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Whether repairing antiques for a museum or refashioning a discarded piece yourself, there’s a story to be found in the stuffing
Colour is used by architects and designers for many reasons but can the psychology behind it help you sort out your own interior dilemmas?
Save the date with more than just a card
From a lakefront home with a double-occupancy boathouse to a Chicago town house with top-floor terrace
As the work-from-home bubble bursts, Londoners who bought out of town during the pandemic are finding selling up a slow business
At RHS’s inaugural urban gardening show in Manchester, flat dwellers and renters can learn how to make a verdant refuge
The Italian design extravaganza is under way. What are the talking points?
Pritzker Prize-winner Jean Nouvel is better known for his unpredictable and often spectacular public realm buildings
‘I felt tired of a particular dark, brooding portrait, and my mood lifted after I replaced it with a brighter still life’
Long overlooked for harder metals, this ancient alloy is now stealing the show
Make your bed a sleeping beauty
These enclosed spaces, popular during the 18th and 19th centuries, are once again being used by large estates to cultivate homegrown fruit and vegetables
The cocooning, pliable and renewable material is increasingly embraced by designers and architects
The co-founder of the Berlin Secession used his summer house garden as an experimental palette for his Impressionist works
Plant summer and autumn-flowering bulbs now and reap the pleasure in the months to come
I have a problem — I can spend up to 10 hours a day on portals such as Rightmove and Zillow. Even my psychoanalyst can’t help
As the UK’s Design Council celebrates its 80th anniversary, how do its utopian ideals hold up in an age of fast consumerism and eco-principles?
The interior designer loves ironed sheets, Yohji Yamamoto and Temo, his Mexican chihuahua
As sizes relentlessly grow — some to Airbus scale — owners face a shortage of spots in the world’s pleasure zones large enough to berth them
Because your tableware should be a talking point
The designer has collaborated with Frette on a new bedding line. It’s uniformly brilliant
From a characterful Victorian house in the spa town of Buxton to a Grade II-listed house with an orangery overlooking the hills
This gloriously louche staple is perpetually on the verge of a comeback
A rare glimpse inside the porcelain manufacturer making up to 8,000 pieces every day
The kitschy maximalism and femininity of the architecturally ambiguous residence feel like extensions of the homemaker herself
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