At Close Range: Susan Zelouf And Michael Bell
By The Gloss
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH RANGE ROVER
Behind the scenes with THE GLOSS Contributing Editor Susan Zelouf and her husband Michael Bell, owners of furniture-making business Zelouf & Bell …
Your favourite virtue Zelouf: Curiosity; I’m here on earth on a need to know basis. Bell: Practicality; a thing has got to work.
Your favourite qualities in a man Z: Smarts. Michael is the smartest man in any room. B: Intelligence. I may be dyslexic, but overcoming it made me smarter.
Your favourite qualities in a woman Z: Playfulness; girls just wanna have fun(damental rights). B: Naughtiness; nuff said. ?
Your chief characteristic Z: Vanity; I’m the vainest person I know. I adore beautiful clothes, shoes, jewellery. But I don’t mind hard work, as long as I’m dressed for it. B: Resourcefulness; I love problemsolving. ?
What you appreciate the most in your friends Z: The ability to keep a secret. B: Strength, when I need a lift with something heavy.
Your main fault Z: I seem to have no Off switch. B: Stubbornness. ?
Your favourite occupations Z: Writing and designing. B: I’m doing it; designing and making furniture.
Zelouf & Bell Kimono with Peonies cabinet
Your idea of happiness Z: Waking up in a hotel, with high thread count and maid service every day. B: Filling the bird feeders and mowing the back field. ?
Your idea of misery: Z: A life without dogs. B: Holidaying with an agenda. ?
If not yourself, who would you be? Z: Queen of Feckin Everything.B: A Formula 1 driver; I’m an adrenaline junkie. ?
Your current state of mind Z: Worried for Democracy. B: Impatient for recovery from my full 3D ankle replacement surgery; bring it on. ?
Your favourite colour and flower Z: Any colour as long as it’s black. Hedgerow honeysuckle. B: Ditto. Poppy. ?
Most overrated virtue Z: Honesty; lie to me. B: Religiosity; keep your beliefs to yourself.
Zelouf & Bell Beverly Hills Bar Cart
Which talent would you most like to possess Z: It’s a toss-up between trapeze artist and to sing as well as Tony Bennett. B: To be able to play the piano.
Your favourite authors Z: Rob MacFarlane. B: Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements).
Your favourite poets Z: Mary Oliver. B: Ivor Cutler.
Your favourite heroes and heroines in fiction Z: The Tempest’s Prospero. Cabaret’s (I Am a Camera) Sally Bowles. B: Flipper. Lassie.
Your favourite artist Z: Bernini. B: Louise Bourgeois.
Your favourite musical artists and composers Z: Tony Bennett and Bill Evans. B: David Byrne.
The principal aspect of your personality Z: Inventiveness; I’m never at a loss for an idea. B: Confidence; there is only one me.
Your idea of good taste Z: Good taste eludes and bores me. B: Rings on every finger, layering pearls with silver chains (me).
The quality I look for in my surroundings Z: A housekeeper. Know anyone? B: Comfort and light.
The country where I should like to live Z: Italia. B: I quite like living in Ireland.
I look to the road ahead with … Z: An eye to the sky; I’m always on the lookout for the first swallows of B: A headlamp on; it gets dark very early four months of the year.
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