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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      City Living Special
      The British Ceramics Biennial — not just about pots

      The festival is pushing boundaries and re-energising the traditional ceramics centre of Stoke-on-Trent

      A ceramic-tiled car parked outdoors
    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      HTSI
      The print, power and politics of Mandy El-Sayegh

      Inside ‘the mess’ that has inspired a triple bill of solo exhibitions

      Mandy El-Sayegh in her studio, surrounded by works in progress
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      HTSI
      Paris’s best silverware gets a polish

      Christofle’s collaboration with jewellery designer Aurélie Bidermann marks the renaissance of the French tableware brand once beloved of the Empress Eugénie

      Pieces from the Christofle Babylone collection created by designer Aurélie Bidermann
    • Saturday, 5 August, 2023
      The Aesthete
      Illustrator Fee Greening: ‘I have delusions of grandeur about paper’

      The artist shares her love for wild women, woodland flowers and cold beer

      Fee Greening at home with her dog Patti. She wears a custom-made Spirit suit by Realms
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      How To Spend It In...
      Broadcaster Gemma Cairney’s guide to Edinburgh

      The radio presenter, author and chair of the Edinburgh Art Festival on ceilidhs, swimming and vintage shopping in the Scottish capital

      Gemma Cairney at Jupiter Artland near Edinburgh
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      The Aesthete
      Architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen talks taste

      The Antwerp-based minimalist on dachshunds, detox and the dandy who became his style icon

      The world of architect/designer Vincent Van Duysen in his living room in his Antwerp home
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      HTSI
      The transatlantic design duo making furniture for the stars

      Robert Stilin and Simon Stewart create one-off pieces for an A-list clientele

      Robert Stilin (left) and Simon Stewart at Stilin’s apartment in Brooklyn, New York
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      Interiors
      North American Pavilion, London: ‘A more tender approach to design’

      This short show brings together eight of the continent’s newer galleries that champion work from ‘outside the canon’

    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      London’s summer art scene
      London’s summer auctions major on portraits old and new

      From Gustav Klimt to Elizabeth Peyton, pictures of people are some of the hottest lots

    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      House & Home
      Art Nouveau’s golden hour: a year-long architecture festival in Brussels

      The events aim to both revive appreciation of the aesthetic movement — and explore its darker backstory

      The entryway of the ‘otherworldly’ Maison Hannon, which has recently opened as a museum
    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      HTSI
      The landscape architect, the nuns, and the forest of the future

      Enzo Enea’s friendship with his Cistercian landladies has helped establish a Swiss ‘Tree Museum’ – and inspired an installation at this year’s Art Basel

      Enzo Enea with Sister Andrea and Abbess Monika at Kloster Mariazell
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      HTSI
      The cosmic heirs of Hilma af Klint

      The spiritual Swedish painter is being channelled by a constellation of contemporary artists

      Infinite Regress CLXXXVIII, 2021, by Eamon Ore-Giron
    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      HTSI
      The 20 best bakeries in the UK

      Our guide to the most delicious breads in Britain 

      A country loaf from Hamblin Bread in Oxford
    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      HTSI
      Nathalie du Pasquier reignites the Memphis fire

      A founding member of the 1980s design movement is sending collectors wild

      Untitled, 2021, by Nathalie du Pasquier
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      House & Home
      The gloopy, the bulky and the ugly — and you thought ceramics were delicate?

      Meet the artisans whose work explores the beauty in imperfection

      ceramicist painting his work
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      FT SeriesHTSI spring design special 2023
      Design star Harry Nuriev on his ‘inappropriate’ style

      The furniture designer, artist and architect talks taste 

      Nuriev at home in Paris
    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      HTSI
      Rugs so good you won’t want to walk on them

      The most astonishing artisanal artworks can now be found beneath your feet

      Nordic Knots wool Grand By Garance rugs in Moss, Leo and Dusty White, £895 each
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      HTSI
      How to hide your widescreen TV

      Interiors experts share their elegant solutions to an age-old conundrum

      A Hutley & Humm cabinet above the fireplace in a London home
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      How To Spend It In...
      An architect’s guide to Toronto

      Brigitte Shim on the buildings, bakeries and walkways of Ontario’s capital

      The spiral staircase designed by Frank Gehry at the Art Gallery of Ontario
    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      HTSI
      The wonder of woodcuts

      How an ancient print technique got its contemporary cool back

      Waiting for Time, 2016, edition of 10, by Tom Hammick, £21,600
    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      The Aesthete
      ‘I love name-dropping’: Michael Chow

      The legendary restaurateur and artist on ‘trade dressing’, sea moss and the importance of a good pee

      Michael Chow at home in Los Angeles, with (left) Blue One Breath, from his One Breath series, and (right) Mona Lisa by Gus Van Sant
    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      HTSI
      The who’s who of art advisers

      Every major collector has one. But do they have the right one? Here are the names who are most in demand

      Untitled XXI, 1976, by Willem de Kooning
    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      HTSI
      Luella Bartley unmasked

      Since the death of her son Kip, the British fashion designer has channelled her emotions into artworks that are powerfully raw. It’s all part of a desperate longing to be honest about who we are

      Luella Bartley in her studio with her lurcher Prince
    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      HTSI
      Why the CoBrA art movement still has bite

      Seventy-five years since being founded, the rebel collective is enlisting a new army of fans

      Untitled, 1974, by Karel Appel – being offered by Gallery Delaive at BRAFA from 29 January
    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      HTSI
      Art’s nude awakening

      The female artists redrawing the form 

      Two Reclining Women, 2020, by Zandile Tshabalala
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