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Nice people renovate, nasty people imitate — architect Ben Pentreath on the trend for McMansions
Meet the dealer in reclaimed items who likes to put the shabby into shabby chic
Ahead of Masterpiece London, the pre-eminent dealer of his generation talks about the thrill of discovery
Interior decorator to the great and the good, Robert Kime’s taste is changeless, timeless and unlike anything else
Ben Pentreath, architectural designer to royalty, has a new husband with very different ideas about interiors
The photographer’s images of the privileged and fashionable in their homes and gardens chronicled a vanishing world
My first boss forbade the use of a first-class stamp except in the case of exceptional emergency
Coed Darcy village is more ambitious than The Prince of Wales’s scheme at Poundbury – and has international significance
‘Having two houses is what keeps me grounded. It’s a tradition that extends back as far as Pliny’s villas of ancient Rome’
‘It has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with culture, emotion and family’
Architectural and urban designer Ben Pentreath talks about why he has no desire to buy his own home
For 20 years, the Prince of Wales’s housing scheme in Dorset has led the way on green energy and social housing
