A postcard of a Raoul Dufy painting offers a window from the city to an imagined coast that ‘radiates a promise of bliss’
Flexible working and concerns over cladding drive buyers towards other property types
As designers look to the past for inspiration, embracing more partitioned plans, could the vogue for exposed cooking spaces be turning a corner?
Dispensing with the perfect life pretence of a rushed clear-up makes for better social events, better friendships and a better life
Anders Kornestedt designed his coastal retreat to make looking for birds a seamless proposition. His tally is 275 species, one of the highest in Sweden
With prices 15% to 20% below prime ‘Couttswolds’ territory, this overlooked corner of the English region is enticing a new crowd
The excesses of fast fashion are well publicised, but those of the interiors industry are less scrutinised. A new cohort of creatives is challenging this
The boyhood home of the broodingly realist painter of American life
Urban green spaces are oases of serenity amid tumult — and needed more than ever
Bike locks, robo handles, dash cams... and more top security tech
From a 15-acre wine estate on Lake Iseo to a penthouse apartment in central Milan
Matilda Goad wants to put the desirable in DIY
As the capital sees an exodus of priced-out incomers, critics say these ‘interlopers’ have no right to complain
The self-taught maker uses nothing but her bare hands to wrestle bulrushes into everything from floor matting to suits of armour
From big bold tableware to the brightest bedlinen — joyful ‘back to school’ fixes to banish the seasonal blues
Cool conditions have set the scene for stupendous displays of crocosmia, hydrangea and phlox
Forensic and historical analysts are increasingly being dispatched to listed properties to debunk myths — and uncover new secrets
The curator loves minimalism, the Brazilian modernists and her home in the Mantiqueira Mountains
Life, work and contemporary art come together in Nicolas Mazet and Kate Davis’s sensitive renovation of an 18th-century manor house
Shopfronts, museums and even chemists’ doorways are surrendering to an invasion of faux flowers that defy the seasons. Will nothing be spared?
A Swiss couple with an idiosyncratic approach to the built environment believe their new venture Poeticwalls will bring vim to the property world
Design’s hottest trend? Getting rough around the edges
Donald Judd strictly distinguished his sculptures from his furniture designs. The difference, now, is only in the price tag
The scaled-down models, aviaries and doll’s houses are the highlight at Homo Faber, the Luca Guadagnino art-directed craft fair opening this weekend
A ruined chapel perched above the Bay of Naples became the Roman-style fantasy home of the eccentric Swedish doctor and writer Axel Munthe
