from spending a weekly average of two hours caring for others to a staggering 51 hours. And when women become mothers, they also increase the time they spend on housework, like cooking, cleaning and washing, leaping from a weekly average of 16 hours to 25 hours in not much more than the blink of an eye. Statistics like these bring the whole issue of gender equality into a new realm. 

Married with three daughters, Nicolette Rubinsztein (author of 'Not Guilty') has lived this conflict and come out the other end with a well-developed plan for how to smooth the way to a happier and fairer household for the working mother. Having led strategy for Colonial First State, the wealth management arm of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for 12 years, during the first 2 years of which she also had her first baby, Nicolette knows more than most about thinking her way out of a problem. Despite reducing her hours to become part time, she managed to retain her rank and position as one of Colonial's general managers and go on to have two more children as well. How did she do it? 

// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineers: Lana Kristensen and Jason Millhouse // Research Assistant: Claudia Cameron // Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net