2024 OSTARA CELEBRATION – Bard x Boath House

VOGUE.com Fire Ceremonies and Folk Tales: Inside a Spring Equinox Party in the Scottish Highlands

Words by Sarah Wood Gonzalez – Photography by Alexander Baxter

March 19, 2024

https://www.vogue.com/article/spring-equinox-party-bard-boath-house

Hand-cut glass vessels by Juli Bolaños-Durman lined the tables.jpg

The mood was boisterous and convivial, raucous and intimate.jpg.webp

Hand-cut glassware by Edinburgh-based glass artist Juli Bolaños-Durman added sparkle to proceedings.jpg.webp

Placements by Jonny Gent introduced colour and whimsy to the table.jpg.webp

Guests cast papers into the bonfire of woes to be left behind in Winter, and wishes to be invited in with Spring..jpg.webp

A hare appeared fleetingly by the bonfire.jpg.webp

Juli Bolaños-Durman rustled up a Oaxacan cape for the occasion.jpg.webp

*Boath House, built in 1827 by Archibald Simpson for Captain James Dunbar, one of Scotland's finest Greek Revival villas, and the perfect home for a pagan house party.jpg.webp

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