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The annual Salone del Mobile is a vast display of slick superfluousness but at its heart is a deep regard for tradition and craftsmanship
Colour is used by architects and designers for many reasons but can the psychology behind it help you sort out your own interior dilemmas?
This modest farm labourers’ cottage in New York was where the master of the macabre wrote his final works
With the right approach it’s possible to respect a home’s historical features while introducing modern furnishings
The possibilities have multiplied recently for gardens in tight spaces, from pots to patios, buckets to balconies
Like the sham couple of the rebooted spy drama, our writer has fallen for the beautifully decked out West Village pad
As the work-from-home bubble bursts, Londoners who bought out of town during the pandemic are finding selling up a slow business
Whether repairing antiques for a museum or refashioning a discarded piece yourself, there’s a story to be found in the stuffing
From a lakefront home with a double-occupancy boathouse to a Chicago town house with top-floor terrace
At RHS’s inaugural urban gardening show in Manchester, flat dwellers and renters can learn how to make a verdant refuge
‘I felt tired of a particular dark, brooding portrait, and my mood lifted after I replaced it with a brighter still life’
Pritzker Prize-winner Jean Nouvel is better known for his unpredictable and often spectacular public realm buildings
My coffee machine looks amazing. For £3,000, it should do
What do you plant for a poet? The novelist describes creating her garden against time
Maybourne’s latest addition is everything a London hotel isn’t. And it’s all the better for it
When Lord and Lady Barnard became custodians of the ancestral seat in 2016, they inherited a fairytale – and a project in urgent need of help
Save the date with more than just a card
The Italian design extravaganza is under way. What are the talking points?
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
New York’s only skyscraper outside Manhattan is to be auctioned after falling victim to soaring interest rates
The beachfront Florida residence owes its existence to the fortune made from producing Coke bottles — and uses glass from the same factory for its 32-foot tall windows
The beauty of an age-old craft is being reimagined in contemporary designs
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