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  • Friday, 1 May, 2020
    Interiors
    Let’s stop turning our homes into boutique hotels

    Coronavirus puts into perspective the cult of perfection in interior design

  • Friday, 4 August, 2017
    Life & Arts
    Why do so many horrible people want to build neo-Georgian houses?

    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
    Life & Arts
    Antique dealer Edward Hurst and the art of finding treasures

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

  • Friday, 25 September, 2015
    Life & Arts
    The anti-style interiors of designer Robert Kime

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

  • Friday, 13 February, 2015
    Life & Arts
    How marriage changed designer’s view of his own home decor

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

  • Friday, 17 October, 2014
    Life & Arts
    How Horst P Horst captured the inside world of the rich and famous

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

  • Friday, 25 July, 2014
    Life & Arts
    Why building a house today is no quicker than in the 18th century

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

  • Friday, 27 June, 2014
    Life & Arts
    How a polluted oil plant in Wales became a model housing project

    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 would rather rent two homes than buy one of my own

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

  • Friday, 14 February, 2014
    Life & Arts
    Why I would rather own a home than rent one

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

  • Friday, 31 January, 2014
    Life & Arts
    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
    How the Poundbury project became a model for innovation

    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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