For safety reasons F1 cars can no longer do official timed runs so instead perform stunning demonstrations!
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
The first public race meeting took place in 1802 and, through the nineteenth century, ‘Glorious Goodwood,’ as the press named it, became a highlight of the summer season
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
"En la rose je fleurie" or "Like the rose, I flourish" is part of the Richmond coat of Arms and motto
Just beyond Goodwood House along the Hillclimb, the 2nd Dukes banqueting house was also known as "one of the finest rooms in England" (George Vertue 1747).
A huge variety of glassware is available for each wine, all labelled by grape type to give the best flavour profile.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
For the last two years, 5,800 bales have been recylced into the biomass energy centre to be used for energy generation
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
For the last two years, 5,800 bales have been recylced into the biomass energy centre to be used for energy generation
Nick Heidfelds 1999 (41.6s) hillclimb record was beaten after Max Chilton in his McMurtry Spéirling fan car tore it to shreds at 39.08s in 2022!
The bricks lining the Festival of Speed startline are 100 years old and a gift from the Indianapolis Speedway "Brickyard" in 2011 to mark their centenary event!
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
One Summer, King Edward VII turned his back on the traditional morning suit, and donned a linen suit and Panama hat. Thus the Glorious Goodwood trend was born.
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
A temple-folly guarded by two sphinxes, the beautiful shell house was built in 1748 with collected shells and the floor made from horse teeth.
Ensure you take a little time out together to pause and take in the celebration of all the hard work you put in will be a treasured memory.
Ensure you take a little time out together to pause and take in the celebration of all the hard work you put in will be a treasured memory.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
"En la rose je fleurie" or "Like the rose, I flourish" is part of the Richmond coat of Arms and motto
"En la rose je fleurie" or "Like the rose, I flourish" is part of the Richmond coat of Arms and motto
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
Tibor Reich’s colourful fabric designs graced palaces, stately homes and the original Concorde cabin. Emma O’Kelly meets his grandson Sam, who is reviving the midcentury maestro’s textiles brand, Tibor.
Words by Emma O'Kelly
Goodwood Magazine
“When I told people I was setting up a woven textiles brand in the UK, they thought I was bonkers,” says Sam Reich. “There are so few weavers and you need huge capital to develop the yarns.” Reich did, however, have something of a head-start: by his early twenties he had founded and sold a start-up, and his grandfather was midcentury textile maestro Tibor Reich.
Wearing a sweatshirt and jeans, 26-year-old Reich junior cuts a considerably less flamboyant figure than his grandfather, a Hungarian Jewish émigré who loved bespoke suits and large cigars. Tibor Reich fled art school in Vienna in 1937 and enrolled at Leeds University to study textile technology. The son of a Budapest textile manufacturer, he had grown up surrounded by swatches, and in 1946, opened his first mill in Stratford-upon-Avon. His colour-soaked designs – referencing the folklore of his native Hungary, the trees and stone walls of his adopted Britain, and the avant-garde brushstrokes of the Bauhaus – brought a fresh vibrancy to post-war interiors, and before long he was creating couture weaves for fashion houses such as Hardy Amies and Molyneux and furnishing fabrics for palaces and stately homes. In 1947, the Queen turned to Tibor, as his company was – and is – named, for a woollen fabric for her curtains.
When I told people I was setting up a woven textiles brand in the UK, they thought I was bonkers.
“My grandfather was fascinated with architecture – he really appreciated space,” says Reich. “I think to create a successful textile you have to imagine the whole space,” he adds, turning to photos of the interiors of Concorde in the 2016 monograph, Tibor Reich: Art of Colour & Texture . Reich created the airliner’s original interior scheme in 1966, with a purple carpet fading to pink at the rear and seats in either pink, purple, green or orange. He also loved cars, and the 20,000 model cars he and his sons collected are now at Coventry Transport Museum. He may not dress like his grandfather, but Sam Reich shares the same obsession with craftsmanship, tradition and quality. All Tibor fabrics are still made in the UK, in what is a painstaking manufacturing process. Yarns imported from South America and Australia to the Yorkshire mill are re-spun to create bespoke shapes and textures before going to Scotland to be dyed then brought back to Yorkshire to be twisted and finished. They then wind up in the Tibor storage in Keighley.
Tibor loved Italian design, its flair and boldness and fabulous use of colour
Reich died in 1996, aged 80. His last collection was produced in 1977, and in the decades that followed, his natural fibres and colourful palette were eclipsed by synthetic fibres and muted shades. Despite warnings from his father not to open the Pandora’s box that had been the family business, when he unearthed thousands of sample books gathering dust in a storage space in Leamington Spa, Sam felt compelled to act. “I would look at fabulous swatches of tweeds from the 1930s, and the boucléd and looped fabrics that my grandfather brought from fashion to furnishing fabrics, and I saw so many starting points.”
His plans include collaborating with big-name designers to rework couture designs into furnishing fabrics and curtains, and to release one new collection a year. With 30,000 archived designs at his fingertips, Reich is developing new textured weaves with soft wools from the Falklands, South America and Australia in which to use them. Each year he launches a new tapestry, and last year’s, California , was used by Italian designer Achille Salvagni to reupholster a vintage Gio Ponti sofa.
It may be small, but Tibor has as a cult following. Interior designers Peter Marino and Sella Concept are also fans, along with pioneering Milan gallerist Nina Yashar, who upholstered the walls of her gallery Nilufar in Tibor’s bestselling Cymbeline. And at White City House, the latest Soho House in the former BBC Television Centre, barstools are upholstered in Tibor’s Raw Coral.
“Tibor loved Italian design, its flair and boldness and fabulous use of colour,” says Reich. In 1956, his grandfather’s screen-printed cotton prints Gondola , Sunburst and Palermo formed part of a “Mediterranean Look” exhibition at Peter Jones department store. It was one of many joyful, cosmopolitan shows he held, his mission being to bring some life to the “fusty, brown, dark and boring” British palette. He was also a keen ceramicist, photographer, painter and furniture designer, who sat at the top table of British modernism, alongside Robin and Lucienne Day, Ernest Race and Lucian Ercolani. Step by step, Sam Reich is leading him back there. tibor.co.uk
This article is taken from the Winter 18-19 edition of the Goodwood Magazine.
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