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  • Friday, 4 August, 2017
    Architecture
    Why do horrid people build neo-Georgian homes?

    Nice people renovate, nasty people imitate — architect Ben Pentreath on the trend for McMansions

  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2017
    Life & Arts
    Little black book: Adrian Amos, salvage expert

    Meet the dealer in reclaimed items who likes to put the shabby into shabby chic

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2016
    House & Home
    The thrill of the chaise

    Ahead of Masterpiece London, the pre-eminent dealer of his generation talks about the thrill of discovery

  • Friday, 25 September, 2015
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Robert Kime’s stately pleasure domes

    Interior decorator to the great and the good, Robert Kime’s taste is changeless, timeless and unlike anything else

  • Friday, 13 February, 2015
    House & Home
    How marriage changed designer’s view of his own home

    Ben Pentreath, architectural designer to royalty, has a new husband with very different ideas about interiors

  • Friday, 17 October, 2014
    Life & Arts
    Horst P Horst: snapshots of a vanishing world

    The photographer’s images of the privileged and fashionable in their homes and gardens chronicled a vanishing world

  • Friday, 25 July, 2014
    House & Home
    Ben Pentreath: why fast does not mean quicker

    My first boss forbade the use of a first-class stamp except in the case of exceptional emergency

  • Friday, 27 June, 2014
    Life & Arts
    Royal vision refined at polluted oil plant

    Coed Darcy village is more ambitious than The Prince of Wales’s scheme at Poundbury – and has international significance

  • Friday, 28 February, 2014
    Life & Arts
    Why I need two homes

    ‘Having two houses is what keeps me grounded. It’s a tradition that extends back as far as Pliny’s villas of ancient Rome’

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  • Friday, 14 February, 2014
    UK house prices
    To rent or to buy?

    ‘It has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with culture, emotion and family’

  • Friday, 31 January, 2014
    House & Home
    Best of 2014 - Why I rent and would never buy

    Architectural and urban designer Ben Pentreath talks about why he has no desire to buy his own home

  • Friday, 1 November, 2013
    Life & Arts
    Poundbury: A chocolate box with bite

    For 20 years, the Prince of Wales’s housing scheme in Dorset has led the way on green energy and social housing

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