World of Interiors
World of Interiors
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Content
World of Interiors
Vol.36,No 1,January 2016
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 8
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best products sold by museums and galleries 11
Rock solid Good for your posture, good for your soul -these chairs, um, rock! cries Miranda Sinclair 14
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 21
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 24
The new wavy Watered fabrics, or moires, bring iridescence to your interior. Max Egger says they're swell 26
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 32
Address book Suppliers in this issue 34
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 106
Exhibition diary The nice KKK, Anne Hardy's madding crowd, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 108
Journal of an architectural colourist As John Hinton explains, period authenticity often calls for a degree of artifice 128
Interiors
Force of destiny All but wiped out in the Spanish C jvil War, the land-owning Morales family now have an apt monument - a theatrical palacio near Seville. Celia Lyttelton meets the scion responsible 36
The house that yu built The rough-hewn pottery created by Yu Kobayashi in her live/work space in Japan feels akin to the furniture she's made from beach debris. Text: Timothy Brittain-Catlin 48
Stilts life Girondais shrimps and Arcachon oysters are just some of the delicacies served up in this riverside camlet. Laure Verniere meets the art historian owner enjoying his shellfish isolation 64
Plenty more fisher Will Fisher of Jamb did up a house in London after selling off all his stock. 'There's nothing worse than giving an antique dealer a load of bloody money,' he tells Charlotte Edwards 70
Peak of the slump Oregon's mountain-perching Timberline Lodge is a testament to FDR's New Deal -and the region's craft skills. Tim Beddow celebrates a pioneer of progressive policy 80
Twice upon a time The most romantic house in England'? That's what the Gibsons felt when they saw this Gofhick folly at Stourhead in Wol 30 years ago. Tim Beddow traces a chequered love story 96
Art & antiques
Rich and strange Romilly Saumarez Smith turns mudlarks' finds - Tudor pins, pilgrims' mirror cases and so on- into jewellery freighted with the past. Ruth Guilding eyes her 'dark goblin-hoard' 58
Men, monsters and merriment A star of the V&A's new Europe galleries, this 4m-long painting of the opulent Ommegang pageant is a vivid slice of 17th-century Brussels well worth processing past, says Susan Owens 90
Vol.36,No 2,February 2016
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 20
Mineralism : For metallic fabrics you need to dig deep -Miranda Sinclair is a mine of information 34
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 45
Serious Pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 50
Winning Streaks
Want to beautify your stairs or corridors? Max Egger won't do a runner - he does several 52
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 62
Address Book Suppliers in this issue 66
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 132
Exhibition Diary Modern bedfellows, Procktor - Slade's number one, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 134
Journal Of A Blue Plaques Committee Member Rosemary Hill explains which VI Ps make it into the charmed circle 152
Interiors Lionel jadot imagined an impassioned botanist when designing part of this four-floor regenct town house in Knightsbridge. Ros Byam Shaw warms to the Belgian’s tall tales. 80
Storey Craft
Pizzazz In Shiraz In the 19th-century palace of an Iranian dignitary, Persian patronage meets Madame de Pompadour - squared. Marie-France Boyer sees Rococo run riot through Eastern eyes 90
Vestige Interest With its tulip tree brought from America in 1609 and a crinkle-crankle wall built by Napoleonic prisoners, Deans Court in Dorset pulses with the past, as Ros Byam Shaw reports 98
Holy Alliance The theatrical swagger of Roman Baroque in a drab church in rural France? Thanks to a bequest, two brothers in the 1740s made their pipe dream a reality, discovers Tim Beddow 114
Hello Crewel World Bailing from the Big Apple, Bill Jacklin and Janet Russo have wrapped themselves in the comfort blanket of Rhode Island. Carol Prisant studies the material evidence of their new life 122
Art & Antiques
Call of The Wild From 1912 on, a cluster of cabins on the lip of a Norwegian lake became a living Arts and Crafts laboratory for Nikolai Astrup and his clan. Tove Karstad Haugsbe goes back to the land 70
The Swim of Things Agostino Iacurci wants the huge murals he paints on Rome's buildings 'to be a bit like a neighbour whom no-one has met but everyone talks about'. Aliette Boshier is a fly on the wall 108
Vol.36,No 3,March 2016
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 20
Antennae roundup Our selection from London Design Week 33
Support group : Trying to cope with a difficult passage? Trust in one of Miranda Sinclair's console tables 40
Books : Reading on art, architecture and design 49
Design week fabrics Jessica Hayns and Max Egger choose the best new fabrics at London Design Week 58
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 75
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 78
Address book Suppliers in this issue 80
Inspiration : How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 154
Exhibition diary : The PRB up north, a yen for the West, die like an Egyptian, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 158
Solar energy : The Argentine polymath Xul Solar brought Modernism to his native land and a paintbox of hues to his stilted home in the Parana delta. Teresa Tedin Uruburu finds her senses flooded 92
Venice in firs Whipped into shape in 1926 by the Franchetti family, Castel Gardena is a city slicker of a palace, one that dominates its remote setting in the Dolomites, as Lee Marshall reports 102
Debo's design for living China chicken centrepieces and a 'Jailhouse Rock' phone ringtone were just two of the distinctive touches that Deborah Devonshire brought to Chatsworth. Text: Ruth Guilding 114
Fast track to favour Secessionist architect Otto Wagner balanced modernity and tradition in his station for the emperor on Vienna's commuter line - a clever platform for his career, reckons Michael Huey 120
Brushes with greatness Feathery trees, coral branches and Chinese silk-makers form painted backdrops in the house of antique collector Diana Robinson. It's a series of masterstrokes, says Ros Byam Shaw 128
Life is a cabaret A tightrope walker, a trombone player, a performing pig and more tow their circus through France in a 1940s Dutch caravan. Roll up, roll up, cries Marie-France Boyer 146
Art & Antiques
Journal of an entomologist : A mealworm macchiato to go? Sarah Beynon on the buzz surrounding her new insect eatery 180
Interiors
Solo show : A fashion/art curator has lined her ex-factory space with a rich collection of contemporary artworks - a personal 'Pitt Rivers Museum for the 20th century', suggests Matt Gibberd 82
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All unravelling : Recent RCA graduate Georgia Kemball explores the 'sentimentality of the threadbare' in handmade crafts with a storyline. She's ready for the fray, learns Damian Thompson 26
Trunk call : Toting jewellery, cigars or couture, grand tourists from Russian counts to maharajas have commissioned a chic malle from Louis Vuitton. Tim Beddow unlocks its Paris archive 140
Vol.36,No.4,April 2016
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 34
Mr & Ms Aligned : Emma and Sunny Todd juggle day jobs, family lite and their print venture, finds Helena Attlee 44
Antennae Roundup : Our selection of the best lampshades 55
Books : Reading on art, architecture and design 65
Double Agents : The quality of these mirrors, whether gilded or plastic, stares Max Egger in the face 92
Serious Pursuits : Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 119
Perennial Favourites : Weeding out all that's wintry, Miranda Sinclair sows the seeds of some floral fabrics 134
Moor's Utopia : At an Arab-tinged palace near Bologna, Jessica Hayns lays out Milan's finest furniture 146
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 170
Address Book : Suppliers in this issue 176
Inspiration : How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 254
Exhibition Diary : A Swede in the lead, Purbeck painters, foreign focus, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 258
Journal of A Mudlark : Steve 'Mud God' Brooker fits the pieces washed up by the Thames into London's historic jigsaw 280
Interiors
Scott's Miscellany : Fleeing vilification, Norman Scott found refuge amid church carvings, Victorian quilts and Connecticut clocks in a Dartmoor longhouse. Dinah Hall mucks in with his menagerie 186
Frames of Reference : Suffused with mid-century Hollywood razzmatazz, Miles Redd's Manhattan flat has star quality. At the premiere of its unveiling, the decorator ushers you across the red carpet 202
Small Wonder : Fans of Modern Italian furniture will love Claudio Loria's pied-a-terre in Milan, three dinky platforms in one room. Marie-France Boyer cheers the dealer from the terraces 214
Shogun Wedding : In 1720, an upper-caste samurai house was dismantled, moved and reassembled on a tropical island off Japan. Under its overhanging eaves, Augusta Pownall paces the tatami rooms 220
Sex On A Stalk : Orchids, which Proust likened to harlots, piqued the passions of Victorian plantsmen - and McBean's nursery, still going strong today, was on hand to feed the fire, learns Tim Beddow 228
Leaps And Bindings : Magg Bros'venerable Berkeley Square location may now be no more, but aptly enough, these printed pages preserve the bookseller's Georgian home for ever. Ruth Guilding pens the postscript 234
It's All Greek : The Book of Revelation was written on Patmos in the Aegean, where Melina Blaxland-Horne has rescued an ancestor's home. As Tim Beddow discovers, she's evangelical about authenticity 244
Art & Antiques
A Painter's Progress : Hans Feibusch, a Jewish refugee during the war, became the C of E's go-to guy for its church murals. In an Eastbourne crypt, one based on Bunyan is in jeopardy. Text: Simon Martin 110
Japan To A Tee : Embroidered with bamboo or printed with polka dots, kimonos have been worn by samurai warriors and Youtube sensations. Muriel Zagha unpacks the cultural baggage 124
Mixed Blessing : In the Enlightenment magnet of 1690s Delft, an amateur artist hand-painted a colour chart of over 2,000 shades - ideal, says Sophie Barling, for depicting the bounty of the Dutch empire 196
Vol.36,No.5,May 2016
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 16
Illusions of grand years : The panels Lady Diana Cooper ordered are now for sale, says her son John Julius Norwich 22
Antennae Roundup Our selection of the best poufs and ottomans 27
Seeing Stars Ensconce yourself while Miranda Sinclair fans the flames of your candlestick desires 30
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 49
Lucky Stripes : If you're partial to a bit of silk, watch as Max Egger conducts a battle of the bands 58
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 69
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 165
Address book Suppliers in this issue 166
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 240
Exhibition Diary : Flavour Flavin, the significance of Sicily, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 244
Journal of a floristry historian Trained arranger Felicity Hall says that the profession is no bed of roses 264
Special
The world of kitchens and bathrooms In our special supplement, soak up a Modernist villa as sleek as an ocean liner, simmer down in a tree-house kitchen with a fine Devon prospect - and enjoy some frothy tap-dancing, tub-thumping fun 73
Interiors
Corridor of power For added grandeur, the owners of this Madrid apartment, a royal neighbour, burnished Christophe Gollut's decor. Perhaps one can gild a lily after all, suggests Ros Byam Shaw 170
Ahead of the flatpack The home of Nairobi resident and Nordic design pioneer Per Geheb is a shrine to flea-market flanerie - now, finds Tim Beddow, he's dismantling his colonial prefab and moving 182
Hunter's Stew If you're tempted to declare open season on the Musee de la Chasse, know that this quirky 'home museum' in Paris defies expectations. Call off the dogs, cries Marie-France Boyer 194
Paris Match A homage to Pierre Chareau's Modernist Maison de Verre, iconic glass bricks and all, has landed in Primrose Hill - but with a hi-tech boost, as Matt Gibberd discovers 202
Signs of a time Junk-shop jetsam - from stuffed fish to French bistro clocks - fills an octogenarian artist's house in London. It's a memory bank that wards off loneliness, learns John Pearson 212
Midnight becomes him From a Japanese lacquer cabinet to black loo paper, architect David Mann has a liking for liquorice tones... But in his Hudson villa there's no monochrome mania. Text: Carol Prisant 222
Grand walls of China : The late 18th-century Oriental murals in Ferdinand I's Neapolitan palace are filled with details of, er, southern Italian life. Authenticity's loss is our gain, concludes Lee Marshall 232
Art and antiques
Sultans of bling Anne Steinmann's paintings of ornate Cairo living rooms and Corbusian kitchens feature two- and three-dimensional elements. Can Muriel Zagha tell what's 'op' and what's pop-up? 190
Vol.36,No.6,June 2016
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 18
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best door furniture 27
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 37
Splash Hits Historic patterns made modern? Miranda Sinclair gives us a toile or two by the beach 52
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 65
Shelf life Give your cupboard love - this range of vessels covers soup to nuts, says Max Egger 66
Art and antiques guide Welcome to our biddable supplement, a gallery of Strand photographs, Chinese sconces - plus a dark dose of Dubuffet. We also air the artiest retail and serve up the season's fairs in full 75
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 152
Address book Suppliers in this issue 156
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 234
Exhibition diary Land art ahoy!, flowers of femininity, the nude seekers, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 238
Journal of an underwater sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor promotes marine ecology with his statues on the seabed 260
Interiors
Pompadour's proteges There's nothing fishy about Antoinette Poisson, name aside. Indeed, two of its founders cover their Paris flat with the selfsame 18th-century-style wallpapers they sell. Text: Valerie Lapierre 162
Visions of Byzantium David Winfield's conservation work at a 13th-century church in Turkey filled a hole in history - and revealed how Medieval muralists actually worked. Antony Eastmond reports 172
Common threads Specially commissioned ribbons snake through the Magowans'west London terrace house -a homage to former occupants, a family of Edwardian drapers. Text: Dominic Bradbury 178
Marchioness in mourning Despite its Burgundy location, the chateau of Cormatin was the height of Paris fashion in the 1620s, says Marie-France Boyer, complete with a gilded study and a chamber of curiosities 188
The making of bacon Before 1933, when he devoted himself fully to painting, Francis Bacon dabbled in interior design. Rebecca Daniels links his furniture to the framing devices of his intense artworks 200
Back at the ranch Despite its modern silhouette, basic materials built this Uruguayan loft house by the coast. Though close to upmarket resorts, it's 'more pampas than pampering', says Lee Marshall 206
A fine balance A cocktail of Edwardian and Indian flavours - neon paisleys, tented ceilings and pierced screens - whet appetites in this Jaipur bar. Henry Wilson meets its maker/shaker 216
Cream Of Caramel Lined with fine brown parcel paper, this bijou London flat, decorated by James McWhirter, comes ready gift-wrapped. It's classic Colefax, says Tim Beddow, adapted for present times 224
Vol.36,No.7,July 2016
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 10
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best napkins 13
IVY League Scallop-shell sconces and other wall lights make up Miranda Sinclair's exclusive fraternity 18
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 25
Serious Pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 28
Eye Candy Furnishings giving you the needle? Max Egger sugars the pill with embroidered fabrics 32
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 40
Address Book Suppliers in this issue 42
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 114
Exhibition diary Painters' hang-ups, Heilmann's chatty Modernism, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 116
Journal Of A Gastrophysicist Taste begins in our minds not our mouths, says experimental psychologist Charles Spence 136
Interiors
Domesday Descent One long room in a stable block on Exmoor houses the Wolseleys' ancestral relics - but, says Sophie Barling, the thriving community near at hand gives them a renewed relevance 44
Niche Appeal
With ornate doors and plaster alcoves, this Zanzibari beach house is an Arab/African blend. Add a Palestinian and a dash of Dutch to make a high-bred hybrid. Text: Tim Beddow 54
La Vie Parisienne Did Napoleon III have 'small man syndrome'? Modest though tenor Philippe Dorthe's rooms are, their air of 19th -century opera has Valerie Lapierre discerning imperial ambitions 64
Border Control In Paris, a black cornice marshals Morris-y murals and wallpapered doors... Decoratively daring, Annabel Karrim Kassar stays on the right side of the line, reckons Tim Beddow 80
Icing on the cake An Italian count will display his 20th-century art collection against Neoclassical plasterwork in a smart St James's town house. Downstairs, discovers Tim Auld, Wilde's fate was sealed 90
sandwiches and skirmishes Bohemian life in Oslo once revolved round its Grand Cafe - witness Per Krohg's fine mural in situ. There Munch and Ibsen also made a scene, as Martin Gayford reports 96
The Test Of Time Despite the cool contemporary stuff in Jamie Gray's 1905 upstate retreat, Matter's main man has kept its clapboard front and stovepipe simplicity. Text: Ana Domfnguez Siemens 104
Art & antiques
Trade secrets A Birmingham printer's scrapbook filled with engraved business cards advertises more than forgotten professions, says Alex Ramsay: the elegance of Regency penmanship 74
Vol.36,No.8,Aug.2016
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 8
Antennae Roundup : Our selection of the best hi-fi equipment 11
Books : Reading on art, architecture and design 15
Bubble & Streak : Textures, stripes and spots: Miranda Sinclair offers a hot line to the finest glassware 18
Serious Pursuits : Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 27
Green Credentials? Foliage-print fabrics are perennial favourites, so hedge your bets with Max Egger's picks 28
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 34
Address Book : Suppliers in this issue 36
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 104
Exhibition Diary : Understanding O'Keeffe, London's burning.plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 106
Journal of a gas lamp manager Some 1,300 non-electric lamps shed light on London's pavements and its past, says Iain Bell
Interiors
Touches of Amalfi A cliff-top villa on the Tyrrhenian sea counts Hollywood royalty and a glamorous ceramicist among its former residents. Cleverly restored, it's quite the production, says Ana Cardinale 38
Jung romantics For 55 years, psychotherapist Julian David has been tending to the tumbledown Devon farmhouse he bought with his new bride. Ros Byam Shaw analyses their creative urge 48
Buddy Move Fiona Lewis swapped LA's bright lights for no electricity in a dilapidated French farmhouse. Unfazed by unforeseen plot twists, the actress learned to improvise. Text: Tim Beddow 64
Whole In One : Francesco Carraro was that rare collector who only bought what he loved. His Venice rooms speak of a man for whom style and substance were one and the same, finds Sophie Barling 74
In Praise Of Folly : Created by a young baron with a vast fortune, Bedfordshire's Swiss Garden, with its fairytale cabins, is whimsy made wooden. Just don't expect anything Swiss, says Matthew Dennison 84
London Underground : David Bieda's red-brick town house stands as a symbol of Soho's history. But Leana Pooley digs out a more intimate tale of Georgian London - in the servants' hidden cesspit 94
Art & Antiques
Walls of wonder : Once part of a huge private treasury, five cabinets of creatures pinned, pickled and stuffed are now on show for all to see in Paris. Marie-France Boyer finds her curiosity piqued 58
Vol.36,No.9,Sep.2016
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 20
Antennae Roundup : Our selection of the best beds and mattresses 25
Back Story : Upholstered armchairs have a proper skeleton, says Max Egger, and you'll feel it in your bones 30
Books : Reading on art, architecture and design 41
Winning Formulas : Geometric fabrics offer order, and Miranda Sinclair shares the sum of her knowledge 48
Serious Pursuits : Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 58
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 62
Address Book : Suppliers in this issue 66
Inspiration : How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 136
Exhibition Diary : Eye and I, the eclipsing of Jeremy Moon, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 140
Journal of a Bloomsbury collector : David Herbert’s passion for the Omega set has culminated in an exhibition 164
Interiors
Liner Notes : Patrick Kinmonth and Tessa Traeger's 1930s flat is full to the gunwales with choice objects, from Poole pots to Craigie Aitchison paintings. Robin Muir likes the cut of its jib 68
Sacred Histories : Despite the best efforts of Henry VIII, a 12th-century religious settlement in Sussex lives on. For its odd corbels, buttery and inglenook hearth, Ruth Guilding gives prior approval 78
Fascinating Rhythm : In this fine-tuned Notting Hill villa, architect Tom Bartlett of Waldo Works hit just the right note for his classical music-loving clients. Bethan Ryder makes a song and dance about it 102
…And Called Them Macaronis : After World War I, Italian charcoal makers migrated to southwest France - now a local group has rekindled their tough life in the forest. Tim Beddow adds fuel to the fire 112
Basic Instinct : Plaster gargoyles, a meadow mural and a home-forged spiral staircase seem ripe for a fairy tale - but it's the family home of a noble French primitive, as Marie -France Boyer reports 126
Art & Antiques
Tempted By Innocence : Christopher Wood's subject matter may have seemed naive - bathers, boats and bedrooms -but a darkness lurked beneath. So was this interwar artist a phony? asks Charles Darwent 88
Republic In The Round : How Americans view their past has been shaped in part by Daniel Chester French, 19th-century sculptor extraordinaire. Michael Gotkin visits his studio in Massachusetts 94
Spring Fever : Paris department store, Printemps, matched graduate designers to traditional ateliers, bringing affordable pottery to the masses. Marie-France Boyer applauds its feats of clay 118
Vol.36,No.10,Oct.2016
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 42
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 91
Stamp collection The reissuing of Barron and Larcher's textiles has been delivered first class, says Jean Vacher 110
Table talk Tables to dine for? Chairman of the board Max Egger gets the deciding vote 146
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 167
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 311
Address book 314
Suppliers in this issue
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 406
Exhibition diary Lights fantastic, culture of the Cold War, the crafted book, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 410
Journal of a bench How a Gerrit Rietveld bench made it from the Dutchman's flat to Frieze... Text: Anna Brady 436
Autumn shows
Antennae roundup Miranda Sinclair chooses her highlights from this year's Decorex and Focus design shows 67
Autumn swatch It's a stick-up job! Masked crusader Max Egger goes to Gotham to air the best new wallpapers 124
Autumn fabrics Jessica Hayns and Maud Hewlings get in pole position to showthe best of Decorex and Focus 172
Special
The world of london design From Polish pompoms and Pollocky papers to a motionless ocean and an ark of the dark... We deliver a new supplement devoted to the LDF, with a map, highlights of the shows and more 227
Interiors
In Fine Feather In her Stockwell home, dressmaker Maude Smith has conceived a rus in urbe, with Charleston chintzes and hanging hops. Add bird life, and Sophie Barling is all aflutter 324
cross purposes John Minshaw's pure interior-design style -seen here in his flat near Hyde Park - is thanks in part to potters Lucie Rie and Hans Coper. But he's reinvented the wheel, says Ros Byam Shaw 334
Holy ordure Nothing is wasted in India - in Rajasthan even cattle manure is used as fuel. Watching the locals store the cowpats in decorated bitoras, Laure Verniere discusses the turd way 344
Journeys in geometry Mathematics meets the multicoloured motifs of tribal cultures in Lucas Rise's eye-popping pieces. As Ana Cardinale discovers, in his house in Argentina, solid furniture turns psychedelic 350
Bakst to the future What happened when a kooky heiress lured the Ballets Russes designer to revamp her pile in Baltimore? A dose of Russian peasant motifs with dance given a stage. Text: Carol Prisant 360
Forget me not Better known for their eponymous castle near York, the Howards also have a place in Wiltshire - one made over in subtly surprising ways by a late friend, Laura Jeffreys. Text: Ros Byam Shaw 378
Sanctum By The Spinney Flush with Tarka the Otter prize money, Henry Williamson built a writer's cabin in remotest Devon.'Mazed as a brish' to locals, he honed his naturalist's eye here, says Ruth Guilding 390
Out of this world Living in this Scottish Jacobean Revival house is like dealing with a bolshy teenager, reckon the owners. But now, as an art and sculpture park, it's maturing fast, says Christopher Simon Sykes 396
Art & antiques
The manor reborn Glaze junkie Kate Malone has been grappling with 'legout Rothschild' for a Waddesdon show. Grace McCloud chats with the ceramicist kilnside at her Islington mews house/studio 52
Magnum opus English embroidery was highly prized in the Middle Ages. Indeed, argues Sophie Barling, every cope, bishop's stocking and seal bag holds trade history and cultural riches in its stitches 136
Illuminating a legend When dealer Peter Woodward heard about a sale of Maison Charles's grand stock, he leaped on the Eurostar. That's even before a hidden cache resurfaced, says Timothy Brittain-Catlin 156
Braidy bunch Humble materials from the souk, from metallic braids and ribbons to detergent packets, adorn Francois Gilles's collection of tote bags. Look out Chanel, warns Marie-France Boyer 372
Vol.36,No.11,Nov.2016
Cover Arch Deacon - Two Piece by Richard f Deacon sits in a panel in Alex Cochrane's family home in Kensington. What else did the architect ordain? See page 110. Photograph: Simon Upton
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 22
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best wardrobes 27
Injiri time Weft with added heft is a Gujarati weaving tradition, as Grace McCloud discovers 36
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 45
Dolly mixture Put childish fabrics behind you, instructs Maud Hewlings, and adopt textured linens 54
Trim pickings
Are you a passementerie person? Max Egger is eager to promote the fringe benefits 64
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 75
Fruits of the forest Jessica Hayns sees the Milan furniture fair's finest offerings become babes in the wood 76
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 98
Address book Suppliers in this issue 100
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 170
Exhibition diary The teething of Nash, art strata, Victoria chez Napoleon, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 174
Journal of a Picasso Muse Sylvette David, now Lydia Corbett, caught the eye of the Spaniard - and her life changed 196
Interiors
A head for heights Creating a family-friendly habitat from a lofty Kensington mansion is no mean feat - happily, architect Alex Cochrane was up to the task. Elfreda Pownall applauds his vaulted ambition 110
Shell life
The very material that threatens the sea turtle's existence - plastic - is used in consciousness-raising artworks at a refuge for the reptiles in Kenya. Tim Beddow reports 120
New dogs, old tricks Three generations of an artistic family live and work together in a huge house in Scotland - but anyone looking for conflict is barking up the wrong tree, discovers Ruth Guilding 130
London bloomer Now Hackney's E5 Bakehouse has acquired 50 employees in five years, there's little left to prove. Founder Ben Mackinnon explains to Sophie Barling why he loves the daily grind 142
Eurasian steps The grand panelled entrance halls of Tbilisi's mansions reflected the cosmopolitanism of Georgian elites - and that of Stalin's doctor is no exception, learns Joseph Alexander Smith 148
The art of less In his converted coach house in Hackney, gallerist Stuart Shave has rejected 'polished minimalism' for something even less varnished. Kate Jacobs succumbs to the hard cell 162
Art & antiques
Frisian seasons In his modest living room, a Dutch milkman (with a love of jazzy ties) painted frescoes of rural life, spring through winter. Marie-France Boyer ushers them past your eyes 102
Rebel Rebels
David Bowie declared 1980s Postmodernists the Memphis Group hunky dory. As part of the musical chameleon's collection goes up for sale, Stephen Patience picks out the pin-ups 154
Vol.36,No.12,Dec.2016
Antennae Who's been inspired by designs from the ; near and distant past? asks Nathalie Wilson 28
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best archive designs 51
Books Damian Thompson's Christmas roundup 63
In with the old Jessica Hayns has plundered JVofs vaults to celebrate 35 years of distinctive decoration 72
History of the blues As we did in issue no.1, Max Egger celebrates the loveliest blue-and-white china around 82
Completely off the wall The 'art on furniture' of 1960s group Danad is being reissued. Kate Jacobs investigates 94
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 107
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 111
Address book Suppliers in this issue 116
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 204
'Exhibition diary Pasmore's passages, Islamic magic, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 208
Journal of a bottle collector Matthew Slocombe spent much of his boyhood knee-deep in Victorian cesspits...228
Interiors
Time and tide For six decades the artist Mary Fedden has lived in a little warehouse by the Thames -primitive but life-affirming, says Christopher Andreae. First published: June 2007 36
Golden treasury Leaving her flat above Colefax & Fowler, Nancy Lancaster is wistful. As she packs up her treasures, she tops up Nicholas Haslam's gin and tonic. First published: September 1982 120
United front The his 'n'hers houses that Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo commissioned in Mexico City add up to a double portrait in 3D. Text: Timothy Brittain-Catlin. First published: June 2005 126
The wood life With no heating or water, the 18th-century pine-lined house of a farming clan opens Marie-France Boyer's eyes to the hardship of rural France. First published: May 1996 132
A Prussian PompeII A Roman general on campaign was just one decorative fantasy realised by Schinkel at a princely palace in Potsdam. Text: Michael Huey. First published: December 1991 124
Electric eye Rare is the man whose passions include Baroque music, TV shopping channels and Minimalist art. Meet collector Mark R., says Sarah Howell. First published: January 1999 148
Our man in tangier Antique dealer Christopher Gibbs overlooks the Strait of Gibraltar in an atmospheric house with its own fascinating provenance. Text: Umberto Pasti. First published: March 2000 154
Cold comfort Every year near the Arctic Circle, 4,000 tons of frozen water are sculpted into the Ice Hotel. Peter Grant snuggles into his reindeer hide. First published: October 1998 160
Deco undimmed In her Paris flat, an interwar Lady Havisham preserved luxurious fittings and furniture in pristine condition - by keeping the world out. Bibi Gex reports. First published: March 1999 170
Natty tread Tackling the problem of discarded tyres that litter Tanzania, an artist has put the dead rubber to domestic use, as Daniel Dickinson discovered. First published: October 2005 176
Cast of thousands In a Paddington bedsit, plaster-cast master Peter Hone holds court in Soanean splendour. Alistair McAlpine pops by for a Mad Hatter's tea party. First published: September 1994 180
Celestial empire The exiled King Ferdinand's Chinese Palace in Palermo promoted his divine right to rule as monarchies were tumbling. Text: Lorenza Bianda Pasquinelli. First published: June 2000 186
Mid-century modified Peter Shire has jazzed up his parents' Modernist home in LA with hot hues and his own cartoonish furniture. Text: Jonathan Griffin. First published: December 2011 192
Chronicle on the common A 'very superior mongrel', Southside House has annals littered with illustrious names, from Anne Boleyn to Tsar Nicholas. Text: Dinah Hall. First published: October 1986 198
Art & antiques
Minton condition A pioneer of bone china, the Stoke firm held its earliest designs for cups and saucers in a leather pattern book. Sarah Howell cocks her pinky. First published: July/August 1989 138
Flight of imagination Having worked alongside Picasso in Vallauris, Guidette Carbonell found a niche with her mythical 'harpies'. Text: Marie-France Boyer. First published: October 2007 166
Vol.37,No.1,January 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 12
Antennae roundup : Our selection of the best decorative panels of wallpaper 15
Press freedom : The irregularities of block-print fabrics are stamped with charm, says Maude Smith 18
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 25
Chairs of the board Pull up a pew and record this minute: Max Egger announces 'four legs good' 28
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 34
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 36
Address Book Suppliers in this issue 38
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 106
Exhibition diary Pop's memory man, the muse and the admiral, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 108
Journal Of A'human Google' The New York Public Library's Matthew J. Boylan fields questions from Joe Public 128
Interiors
Gripped by the grape At most 'sleeping beauty' castles, dense foliage lies outside - but at Palazzo Sonnino in Tuscany, lush greenery appears in the rooms' 18th-century frescoes, as Marella Caracciolo reports 40
On his metal Have your minimalist cake and eat it in the Paris flat Pierre Saalburg restored for his mother - artworks hide behind black lacquer doors ready for display. Text: Valerie Lapierre 50
Thorns without a rose What if a hosepipe ban were permanent? Dry gardening disciples Arnaud Maurieres and Eric Ossart use desert plants diligently - and the former says why their ideas hold water 60
Pointed criticisms Domesticity doesn't get more high-church than George Gilbert Scott's vicarage near Offa's Dyke, lovingly restored by a fan of Gothic Revival. Helena Attlee hymns a song of praise 68
Palm trees and paw prints After his marriage to dancer Tilly Losch ended, eccentric art collector Edward James ran away from his West Sussex seat, leaving behind a Surrealist treasury. Text: Joanna Moorhead 82
Chalet in shadow Commissioned by a Jew as Mussolini rose, this holiday home in the Italian Dolomites -Mitteleuropa meets Modernism - would never become the hoped-for haven, says Lee Marshall 90
Art & antiques
Painter in a pith hat
Braving cannibals, Victorian adventurer Constance Gordon Cumming sailed to Fiji, meticulously recording the natives' material culture. Celia Lyttelton gets her pound of flesh 76
From the archive
Coming up roses The owners of Petersham Nurseries live next door in a 1680s mansion whose Neoclassical features are offset, says Amicia de Moubray, by 'cutting-edge art'. First published: April 2006 96
Vol.37,No.2,February 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 20
Antennae Roundup Our selection of the best candles 31
Side show Are occasional tables a decorative distraction? Make them the focal point, says Maude Smith 34
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 45
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 50
Capital stuff Before the snow turns to slush, take your ease in some plush... Max Egger piles on the velvet 52
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 62
Address book Suppliers in this issue 66
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 132
Exhibition diary Brangwyn looks East, earthy as Eardley, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 134
Journal of a Treasure Registrar Ian Richardson's job is to administer hoards of the general public 152
Interiors
French evolution Parisian chic through a New York lens marks the guest flat of fashion designer Lisa Perry. Her Pierre Paulin furniture makes it a memorable Manhattan transfer, says Kristiano Ang 70
Distance keepers : The life aesthetic is played out by two former V&A curators in a Wealden hall house in Suffolk. They show off their salerooms steals and fancy flypitch finds to Ruth Guilding 80
Money for jambs Trade in slaves and spices can be read in the massive wooden doors of Zanzibar's historic merchants. As Tim Beddow shows, this dying Swahili art form is not just a load of old lintels 90
Flora Alla Fiorentina With its specimens found on Darwin's Beagle voyage and the odd wax citrus of the Medici, Florence's botanical museum sows the seeds of horticultural history. Text: Alex Ramsay 96
Canaries, crystal and carnations Pretty as a parrot, fashion designer Topolina's Tangier nest is filled with Venetian mirrors, florals and funky furniture. Beautiful plumage! chirps Marie-France Boyer 106
Stone-Age Survivors Everyone from De Chirico to Jim Dine has pressed themselves on Bulla printer's, Rome's longest-standing lithography studio. Marella Caracciolo says it's inked its name in the annals 116
From the archive
Swede symmetry Urbane and rustic merge in this 18th-century summerhouse, where painted chinoiserie wallpaper hangs above untreated boards. Text: Elisabeth Seise. First published: February 1987 122
Vol.37,No.3,March 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 20
Antennae roundup Our selection from London Design Week 25
Branch lines From blue onion bowls to lily-pad plates, botanical china is growing on Maude Smith 36
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 43
Design week fabrics Jessica Hayns and Max Egger send the best new fabrics down the runway 52
'Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 69
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 78
Address book Suppliers in this issue 80
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 154
Exhibition diary Bolshevik visions, my brilliant Korea, Bell's epoch, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 158
Journal of A Sand Sculptor Calvin Seibert's mini 'monstrous carbuncles' -Brutalist sandcastles - dot New York's beaches 180
Interiors
Gypsum swing Bridget Elworthy ignored her husband's advice - to 'grass it all over and get some sheep' -turning their Oxfordshire estate into a cut-flower empire. Ruth Guilding buttonholes her 82
Picking up the thread The late Tibor Reich's Stratford home is filled with his fabrics for the royal yacht, the Festival of Britain and more. Now the pile has passed to his grandson, finds Timothy Brittain-Catlin 94
Chateau Nouveau Whiplash motifs and pharaonic imagery once mingled with Bugatti furniture amid a fug of opium in a now empty chateau near Marseille. Tim Beddow tells the tale of an heir gone bad 104
Slide show Picture Balinese gazebos transplanted to south Morocco amid fig, olive and pomegranate trees... Marc Belli's tranquil camping cabins face the Atlas mountains. Text: Valerie Lapierre 120
Capital Expenditure As the Impressionist oils, Rodin bronze and Maison Jansen tables in this apartment attest, it takes Americans in Paris to out-Frenchify the French. Zut alors! cries Loreto Lopez-Quesada 128
Test of friendship Peggy Angus lived a rich life in impoverished circumstances. At her Sussex cottage, Ravilious et al mucked in, making midsummer magical. Text: Olive Cook. First published: March 1985 138
Talent to a mews Her circle includes Lucie Rie and Edmund de Waal, so it's no wonder the flat of Egg founder Maureen Doherty has a quiet purity. Timothy Brittain-Catlin basks in its lustre 146
Art & antiques
Blasts from the past From Vesuvius to Krakatoa, volcanoes have been a source of human awe for centuries, as an exhibition at the Bodleian demonstrates. Mr lava man, Stephen Patience, goes with the flow 72
Animal, vegetable, mineral? Two faience factories in northeast France turned faux food into an 18th-century art. On a diet of bogus boar's heads and sham cabbages, Marie-France Boyer has been feasting her eyes 112
Vol.37,No.4,April 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 42
Matched and mixed Is perfect pitch in colour a thing? Paint-maker Francesca Wezel's got it, thinks Grace McCloud 52
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best fireplace products 65
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 83
Palace revolution Milan's finest furniture oozes class in a noble setting. Jessica Hayns excludes the lower orders 106
Net assets See-through fabrics, from voiles to lace, will get your neighbours twitching, says Maude Smith 142
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 155
Across the boards Carpets, kilims and rugs of this quality are good for the soles, concludes Max Egger 160
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 174
Address book Suppliers in this issue 180
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 258
Exhibition diary Altar egos, Hodgkin's people, sound in the suburbs, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 262
Journal Of An Antique Bed Restorer Ian Coulson had to pinch himself on finding a treasure hidden in plain sight 284
Interiors
Welsh assemblage As head of Colefax & Fowler's antique department, Roger Jones knows a thing or two about combining objects, as his Welsh rectory - and this self-penned article - attests.190
Half board? Brussels' Jam Hotel, with its Cubist collages and Constructivist reliefs, proves that story-driven interiors are the preserve of Belgian bad boy Lionel Jadot. Text: Valerie Lapierre 202
Saline solution The Jubilee Pool of 1937 is a boon for the people of Penzance and a bulwark against southwesterly storms. Ruth Guilding learns of the practical functions fulfilled by maritime Modernism 218
Fung Shui Order reigns in the London studio - once a mechanic's garage - shared by Spencer Fung and Teresa Roviras. Marcus Field explores the what, why and Tao of nature-inspired design 224
Multicolour dream coats In this Georgian seaside weekend home, a glossy black hallway gives hardly a hint of the chinoiserie shades and Baroque cocktail beyond, as Ros Byam Shaw discovers 232
Turning the tide This Rococo shell house in County Kildare is so hallucinatory that one accepts its ghostly 18th-century Chinese statue without murmur. It's well worth a trip, reckons Sophie Barling 242
Silent partners Alexandre Hollan has painted the same trees and utilitarian objects for 30 years. The ascetic Hungarian in Provence has twigged something about art, reckons Catherine de Montalembert 250
Art & Antiques
Raj against the machine John Lockward Kipling, the author's father, was an 'old India hand', but fought to preserve the subcontinent's craft traditions from coarse Western copies, as Stephen Calloway recounts 70
Feathers, fur and flowers Braquenie's rugs have graced the Vatican, the Dolmabahce Palace and Louis XVI's bedroom. Its specially appointed archivist sees a'never-ending cycle' of design. Text: Elfreda Pownall 132
From the archive
Life on the nile Hugh Sowden's impossibly romantic cottage complex near Cairo is a short walk through the desert from the Saqqara pyramids, learns Olivia Temple. First published: September 2003 210
Vol.37,No.5,May 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 16
Antennae roundup : Our selection of the best modern lamps 21
The hammer of yore Choreographer turned coppersmith Michael Johnson is into heavy metal, says Ruth Guilding 24
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 29
Grand nationals From chintzes to ikats, Jessica Hayns goes round the world seeking exotic fabrics 38
Serious pursuits : Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 49
Candy's dandy : Passementerie appeals to sophisticates with sweet tooths, says soft-centred Maude Smith 54
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 157
Address book Suppliers in this issue 158
Inspiration : How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 232
Exhibition diary Gay display, Sime's time, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 236
Journal of a historical gastronomist Sarah Lohman relives old recipes in the belly of America's past 256
Special
The world of kitchens and bathrooms Dalf the delicious meets an old Dutch kitchen and a Roman bath that Caligula would kill for. From pomegranate soap to polished marble, feather dusters to fitted kitchens - see what's bubbling to the surface 65
Interiors
Manor on the marshDesmond MacCarthy, of BBC2's Normal for Norfolk fame, has had to be creative to keep his Jacobean estate Wiveton afloat. Cafes and film crews have been crucial, learns Ruth Guilding 162
Waves goodbye With its portholes and rippling ceiling - even a shoal of porcelain fish - the Selbys' Uruguayan beach house has a salty tang. So why does it turn its back on the sea? asks Ros Byam Shaw 174
League over nations Apprentices of the Hanseatic League in Bergen, Norway, had to sign over their lives to the god of money - and their notorious initiation rite was a diabolical test, as Laura Freeman reports 190
Fired with a passion : Potter Pierre Culot converted an 18th-century farmhouse outside Brussels, whose purity reflects the Japanese mingei tradition. Now his son carries the torch, says Amy Sherlock 206
A flair to remember : Everyone from the Queen Mother to Pablo Picasso was intimate with artist/editor Fleur Cowles. Discretion was guaranteed at her Albany set parties, as Revel Guest recalls 214
Art and antiques
Magic markers The handmade shop signs in 19th-century Japan, indicating what's inside, were often as cryptic as crossword clues. Keen consumer Augusta Pownall has cracked the (bar)code 184
Souls, inside silhouettes Indian artist Hormazd Narielwalla turns tailor's patterns and other fashion ephemera into prints. At his Whitechapel studio, Charlotte Edwards says his work's a cut above 198
From the archive
Menage and menagerie
In a traditional farm in the Moroccan High Atlas, man and beast live in close communion. Marie-France Boyer joins them for couscous. First published: December 2011 224
Vol.37,No.6,June 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 16
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best bed linen 21
Elements of style : Metal furniture has the glamour to steal the show, says Max Egger, who shows the steel.. 28
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 37
Rolling back the years Historic wallpapers unfurl the flavours of past times. Maude Smith delivers her roll call 52
Art and antiques guide Lots to see! Hoover up carpets in art, boost your interest rates with Keynes's college rooms, and screen top printers in an old film factory. We also parade the Venice Biennale pavilions and list the international season's fairs 65
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 143
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 154
Address book Suppliers in this issue 158
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 234
Exhibition diary Hokusai's hovel, Scotch snappers, Futurist as dandy, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 238
Journal of a 360 photographer Fabienne Jung makes historic and hard-to-access interiors available to online audiences 260
Interiors
The real Macaw Decorator Nicolb Castellini Baldissera channels the spirit of Matisse in his Tangier home, replete with rich colours and antique fabrics, as Marie-France Boyer reports 174
All that glisters In the Palladian Croome Court, a Dutch artist has installed a golden box displaying the Sixth Earl's collection of porcelain. Matthew Dennison is awestruck by Rococo alchemy 186
Particles of virtu : The intact Powys studio of Australian painter Sidney Nolan - complete with mercury lamp and paint-encrusted binoculars - offers clues to his working practice, says Rebecca Daniels 192
Double or quits In a former hardware depot in west London, painter Paul Huxley and curator Susie Allen have created a sprawling home/studio complex. Charlotte Edwards does the measuring-up 200
End of the line : With its wagon-wheel light, vintage groceries and zinc chill cabinets, this bar-cum-general store preserves rural Argentina in aspic. Isabel de Estrada sips gin with some local farmers 210
Ground zero? Proving that pictures look grand against (her own) wallpaper, designer Jennifer Shorto has filled her flat with the signs of a much travelled life. Marie-France Boyer finds her on a roll 216
The sky with limits Provence was a haven for Jews in the Middle Ages, and the synagogue in Carpentras -beautified in the 18th century - testifies to a hard-won survival. Text: Oliver Maclennan 226
From the archive
A bitter glitter Exiled from court in 1665 for slander, Roger de Bussy-Rabutin poured his anguish into the decor of his Burgundy chateau. Marie-France Boyer takes a gilt trip. First published: May 1994 162
Vol.37,No.7,July 2017
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 12
Antennae roundup : Our selection of the best eggcups 15
Setting pretty Prepared to fork out for cutlery? Then allow Maude Smith to spoon-feed you 18
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 25
Primary school You can have any colour fabric you like, says Max Egger, as long as it's red, blue or yellow 30
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 36
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 40
Address book Suppliers in this issue 42
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 114
Exhibition diary Melancholy Minton, the ultimatebonnie wee laddy, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 116
Journal of an architectural campaigner Catherine Croft, of the Twentieth Century Society, on building consensus...136
Interiors
Sitting portraits At Michigan's Cranbrook Academy, jeweller Iris Eichenberg has enriched her flat with ethnic rugs and midcentury chairs - Saarinen's interior is the perfect foil, says Carol Prisant 44
Lightbulb moment As Austrian glassware manufacturer Lobmeyr approaches its bicentenary, Michael Huey discovers how electrifying chandeliers for the emperor's ball modernised the Viennese whirl 54
Like Father Like Son Patmos attracts a well-heeled creative set, but the best houses - like this sea captain's villa -rely on deep local knowledge to do them up. Seek Greeks bearing gifts, says Tim Beddow 72
A taste of madeleine In a Normandy fisherman's cottage, an editor and a postwar antique dealer have concocted a Proustian fantasy, a piquant 'memory' of times not actually passed. Text: Valerie Lapierre 88
Sacred mysteries Mayan and Hispanic cultures collide in a 17th-century church in Mexico, one replete with strange symbols. Is this how invaders wooed indigenes? asks Timothy Brittain-Catlin 96
Baroque steady Serial house collectors Nicholas Alvis Vega and Liza Bruce have bagged a Grade I beauty, and, reckons Elfreda Pownall, subverted the countryside code with their naughty city ways 104
Art & antiques
The making of hay Why has the shop that stocked Enid Marx textiles, Bawden wallpapers and Ravilious designs slipped into obscurity? Ruth Guilding pulls up the blinds of a Mayfair emporium 82
From the archive
Sylvan Smiths Three generations of a green-fingered family have lovingly maintained a Gertrude Jekyll garden in Surrey. Annabel Freyberg dived into its dappled groves. First published : June 1993 64
Vol.37,No.8,August 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 12
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best bins and baskets 15
Blind ambition Fabrics printed with large-scale patterns are Maude Smith's frame of reference 18
Books : Reading on art, architecture and design 25
Serious pursuits : Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 29
Pull some shapes : From 'tree trunks' to tulipieres, Max Egger has ways to display your sprays and nosegays 30
Address Book Suppliers in this issue 35
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 36
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 104
Exhibition Diary Marks of the masters, art of Black Power, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 106
Journal of a dementia researcher What links art appreciation and social interaction? asks Janneke van Leeuwen 124
Interiors
Goan with a flow Ventilation is all in this 17th-century colonial mansion, as its fretwork panels, multiple doorways and oyster-shell windows attest. Ros Byam Shaw encounters the air apparent 38
Advice and virtueThanks in part to a before/after magazine feature on her then new Oxfordshire home, Magdalen Jebb would become a fabric firm's creative director. Elfreda Pownall hears how 56
All the tea in China
Scion of a New York banking dynasty, Lady X likes her things to have a provenance too, whether antique wallpaper or Cecil B. de Milk's casting couch. John Heilpern reports 74
Pleasure principles
Erwin Broner brought the Bauhaus (and some A-list artists) to Ibiza. The island vernacular fused with Corbusian cool in his own 1950s seaside villa, learns Catherine de Montalembert 86
Remains attraction
Retired journalist Jonathan Dawson bought a crumbling cliffhanger of a place near Tangier. Amid 'pesky' free-range hens and flea-market finds, he recounts what happened next... 94
Art & antiques
The silo witness
Marcus Jefferies reimagines the sort of lonely structures - from water towers to electricity substations - overlooked by us all. Jane Stacey visits his studio on the Somerset Levels 66
From the archive
Steward of the stuarts
Immortalised in Peter Greenaway's film The Draughtsman's Contract, Groombridge Place is a Caroline time capsule, says Mirabel Cecil. First published: July/August 1983 46
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World of Interiors
Vol.36,No 1,January 2016
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 8
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best products sold by museums and galleries 11
Rock solid Good for your posture, good for your soul -these chairs, um, rock! cries Miranda Sinclair 14
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 21
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 24
The new wavy Watered fabrics, or moires, bring iridescence to your interior. Max Egger says they're swell 26
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 32
Address book Suppliers in this issue 34
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 106
Exhibition diary The nice KKK, Anne Hardy's madding crowd, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 108
Journal of an architectural colourist As John Hinton explains, period authenticity often calls for a degree of artifice 128
Interiors
Force of destiny All but wiped out in the Spanish C jvil War, the land-owning Morales family now have an apt monument - a theatrical palacio near Seville. Celia Lyttelton meets the scion responsible 36
The house that yu built The rough-hewn pottery created by Yu Kobayashi in her live/work space in Japan feels akin to the furniture she's made from beach debris. Text: Timothy Brittain-Catlin 48
Stilts life Girondais shrimps and Arcachon oysters are just some of the delicacies served up in this riverside camlet. Laure Verniere meets the art historian owner enjoying his shellfish isolation 64
Plenty more fisher Will Fisher of Jamb did up a house in London after selling off all his stock. 'There's nothing worse than giving an antique dealer a load of bloody money,' he tells Charlotte Edwards 70
Peak of the slump Oregon's mountain-perching Timberline Lodge is a testament to FDR's New Deal -and the region's craft skills. Tim Beddow celebrates a pioneer of progressive policy 80
Twice upon a time The most romantic house in England'? That's what the Gibsons felt when they saw this Gofhick folly at Stourhead in Wol 30 years ago. Tim Beddow traces a chequered love story 96
Art & antiques
Rich and strange Romilly Saumarez Smith turns mudlarks' finds - Tudor pins, pilgrims' mirror cases and so on- into jewellery freighted with the past. Ruth Guilding eyes her 'dark goblin-hoard' 58
Men, monsters and merriment A star of the V&A's new Europe galleries, this 4m-long painting of the opulent Ommegang pageant is a vivid slice of 17th-century Brussels well worth processing past, says Susan Owens 90
Vol.36,No 2,February 2016
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 20
Mineralism : For metallic fabrics you need to dig deep -Miranda Sinclair is a mine of information 34
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 45
Serious Pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 50
Winning Streaks
Want to beautify your stairs or corridors? Max Egger won't do a runner - he does several 52
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 62
Address Book Suppliers in this issue 66
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 132
Exhibition Diary Modern bedfellows, Procktor - Slade's number one, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 134
Journal Of A Blue Plaques Committee Member Rosemary Hill explains which VI Ps make it into the charmed circle 152
Interiors Lionel jadot imagined an impassioned botanist when designing part of this four-floor regenct town house in Knightsbridge. Ros Byam Shaw warms to the Belgian’s tall tales. 80
Storey Craft
Pizzazz In Shiraz In the 19th-century palace of an Iranian dignitary, Persian patronage meets Madame de Pompadour - squared. Marie-France Boyer sees Rococo run riot through Eastern eyes 90
Vestige Interest With its tulip tree brought from America in 1609 and a crinkle-crankle wall built by Napoleonic prisoners, Deans Court in Dorset pulses with the past, as Ros Byam Shaw reports 98
Holy Alliance The theatrical swagger of Roman Baroque in a drab church in rural France? Thanks to a bequest, two brothers in the 1740s made their pipe dream a reality, discovers Tim Beddow 114
Hello Crewel World Bailing from the Big Apple, Bill Jacklin and Janet Russo have wrapped themselves in the comfort blanket of Rhode Island. Carol Prisant studies the material evidence of their new life 122
Art & Antiques
Call of The Wild From 1912 on, a cluster of cabins on the lip of a Norwegian lake became a living Arts and Crafts laboratory for Nikolai Astrup and his clan. Tove Karstad Haugsbe goes back to the land 70
The Swim of Things Agostino Iacurci wants the huge murals he paints on Rome's buildings 'to be a bit like a neighbour whom no-one has met but everyone talks about'. Aliette Boshier is a fly on the wall 108
Vol.36,No 3,March 2016
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 20
Antennae roundup Our selection from London Design Week 33
Support group : Trying to cope with a difficult passage? Trust in one of Miranda Sinclair's console tables 40
Books : Reading on art, architecture and design 49
Design week fabrics Jessica Hayns and Max Egger choose the best new fabrics at London Design Week 58
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 75
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 78
Address book Suppliers in this issue 80
Inspiration : How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 154
Exhibition diary : The PRB up north, a yen for the West, die like an Egyptian, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 158
Solar energy : The Argentine polymath Xul Solar brought Modernism to his native land and a paintbox of hues to his stilted home in the Parana delta. Teresa Tedin Uruburu finds her senses flooded 92
Venice in firs Whipped into shape in 1926 by the Franchetti family, Castel Gardena is a city slicker of a palace, one that dominates its remote setting in the Dolomites, as Lee Marshall reports 102
Debo's design for living China chicken centrepieces and a 'Jailhouse Rock' phone ringtone were just two of the distinctive touches that Deborah Devonshire brought to Chatsworth. Text: Ruth Guilding 114
Fast track to favour Secessionist architect Otto Wagner balanced modernity and tradition in his station for the emperor on Vienna's commuter line - a clever platform for his career, reckons Michael Huey 120
Brushes with greatness Feathery trees, coral branches and Chinese silk-makers form painted backdrops in the house of antique collector Diana Robinson. It's a series of masterstrokes, says Ros Byam Shaw 128
Life is a cabaret A tightrope walker, a trombone player, a performing pig and more tow their circus through France in a 1940s Dutch caravan. Roll up, roll up, cries Marie-France Boyer 146
Art & Antiques
Journal of an entomologist : A mealworm macchiato to go? Sarah Beynon on the buzz surrounding her new insect eatery 180
Interiors
Solo show : A fashion/art curator has lined her ex-factory space with a rich collection of contemporary artworks - a personal 'Pitt Rivers Museum for the 20th century', suggests Matt Gibberd 82
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All unravelling : Recent RCA graduate Georgia Kemball explores the 'sentimentality of the threadbare' in handmade crafts with a storyline. She's ready for the fray, learns Damian Thompson 26
Trunk call : Toting jewellery, cigars or couture, grand tourists from Russian counts to maharajas have commissioned a chic malle from Louis Vuitton. Tim Beddow unlocks its Paris archive 140
Vol.36,No.4,April 2016
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 34
Mr & Ms Aligned : Emma and Sunny Todd juggle day jobs, family lite and their print venture, finds Helena Attlee 44
Antennae Roundup : Our selection of the best lampshades 55
Books : Reading on art, architecture and design 65
Double Agents : The quality of these mirrors, whether gilded or plastic, stares Max Egger in the face 92
Serious Pursuits : Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 119
Perennial Favourites : Weeding out all that's wintry, Miranda Sinclair sows the seeds of some floral fabrics 134
Moor's Utopia : At an Arab-tinged palace near Bologna, Jessica Hayns lays out Milan's finest furniture 146
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 170
Address Book : Suppliers in this issue 176
Inspiration : How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 254
Exhibition Diary : A Swede in the lead, Purbeck painters, foreign focus, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 258
Journal of A Mudlark : Steve 'Mud God' Brooker fits the pieces washed up by the Thames into London's historic jigsaw 280
Interiors
Scott's Miscellany : Fleeing vilification, Norman Scott found refuge amid church carvings, Victorian quilts and Connecticut clocks in a Dartmoor longhouse. Dinah Hall mucks in with his menagerie 186
Frames of Reference : Suffused with mid-century Hollywood razzmatazz, Miles Redd's Manhattan flat has star quality. At the premiere of its unveiling, the decorator ushers you across the red carpet 202
Small Wonder : Fans of Modern Italian furniture will love Claudio Loria's pied-a-terre in Milan, three dinky platforms in one room. Marie-France Boyer cheers the dealer from the terraces 214
Shogun Wedding : In 1720, an upper-caste samurai house was dismantled, moved and reassembled on a tropical island off Japan. Under its overhanging eaves, Augusta Pownall paces the tatami rooms 220
Sex On A Stalk : Orchids, which Proust likened to harlots, piqued the passions of Victorian plantsmen - and McBean's nursery, still going strong today, was on hand to feed the fire, learns Tim Beddow 228
Leaps And Bindings : Magg Bros'venerable Berkeley Square location may now be no more, but aptly enough, these printed pages preserve the bookseller's Georgian home for ever. Ruth Guilding pens the postscript 234
It's All Greek : The Book of Revelation was written on Patmos in the Aegean, where Melina Blaxland-Horne has rescued an ancestor's home. As Tim Beddow discovers, she's evangelical about authenticity 244
Art & Antiques
A Painter's Progress : Hans Feibusch, a Jewish refugee during the war, became the C of E's go-to guy for its church murals. In an Eastbourne crypt, one based on Bunyan is in jeopardy. Text: Simon Martin 110
Japan To A Tee : Embroidered with bamboo or printed with polka dots, kimonos have been worn by samurai warriors and Youtube sensations. Muriel Zagha unpacks the cultural baggage 124
Mixed Blessing : In the Enlightenment magnet of 1690s Delft, an amateur artist hand-painted a colour chart of over 2,000 shades - ideal, says Sophie Barling, for depicting the bounty of the Dutch empire 196
Vol.36,No.5,May 2016
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 16
Illusions of grand years : The panels Lady Diana Cooper ordered are now for sale, says her son John Julius Norwich 22
Antennae Roundup Our selection of the best poufs and ottomans 27
Seeing Stars Ensconce yourself while Miranda Sinclair fans the flames of your candlestick desires 30
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 49
Lucky Stripes : If you're partial to a bit of silk, watch as Max Egger conducts a battle of the bands 58
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 69
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 165
Address book Suppliers in this issue 166
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 240
Exhibition Diary : Flavour Flavin, the significance of Sicily, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 244
Journal of a floristry historian Trained arranger Felicity Hall says that the profession is no bed of roses 264
Special
The world of kitchens and bathrooms In our special supplement, soak up a Modernist villa as sleek as an ocean liner, simmer down in a tree-house kitchen with a fine Devon prospect - and enjoy some frothy tap-dancing, tub-thumping fun 73
Interiors
Corridor of power For added grandeur, the owners of this Madrid apartment, a royal neighbour, burnished Christophe Gollut's decor. Perhaps one can gild a lily after all, suggests Ros Byam Shaw 170
Ahead of the flatpack The home of Nairobi resident and Nordic design pioneer Per Geheb is a shrine to flea-market flanerie - now, finds Tim Beddow, he's dismantling his colonial prefab and moving 182
Hunter's Stew If you're tempted to declare open season on the Musee de la Chasse, know that this quirky 'home museum' in Paris defies expectations. Call off the dogs, cries Marie-France Boyer 194
Paris Match A homage to Pierre Chareau's Modernist Maison de Verre, iconic glass bricks and all, has landed in Primrose Hill - but with a hi-tech boost, as Matt Gibberd discovers 202
Signs of a time Junk-shop jetsam - from stuffed fish to French bistro clocks - fills an octogenarian artist's house in London. It's a memory bank that wards off loneliness, learns John Pearson 212
Midnight becomes him From a Japanese lacquer cabinet to black loo paper, architect David Mann has a liking for liquorice tones... But in his Hudson villa there's no monochrome mania. Text: Carol Prisant 222
Grand walls of China : The late 18th-century Oriental murals in Ferdinand I's Neapolitan palace are filled with details of, er, southern Italian life. Authenticity's loss is our gain, concludes Lee Marshall 232
Art and antiques
Sultans of bling Anne Steinmann's paintings of ornate Cairo living rooms and Corbusian kitchens feature two- and three-dimensional elements. Can Muriel Zagha tell what's 'op' and what's pop-up? 190
Vol.36,No.6,June 2016
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 18
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best door furniture 27
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 37
Splash Hits Historic patterns made modern? Miranda Sinclair gives us a toile or two by the beach 52
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 65
Shelf life Give your cupboard love - this range of vessels covers soup to nuts, says Max Egger 66
Art and antiques guide Welcome to our biddable supplement, a gallery of Strand photographs, Chinese sconces - plus a dark dose of Dubuffet. We also air the artiest retail and serve up the season's fairs in full 75
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 152
Address book Suppliers in this issue 156
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 234
Exhibition diary Land art ahoy!, flowers of femininity, the nude seekers, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 238
Journal of an underwater sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor promotes marine ecology with his statues on the seabed 260
Interiors
Pompadour's proteges There's nothing fishy about Antoinette Poisson, name aside. Indeed, two of its founders cover their Paris flat with the selfsame 18th-century-style wallpapers they sell. Text: Valerie Lapierre 162
Visions of Byzantium David Winfield's conservation work at a 13th-century church in Turkey filled a hole in history - and revealed how Medieval muralists actually worked. Antony Eastmond reports 172
Common threads Specially commissioned ribbons snake through the Magowans'west London terrace house -a homage to former occupants, a family of Edwardian drapers. Text: Dominic Bradbury 178
Marchioness in mourning Despite its Burgundy location, the chateau of Cormatin was the height of Paris fashion in the 1620s, says Marie-France Boyer, complete with a gilded study and a chamber of curiosities 188
The making of bacon Before 1933, when he devoted himself fully to painting, Francis Bacon dabbled in interior design. Rebecca Daniels links his furniture to the framing devices of his intense artworks 200
Back at the ranch Despite its modern silhouette, basic materials built this Uruguayan loft house by the coast. Though close to upmarket resorts, it's 'more pampas than pampering', says Lee Marshall 206
A fine balance A cocktail of Edwardian and Indian flavours - neon paisleys, tented ceilings and pierced screens - whet appetites in this Jaipur bar. Henry Wilson meets its maker/shaker 216
Cream Of Caramel Lined with fine brown parcel paper, this bijou London flat, decorated by James McWhirter, comes ready gift-wrapped. It's classic Colefax, says Tim Beddow, adapted for present times 224
Vol.36,No.7,July 2016
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 10
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best napkins 13
IVY League Scallop-shell sconces and other wall lights make up Miranda Sinclair's exclusive fraternity 18
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 25
Serious Pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 28
Eye Candy Furnishings giving you the needle? Max Egger sugars the pill with embroidered fabrics 32
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 40
Address Book Suppliers in this issue 42
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 114
Exhibition diary Painters' hang-ups, Heilmann's chatty Modernism, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 116
Journal Of A Gastrophysicist Taste begins in our minds not our mouths, says experimental psychologist Charles Spence 136
Interiors
Domesday Descent One long room in a stable block on Exmoor houses the Wolseleys' ancestral relics - but, says Sophie Barling, the thriving community near at hand gives them a renewed relevance 44
Niche Appeal
With ornate doors and plaster alcoves, this Zanzibari beach house is an Arab/African blend. Add a Palestinian and a dash of Dutch to make a high-bred hybrid. Text: Tim Beddow 54
La Vie Parisienne Did Napoleon III have 'small man syndrome'? Modest though tenor Philippe Dorthe's rooms are, their air of 19th -century opera has Valerie Lapierre discerning imperial ambitions 64
Border Control In Paris, a black cornice marshals Morris-y murals and wallpapered doors... Decoratively daring, Annabel Karrim Kassar stays on the right side of the line, reckons Tim Beddow 80
Icing on the cake An Italian count will display his 20th-century art collection against Neoclassical plasterwork in a smart St James's town house. Downstairs, discovers Tim Auld, Wilde's fate was sealed 90
sandwiches and skirmishes Bohemian life in Oslo once revolved round its Grand Cafe - witness Per Krohg's fine mural in situ. There Munch and Ibsen also made a scene, as Martin Gayford reports 96
The Test Of Time Despite the cool contemporary stuff in Jamie Gray's 1905 upstate retreat, Matter's main man has kept its clapboard front and stovepipe simplicity. Text: Ana Domfnguez Siemens 104
Art & antiques
Trade secrets A Birmingham printer's scrapbook filled with engraved business cards advertises more than forgotten professions, says Alex Ramsay: the elegance of Regency penmanship 74
Vol.36,No.8,Aug.2016
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 8
Antennae Roundup : Our selection of the best hi-fi equipment 11
Books : Reading on art, architecture and design 15
Bubble & Streak : Textures, stripes and spots: Miranda Sinclair offers a hot line to the finest glassware 18
Serious Pursuits : Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 27
Green Credentials? Foliage-print fabrics are perennial favourites, so hedge your bets with Max Egger's picks 28
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 34
Address Book : Suppliers in this issue 36
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 104
Exhibition Diary : Understanding O'Keeffe, London's burning.plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 106
Journal of a gas lamp manager Some 1,300 non-electric lamps shed light on London's pavements and its past, says Iain Bell
Interiors
Touches of Amalfi A cliff-top villa on the Tyrrhenian sea counts Hollywood royalty and a glamorous ceramicist among its former residents. Cleverly restored, it's quite the production, says Ana Cardinale 38
Jung romantics For 55 years, psychotherapist Julian David has been tending to the tumbledown Devon farmhouse he bought with his new bride. Ros Byam Shaw analyses their creative urge 48
Buddy Move Fiona Lewis swapped LA's bright lights for no electricity in a dilapidated French farmhouse. Unfazed by unforeseen plot twists, the actress learned to improvise. Text: Tim Beddow 64
Whole In One : Francesco Carraro was that rare collector who only bought what he loved. His Venice rooms speak of a man for whom style and substance were one and the same, finds Sophie Barling 74
In Praise Of Folly : Created by a young baron with a vast fortune, Bedfordshire's Swiss Garden, with its fairytale cabins, is whimsy made wooden. Just don't expect anything Swiss, says Matthew Dennison 84
London Underground : David Bieda's red-brick town house stands as a symbol of Soho's history. But Leana Pooley digs out a more intimate tale of Georgian London - in the servants' hidden cesspit 94
Art & Antiques
Walls of wonder : Once part of a huge private treasury, five cabinets of creatures pinned, pickled and stuffed are now on show for all to see in Paris. Marie-France Boyer finds her curiosity piqued 58
Vol.36,No.9,Sep.2016
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 20
Antennae Roundup : Our selection of the best beds and mattresses 25
Back Story : Upholstered armchairs have a proper skeleton, says Max Egger, and you'll feel it in your bones 30
Books : Reading on art, architecture and design 41
Winning Formulas : Geometric fabrics offer order, and Miranda Sinclair shares the sum of her knowledge 48
Serious Pursuits : Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 58
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 62
Address Book : Suppliers in this issue 66
Inspiration : How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 136
Exhibition Diary : Eye and I, the eclipsing of Jeremy Moon, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 140
Journal of a Bloomsbury collector : David Herbert’s passion for the Omega set has culminated in an exhibition 164
Interiors
Liner Notes : Patrick Kinmonth and Tessa Traeger's 1930s flat is full to the gunwales with choice objects, from Poole pots to Craigie Aitchison paintings. Robin Muir likes the cut of its jib 68
Sacred Histories : Despite the best efforts of Henry VIII, a 12th-century religious settlement in Sussex lives on. For its odd corbels, buttery and inglenook hearth, Ruth Guilding gives prior approval 78
Fascinating Rhythm : In this fine-tuned Notting Hill villa, architect Tom Bartlett of Waldo Works hit just the right note for his classical music-loving clients. Bethan Ryder makes a song and dance about it 102
…And Called Them Macaronis : After World War I, Italian charcoal makers migrated to southwest France - now a local group has rekindled their tough life in the forest. Tim Beddow adds fuel to the fire 112
Basic Instinct : Plaster gargoyles, a meadow mural and a home-forged spiral staircase seem ripe for a fairy tale - but it's the family home of a noble French primitive, as Marie -France Boyer reports 126
Art & Antiques
Tempted By Innocence : Christopher Wood's subject matter may have seemed naive - bathers, boats and bedrooms -but a darkness lurked beneath. So was this interwar artist a phony? asks Charles Darwent 88
Republic In The Round : How Americans view their past has been shaped in part by Daniel Chester French, 19th-century sculptor extraordinaire. Michael Gotkin visits his studio in Massachusetts 94
Spring Fever : Paris department store, Printemps, matched graduate designers to traditional ateliers, bringing affordable pottery to the masses. Marie-France Boyer applauds its feats of clay 118
Vol.36,No.10,Oct.2016
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 42
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 91
Stamp collection The reissuing of Barron and Larcher's textiles has been delivered first class, says Jean Vacher 110
Table talk Tables to dine for? Chairman of the board Max Egger gets the deciding vote 146
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 167
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 311
Address book 314
Suppliers in this issue
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 406
Exhibition diary Lights fantastic, culture of the Cold War, the crafted book, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 410
Journal of a bench How a Gerrit Rietveld bench made it from the Dutchman's flat to Frieze... Text: Anna Brady 436
Autumn shows
Antennae roundup Miranda Sinclair chooses her highlights from this year's Decorex and Focus design shows 67
Autumn swatch It's a stick-up job! Masked crusader Max Egger goes to Gotham to air the best new wallpapers 124
Autumn fabrics Jessica Hayns and Maud Hewlings get in pole position to showthe best of Decorex and Focus 172
Special
The world of london design From Polish pompoms and Pollocky papers to a motionless ocean and an ark of the dark... We deliver a new supplement devoted to the LDF, with a map, highlights of the shows and more 227
Interiors
In Fine Feather In her Stockwell home, dressmaker Maude Smith has conceived a rus in urbe, with Charleston chintzes and hanging hops. Add bird life, and Sophie Barling is all aflutter 324
cross purposes John Minshaw's pure interior-design style -seen here in his flat near Hyde Park - is thanks in part to potters Lucie Rie and Hans Coper. But he's reinvented the wheel, says Ros Byam Shaw 334
Holy ordure Nothing is wasted in India - in Rajasthan even cattle manure is used as fuel. Watching the locals store the cowpats in decorated bitoras, Laure Verniere discusses the turd way 344
Journeys in geometry Mathematics meets the multicoloured motifs of tribal cultures in Lucas Rise's eye-popping pieces. As Ana Cardinale discovers, in his house in Argentina, solid furniture turns psychedelic 350
Bakst to the future What happened when a kooky heiress lured the Ballets Russes designer to revamp her pile in Baltimore? A dose of Russian peasant motifs with dance given a stage. Text: Carol Prisant 360
Forget me not Better known for their eponymous castle near York, the Howards also have a place in Wiltshire - one made over in subtly surprising ways by a late friend, Laura Jeffreys. Text: Ros Byam Shaw 378
Sanctum By The Spinney Flush with Tarka the Otter prize money, Henry Williamson built a writer's cabin in remotest Devon.'Mazed as a brish' to locals, he honed his naturalist's eye here, says Ruth Guilding 390
Out of this world Living in this Scottish Jacobean Revival house is like dealing with a bolshy teenager, reckon the owners. But now, as an art and sculpture park, it's maturing fast, says Christopher Simon Sykes 396
Art & antiques
The manor reborn Glaze junkie Kate Malone has been grappling with 'legout Rothschild' for a Waddesdon show. Grace McCloud chats with the ceramicist kilnside at her Islington mews house/studio 52
Magnum opus English embroidery was highly prized in the Middle Ages. Indeed, argues Sophie Barling, every cope, bishop's stocking and seal bag holds trade history and cultural riches in its stitches 136
Illuminating a legend When dealer Peter Woodward heard about a sale of Maison Charles's grand stock, he leaped on the Eurostar. That's even before a hidden cache resurfaced, says Timothy Brittain-Catlin 156
Braidy bunch Humble materials from the souk, from metallic braids and ribbons to detergent packets, adorn Francois Gilles's collection of tote bags. Look out Chanel, warns Marie-France Boyer 372
Vol.36,No.11,Nov.2016
Cover Arch Deacon - Two Piece by Richard f Deacon sits in a panel in Alex Cochrane's family home in Kensington. What else did the architect ordain? See page 110. Photograph: Simon Upton
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 22
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best wardrobes 27
Injiri time Weft with added heft is a Gujarati weaving tradition, as Grace McCloud discovers 36
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 45
Dolly mixture Put childish fabrics behind you, instructs Maud Hewlings, and adopt textured linens 54
Trim pickings
Are you a passementerie person? Max Egger is eager to promote the fringe benefits 64
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 75
Fruits of the forest Jessica Hayns sees the Milan furniture fair's finest offerings become babes in the wood 76
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 98
Address book Suppliers in this issue 100
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 170
Exhibition diary The teething of Nash, art strata, Victoria chez Napoleon, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 174
Journal of a Picasso Muse Sylvette David, now Lydia Corbett, caught the eye of the Spaniard - and her life changed 196
Interiors
A head for heights Creating a family-friendly habitat from a lofty Kensington mansion is no mean feat - happily, architect Alex Cochrane was up to the task. Elfreda Pownall applauds his vaulted ambition 110
Shell life
The very material that threatens the sea turtle's existence - plastic - is used in consciousness-raising artworks at a refuge for the reptiles in Kenya. Tim Beddow reports 120
New dogs, old tricks Three generations of an artistic family live and work together in a huge house in Scotland - but anyone looking for conflict is barking up the wrong tree, discovers Ruth Guilding 130
London bloomer Now Hackney's E5 Bakehouse has acquired 50 employees in five years, there's little left to prove. Founder Ben Mackinnon explains to Sophie Barling why he loves the daily grind 142
Eurasian steps The grand panelled entrance halls of Tbilisi's mansions reflected the cosmopolitanism of Georgian elites - and that of Stalin's doctor is no exception, learns Joseph Alexander Smith 148
The art of less In his converted coach house in Hackney, gallerist Stuart Shave has rejected 'polished minimalism' for something even less varnished. Kate Jacobs succumbs to the hard cell 162
Art & antiques
Frisian seasons In his modest living room, a Dutch milkman (with a love of jazzy ties) painted frescoes of rural life, spring through winter. Marie-France Boyer ushers them past your eyes 102
Rebel Rebels
David Bowie declared 1980s Postmodernists the Memphis Group hunky dory. As part of the musical chameleon's collection goes up for sale, Stephen Patience picks out the pin-ups 154
Vol.36,No.12,Dec.2016
Antennae Who's been inspired by designs from the ; near and distant past? asks Nathalie Wilson 28
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best archive designs 51
Books Damian Thompson's Christmas roundup 63
In with the old Jessica Hayns has plundered JVofs vaults to celebrate 35 years of distinctive decoration 72
History of the blues As we did in issue no.1, Max Egger celebrates the loveliest blue-and-white china around 82
Completely off the wall The 'art on furniture' of 1960s group Danad is being reissued. Kate Jacobs investigates 94
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 107
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 111
Address book Suppliers in this issue 116
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 204
'Exhibition diary Pasmore's passages, Islamic magic, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 208
Journal of a bottle collector Matthew Slocombe spent much of his boyhood knee-deep in Victorian cesspits...228
Interiors
Time and tide For six decades the artist Mary Fedden has lived in a little warehouse by the Thames -primitive but life-affirming, says Christopher Andreae. First published: June 2007 36
Golden treasury Leaving her flat above Colefax & Fowler, Nancy Lancaster is wistful. As she packs up her treasures, she tops up Nicholas Haslam's gin and tonic. First published: September 1982 120
United front The his 'n'hers houses that Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo commissioned in Mexico City add up to a double portrait in 3D. Text: Timothy Brittain-Catlin. First published: June 2005 126
The wood life With no heating or water, the 18th-century pine-lined house of a farming clan opens Marie-France Boyer's eyes to the hardship of rural France. First published: May 1996 132
A Prussian PompeII A Roman general on campaign was just one decorative fantasy realised by Schinkel at a princely palace in Potsdam. Text: Michael Huey. First published: December 1991 124
Electric eye Rare is the man whose passions include Baroque music, TV shopping channels and Minimalist art. Meet collector Mark R., says Sarah Howell. First published: January 1999 148
Our man in tangier Antique dealer Christopher Gibbs overlooks the Strait of Gibraltar in an atmospheric house with its own fascinating provenance. Text: Umberto Pasti. First published: March 2000 154
Cold comfort Every year near the Arctic Circle, 4,000 tons of frozen water are sculpted into the Ice Hotel. Peter Grant snuggles into his reindeer hide. First published: October 1998 160
Deco undimmed In her Paris flat, an interwar Lady Havisham preserved luxurious fittings and furniture in pristine condition - by keeping the world out. Bibi Gex reports. First published: March 1999 170
Natty tread Tackling the problem of discarded tyres that litter Tanzania, an artist has put the dead rubber to domestic use, as Daniel Dickinson discovered. First published: October 2005 176
Cast of thousands In a Paddington bedsit, plaster-cast master Peter Hone holds court in Soanean splendour. Alistair McAlpine pops by for a Mad Hatter's tea party. First published: September 1994 180
Celestial empire The exiled King Ferdinand's Chinese Palace in Palermo promoted his divine right to rule as monarchies were tumbling. Text: Lorenza Bianda Pasquinelli. First published: June 2000 186
Mid-century modified Peter Shire has jazzed up his parents' Modernist home in LA with hot hues and his own cartoonish furniture. Text: Jonathan Griffin. First published: December 2011 192
Chronicle on the common A 'very superior mongrel', Southside House has annals littered with illustrious names, from Anne Boleyn to Tsar Nicholas. Text: Dinah Hall. First published: October 1986 198
Art & antiques
Minton condition A pioneer of bone china, the Stoke firm held its earliest designs for cups and saucers in a leather pattern book. Sarah Howell cocks her pinky. First published: July/August 1989 138
Flight of imagination Having worked alongside Picasso in Vallauris, Guidette Carbonell found a niche with her mythical 'harpies'. Text: Marie-France Boyer. First published: October 2007 166
Vol.37,No.1,January 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 12
Antennae roundup : Our selection of the best decorative panels of wallpaper 15
Press freedom : The irregularities of block-print fabrics are stamped with charm, says Maude Smith 18
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 25
Chairs of the board Pull up a pew and record this minute: Max Egger announces 'four legs good' 28
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 34
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 36
Address Book Suppliers in this issue 38
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 106
Exhibition diary Pop's memory man, the muse and the admiral, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 108
Journal Of A'human Google' The New York Public Library's Matthew J. Boylan fields questions from Joe Public 128
Interiors
Gripped by the grape At most 'sleeping beauty' castles, dense foliage lies outside - but at Palazzo Sonnino in Tuscany, lush greenery appears in the rooms' 18th-century frescoes, as Marella Caracciolo reports 40
On his metal Have your minimalist cake and eat it in the Paris flat Pierre Saalburg restored for his mother - artworks hide behind black lacquer doors ready for display. Text: Valerie Lapierre 50
Thorns without a rose What if a hosepipe ban were permanent? Dry gardening disciples Arnaud Maurieres and Eric Ossart use desert plants diligently - and the former says why their ideas hold water 60
Pointed criticisms Domesticity doesn't get more high-church than George Gilbert Scott's vicarage near Offa's Dyke, lovingly restored by a fan of Gothic Revival. Helena Attlee hymns a song of praise 68
Palm trees and paw prints After his marriage to dancer Tilly Losch ended, eccentric art collector Edward James ran away from his West Sussex seat, leaving behind a Surrealist treasury. Text: Joanna Moorhead 82
Chalet in shadow Commissioned by a Jew as Mussolini rose, this holiday home in the Italian Dolomites -Mitteleuropa meets Modernism - would never become the hoped-for haven, says Lee Marshall 90
Art & antiques
Painter in a pith hat
Braving cannibals, Victorian adventurer Constance Gordon Cumming sailed to Fiji, meticulously recording the natives' material culture. Celia Lyttelton gets her pound of flesh 76
From the archive
Coming up roses The owners of Petersham Nurseries live next door in a 1680s mansion whose Neoclassical features are offset, says Amicia de Moubray, by 'cutting-edge art'. First published: April 2006 96
Vol.37,No.2,February 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 20
Antennae Roundup Our selection of the best candles 31
Side show Are occasional tables a decorative distraction? Make them the focal point, says Maude Smith 34
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 45
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 50
Capital stuff Before the snow turns to slush, take your ease in some plush... Max Egger piles on the velvet 52
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 62
Address book Suppliers in this issue 66
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 132
Exhibition diary Brangwyn looks East, earthy as Eardley, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 134
Journal of a Treasure Registrar Ian Richardson's job is to administer hoards of the general public 152
Interiors
French evolution Parisian chic through a New York lens marks the guest flat of fashion designer Lisa Perry. Her Pierre Paulin furniture makes it a memorable Manhattan transfer, says Kristiano Ang 70
Distance keepers : The life aesthetic is played out by two former V&A curators in a Wealden hall house in Suffolk. They show off their salerooms steals and fancy flypitch finds to Ruth Guilding 80
Money for jambs Trade in slaves and spices can be read in the massive wooden doors of Zanzibar's historic merchants. As Tim Beddow shows, this dying Swahili art form is not just a load of old lintels 90
Flora Alla Fiorentina With its specimens found on Darwin's Beagle voyage and the odd wax citrus of the Medici, Florence's botanical museum sows the seeds of horticultural history. Text: Alex Ramsay 96
Canaries, crystal and carnations Pretty as a parrot, fashion designer Topolina's Tangier nest is filled with Venetian mirrors, florals and funky furniture. Beautiful plumage! chirps Marie-France Boyer 106
Stone-Age Survivors Everyone from De Chirico to Jim Dine has pressed themselves on Bulla printer's, Rome's longest-standing lithography studio. Marella Caracciolo says it's inked its name in the annals 116
From the archive
Swede symmetry Urbane and rustic merge in this 18th-century summerhouse, where painted chinoiserie wallpaper hangs above untreated boards. Text: Elisabeth Seise. First published: February 1987 122
Vol.37,No.3,March 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 20
Antennae roundup Our selection from London Design Week 25
Branch lines From blue onion bowls to lily-pad plates, botanical china is growing on Maude Smith 36
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 43
Design week fabrics Jessica Hayns and Max Egger send the best new fabrics down the runway 52
'Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 69
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 78
Address book Suppliers in this issue 80
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 154
Exhibition diary Bolshevik visions, my brilliant Korea, Bell's epoch, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 158
Journal of A Sand Sculptor Calvin Seibert's mini 'monstrous carbuncles' -Brutalist sandcastles - dot New York's beaches 180
Interiors
Gypsum swing Bridget Elworthy ignored her husband's advice - to 'grass it all over and get some sheep' -turning their Oxfordshire estate into a cut-flower empire. Ruth Guilding buttonholes her 82
Picking up the thread The late Tibor Reich's Stratford home is filled with his fabrics for the royal yacht, the Festival of Britain and more. Now the pile has passed to his grandson, finds Timothy Brittain-Catlin 94
Chateau Nouveau Whiplash motifs and pharaonic imagery once mingled with Bugatti furniture amid a fug of opium in a now empty chateau near Marseille. Tim Beddow tells the tale of an heir gone bad 104
Slide show Picture Balinese gazebos transplanted to south Morocco amid fig, olive and pomegranate trees... Marc Belli's tranquil camping cabins face the Atlas mountains. Text: Valerie Lapierre 120
Capital Expenditure As the Impressionist oils, Rodin bronze and Maison Jansen tables in this apartment attest, it takes Americans in Paris to out-Frenchify the French. Zut alors! cries Loreto Lopez-Quesada 128
Test of friendship Peggy Angus lived a rich life in impoverished circumstances. At her Sussex cottage, Ravilious et al mucked in, making midsummer magical. Text: Olive Cook. First published: March 1985 138
Talent to a mews Her circle includes Lucie Rie and Edmund de Waal, so it's no wonder the flat of Egg founder Maureen Doherty has a quiet purity. Timothy Brittain-Catlin basks in its lustre 146
Art & antiques
Blasts from the past From Vesuvius to Krakatoa, volcanoes have been a source of human awe for centuries, as an exhibition at the Bodleian demonstrates. Mr lava man, Stephen Patience, goes with the flow 72
Animal, vegetable, mineral? Two faience factories in northeast France turned faux food into an 18th-century art. On a diet of bogus boar's heads and sham cabbages, Marie-France Boyer has been feasting her eyes 112
Vol.37,No.4,April 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 42
Matched and mixed Is perfect pitch in colour a thing? Paint-maker Francesca Wezel's got it, thinks Grace McCloud 52
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best fireplace products 65
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 83
Palace revolution Milan's finest furniture oozes class in a noble setting. Jessica Hayns excludes the lower orders 106
Net assets See-through fabrics, from voiles to lace, will get your neighbours twitching, says Maude Smith 142
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 155
Across the boards Carpets, kilims and rugs of this quality are good for the soles, concludes Max Egger 160
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 174
Address book Suppliers in this issue 180
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 258
Exhibition diary Altar egos, Hodgkin's people, sound in the suburbs, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 262
Journal Of An Antique Bed Restorer Ian Coulson had to pinch himself on finding a treasure hidden in plain sight 284
Interiors
Welsh assemblage As head of Colefax & Fowler's antique department, Roger Jones knows a thing or two about combining objects, as his Welsh rectory - and this self-penned article - attests.190
Half board? Brussels' Jam Hotel, with its Cubist collages and Constructivist reliefs, proves that story-driven interiors are the preserve of Belgian bad boy Lionel Jadot. Text: Valerie Lapierre 202
Saline solution The Jubilee Pool of 1937 is a boon for the people of Penzance and a bulwark against southwesterly storms. Ruth Guilding learns of the practical functions fulfilled by maritime Modernism 218
Fung Shui Order reigns in the London studio - once a mechanic's garage - shared by Spencer Fung and Teresa Roviras. Marcus Field explores the what, why and Tao of nature-inspired design 224
Multicolour dream coats In this Georgian seaside weekend home, a glossy black hallway gives hardly a hint of the chinoiserie shades and Baroque cocktail beyond, as Ros Byam Shaw discovers 232
Turning the tide This Rococo shell house in County Kildare is so hallucinatory that one accepts its ghostly 18th-century Chinese statue without murmur. It's well worth a trip, reckons Sophie Barling 242
Silent partners Alexandre Hollan has painted the same trees and utilitarian objects for 30 years. The ascetic Hungarian in Provence has twigged something about art, reckons Catherine de Montalembert 250
Art & Antiques
Raj against the machine John Lockward Kipling, the author's father, was an 'old India hand', but fought to preserve the subcontinent's craft traditions from coarse Western copies, as Stephen Calloway recounts 70
Feathers, fur and flowers Braquenie's rugs have graced the Vatican, the Dolmabahce Palace and Louis XVI's bedroom. Its specially appointed archivist sees a'never-ending cycle' of design. Text: Elfreda Pownall 132
From the archive
Life on the nile Hugh Sowden's impossibly romantic cottage complex near Cairo is a short walk through the desert from the Saqqara pyramids, learns Olivia Temple. First published: September 2003 210
Vol.37,No.5,May 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 16
Antennae roundup : Our selection of the best modern lamps 21
The hammer of yore Choreographer turned coppersmith Michael Johnson is into heavy metal, says Ruth Guilding 24
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 29
Grand nationals From chintzes to ikats, Jessica Hayns goes round the world seeking exotic fabrics 38
Serious pursuits : Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 49
Candy's dandy : Passementerie appeals to sophisticates with sweet tooths, says soft-centred Maude Smith 54
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 157
Address book Suppliers in this issue 158
Inspiration : How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 232
Exhibition diary Gay display, Sime's time, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 236
Journal of a historical gastronomist Sarah Lohman relives old recipes in the belly of America's past 256
Special
The world of kitchens and bathrooms Dalf the delicious meets an old Dutch kitchen and a Roman bath that Caligula would kill for. From pomegranate soap to polished marble, feather dusters to fitted kitchens - see what's bubbling to the surface 65
Interiors
Manor on the marshDesmond MacCarthy, of BBC2's Normal for Norfolk fame, has had to be creative to keep his Jacobean estate Wiveton afloat. Cafes and film crews have been crucial, learns Ruth Guilding 162
Waves goodbye With its portholes and rippling ceiling - even a shoal of porcelain fish - the Selbys' Uruguayan beach house has a salty tang. So why does it turn its back on the sea? asks Ros Byam Shaw 174
League over nations Apprentices of the Hanseatic League in Bergen, Norway, had to sign over their lives to the god of money - and their notorious initiation rite was a diabolical test, as Laura Freeman reports 190
Fired with a passion : Potter Pierre Culot converted an 18th-century farmhouse outside Brussels, whose purity reflects the Japanese mingei tradition. Now his son carries the torch, says Amy Sherlock 206
A flair to remember : Everyone from the Queen Mother to Pablo Picasso was intimate with artist/editor Fleur Cowles. Discretion was guaranteed at her Albany set parties, as Revel Guest recalls 214
Art and antiques
Magic markers The handmade shop signs in 19th-century Japan, indicating what's inside, were often as cryptic as crossword clues. Keen consumer Augusta Pownall has cracked the (bar)code 184
Souls, inside silhouettes Indian artist Hormazd Narielwalla turns tailor's patterns and other fashion ephemera into prints. At his Whitechapel studio, Charlotte Edwards says his work's a cut above 198
From the archive
Menage and menagerie
In a traditional farm in the Moroccan High Atlas, man and beast live in close communion. Marie-France Boyer joins them for couscous. First published: December 2011 224
Vol.37,No.6,June 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 16
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best bed linen 21
Elements of style : Metal furniture has the glamour to steal the show, says Max Egger, who shows the steel.. 28
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 37
Rolling back the years Historic wallpapers unfurl the flavours of past times. Maude Smith delivers her roll call 52
Art and antiques guide Lots to see! Hoover up carpets in art, boost your interest rates with Keynes's college rooms, and screen top printers in an old film factory. We also parade the Venice Biennale pavilions and list the international season's fairs 65
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 143
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 154
Address book Suppliers in this issue 158
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 234
Exhibition diary Hokusai's hovel, Scotch snappers, Futurist as dandy, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 238
Journal of a 360 photographer Fabienne Jung makes historic and hard-to-access interiors available to online audiences 260
Interiors
The real Macaw Decorator Nicolb Castellini Baldissera channels the spirit of Matisse in his Tangier home, replete with rich colours and antique fabrics, as Marie-France Boyer reports 174
All that glisters In the Palladian Croome Court, a Dutch artist has installed a golden box displaying the Sixth Earl's collection of porcelain. Matthew Dennison is awestruck by Rococo alchemy 186
Particles of virtu : The intact Powys studio of Australian painter Sidney Nolan - complete with mercury lamp and paint-encrusted binoculars - offers clues to his working practice, says Rebecca Daniels 192
Double or quits In a former hardware depot in west London, painter Paul Huxley and curator Susie Allen have created a sprawling home/studio complex. Charlotte Edwards does the measuring-up 200
End of the line : With its wagon-wheel light, vintage groceries and zinc chill cabinets, this bar-cum-general store preserves rural Argentina in aspic. Isabel de Estrada sips gin with some local farmers 210
Ground zero? Proving that pictures look grand against (her own) wallpaper, designer Jennifer Shorto has filled her flat with the signs of a much travelled life. Marie-France Boyer finds her on a roll 216
The sky with limits Provence was a haven for Jews in the Middle Ages, and the synagogue in Carpentras -beautified in the 18th century - testifies to a hard-won survival. Text: Oliver Maclennan 226
From the archive
A bitter glitter Exiled from court in 1665 for slander, Roger de Bussy-Rabutin poured his anguish into the decor of his Burgundy chateau. Marie-France Boyer takes a gilt trip. First published: May 1994 162
Vol.37,No.7,July 2017
Antennae : What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 12
Antennae roundup : Our selection of the best eggcups 15
Setting pretty Prepared to fork out for cutlery? Then allow Maude Smith to spoon-feed you 18
Books Reading on art, architecture and design 25
Primary school You can have any colour fabric you like, says Max Egger, as long as it's red, blue or yellow 30
Serious pursuits Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 36
Network Merchandise and events worldwide 40
Address book Suppliers in this issue 42
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 114
Exhibition diary Melancholy Minton, the ultimatebonnie wee laddy, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 116
Journal of an architectural campaigner Catherine Croft, of the Twentieth Century Society, on building consensus...136
Interiors
Sitting portraits At Michigan's Cranbrook Academy, jeweller Iris Eichenberg has enriched her flat with ethnic rugs and midcentury chairs - Saarinen's interior is the perfect foil, says Carol Prisant 44
Lightbulb moment As Austrian glassware manufacturer Lobmeyr approaches its bicentenary, Michael Huey discovers how electrifying chandeliers for the emperor's ball modernised the Viennese whirl 54
Like Father Like Son Patmos attracts a well-heeled creative set, but the best houses - like this sea captain's villa -rely on deep local knowledge to do them up. Seek Greeks bearing gifts, says Tim Beddow 72
A taste of madeleine In a Normandy fisherman's cottage, an editor and a postwar antique dealer have concocted a Proustian fantasy, a piquant 'memory' of times not actually passed. Text: Valerie Lapierre 88
Sacred mysteries Mayan and Hispanic cultures collide in a 17th-century church in Mexico, one replete with strange symbols. Is this how invaders wooed indigenes? asks Timothy Brittain-Catlin 96
Baroque steady Serial house collectors Nicholas Alvis Vega and Liza Bruce have bagged a Grade I beauty, and, reckons Elfreda Pownall, subverted the countryside code with their naughty city ways 104
Art & antiques
The making of hay Why has the shop that stocked Enid Marx textiles, Bawden wallpapers and Ravilious designs slipped into obscurity? Ruth Guilding pulls up the blinds of a Mayfair emporium 82
From the archive
Sylvan Smiths Three generations of a green-fingered family have lovingly maintained a Gertrude Jekyll garden in Surrey. Annabel Freyberg dived into its dappled groves. First published : June 1993 64
Vol.37,No.8,August 2017
Antennae What's new in style, decoration and design, chosen by Nathalie Wilson 12
Antennae roundup Our selection of the best bins and baskets 15
Blind ambition Fabrics printed with large-scale patterns are Maude Smith's frame of reference 18
Books : Reading on art, architecture and design 25
Serious pursuits : Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities 29
Pull some shapes : From 'tree trunks' to tulipieres, Max Egger has ways to display your sprays and nosegays 30
Address Book Suppliers in this issue 35
Network : Merchandise and events worldwide 36
Inspiration How to recreate some of the design effects in this issue, by Augusta Pownall 104
Exhibition Diary Marks of the masters, art of Black Power, plus Charlotte Edwards's listings 106
Journal of a dementia researcher What links art appreciation and social interaction? asks Janneke van Leeuwen 124
Interiors
Goan with a flow Ventilation is all in this 17th-century colonial mansion, as its fretwork panels, multiple doorways and oyster-shell windows attest. Ros Byam Shaw encounters the air apparent 38
Advice and virtueThanks in part to a before/after magazine feature on her then new Oxfordshire home, Magdalen Jebb would become a fabric firm's creative director. Elfreda Pownall hears how 56
All the tea in China
Scion of a New York banking dynasty, Lady X likes her things to have a provenance too, whether antique wallpaper or Cecil B. de Milk's casting couch. John Heilpern reports 74
Pleasure principles
Erwin Broner brought the Bauhaus (and some A-list artists) to Ibiza. The island vernacular fused with Corbusian cool in his own 1950s seaside villa, learns Catherine de Montalembert 86
Remains attraction
Retired journalist Jonathan Dawson bought a crumbling cliffhanger of a place near Tangier. Amid 'pesky' free-range hens and flea-market finds, he recounts what happened next... 94
Art & antiques
The silo witness
Marcus Jefferies reimagines the sort of lonely structures - from water towers to electricity substations - overlooked by us all. Jane Stacey visits his studio on the Somerset Levels 66
From the archive
Steward of the stuarts
Immortalised in Peter Greenaway's film The Draughtsman's Contract, Groombridge Place is a Caroline time capsule, says Mirabel Cecil. First published: July/August 1983 46
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