If your cooking-space seems a little too cramped for such extravagant new creations Andrew Macintosh and Laurence Llewelyn Bowen presenters of the BBC’s controversial

If your cooking-space seems a little too cramped for such extravagant new creations, Andrew Macintosh and Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, presenters of the BBC’s controversial Changing Rooms programme and old hands at homes exhibitions, will be on hand to show off the latest trends.Outside in the flowerpots and among the rooftop plots is the plantsman and landscape designer Stephen Woodhams, who will be promoting his new book Flower Power and advising visitors on urban garden design.If you still are not tempted, the exhibition boasts a full-time DJ and the opportunity for visitors to meet designers and buy one-off pieces. The exhibition includes cookery demonstrations and wine-tasting, and the chef Antony Worrall Thompson will be serving tapas and sangria in a Mediterranean bistro. We looked at the way in which the Ideal Home show was developing and decided to move the new show in a more contemporary and upmarket direction Urban home-owners are spoiled, and want something different. Ligne Roset, the French supplier of upholstery and furniture, is displaying chairs, wardrobes and chair-beds, and there will also be Hulsta beds from Germany, furniture from Spain and candles from Denmark among the exhibits.For the home exhibition novice, The Capital Home Show 98 is eager to set itself apart from the Ideal Home show.As Gower says, “Ideal Home visitors and exhibitors had asked for a homes show in London in the autumn.

The Capital Home Show will go a long way to satisfying their needs.”One of the most distinctive features about the Capital Home Show 98 is the amount of expertise on hand to advise on all aspects of home life. These are designers chosen with London home-owners in mind – those who appreciate the tribulations of living in a cramped metropolis, and the exhibition’s accessories and fittings, lectures and demonstrations are all intended to help you turn a poky box room into a wide open living-space.And for those visitors who are lucky enough to be kings and queens of infinite space, there is a good choice of European sofas, beds and furniture to browse through. James Gower, the manager of the DMG Exhibition Group, explained the success of last year’s show: “Companies selling high-quality contemporary wares with an appeal to a youngish discerning audience did extremely well. Again the attraction seemed to be the different and even the bizarre. Our audience came to see something unusual, and not `high street’.”
The Capital Home Show hosts 300 exhibitors from all over the world.

More interestingly, it appears to be an exhibition that is determined to inspire you to greater things in home decoration, rather than just making you wish you lived somewhere else. The exhibition at the Grand Hall, Olympia, now in its second year, offers a chance to glean advice on everything from getting the desired paint effect to cooking perfect apple strudel. MUCH HAS been made recently of the importance of the correct placement of a vase or chair when talking interior design. The Capital Home Show 98 promises to be rather more down-to-earth. I’d also buy a tiny cottage by a loch.I’m an erratic lottery player anyway, but I would carry on; my all-time favourite (number is seven, followed by my birthday, 27, and, for some reason, 44.Petroc Trelawny is presenter of `On Air’, BBC Radio 3’s breakfast show. I’d hire Gennadiy Rozhdestvensky to conduct a revival of one of my favourite Russian pieces, Shostakovich’s Cheremushki, a great social satire, and I’d like to stage a production of Lennox Berkeley’s opera Nelson to mark the 10th anniversary of the composer’s death next year.

It would be good to get theatre and opera to remote places – such as Cornwall, where I come from.I’d also like to run a night-club – quite small, with lots of tables and easy chairs, beautiful bar staff and great food. I always need to be working, so the idea of a life of leisure doesn’t appeal.Holidays would be with friends. I’m desperate to go to India and Cuba; a month at the beautiful Boathouse hotel on Phuket in Thailand would be wonderful.I live in Camden which I adore, so would stay there – although a house in my street would be nice. There would be a stage where we’d get DJs and hip bands making music with classical players; there would be poetry and music as well, and it would be soon become achingly cool.I love broadcasting, and would like to carry on doing On Air. I’ve always liked the idea of something nice in tweed, as well. Then I’d start organising my celebratory party with the Divine Comedy, Ute Lemper and the Kronos Quartet to entertain. It would be nice to get some lovely presents for friends: one who needs a car would get a sporty Mercedes; I’d buy a painting by Henry Scott Tuke for another who is a great collector.
Long-term what I would like to do is become a grand patron of the arts, putting on music and theatre and commissioning new works.

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