The rental market represents a substantial target market for designers, and creative minds are rising to the challenge
At the neo-Georgian mansion, the cereal heiress and entrepreneur served frozen food on Sèvres porcelain to a stream of guests — and her spirit lives on
Designer-makers are upping the ante on traditional lathe-fabricated forms
Gabrielle Greiss’s farmhouse in rural France creates the perfect backdrop for her fantastical pieces
The French concept store that’s leading the pack
A grand Georgian town house — The Spectator’s former offices — is a riot of bold-patterned wallpaper that calls to mind Arts and Crafts, the Bloomsbury Group and Wiener Werkstätte
She may be known for subtle shades, but her new paint range has surprisingly vibrant depths
An engine designing delftware from an online prompt is one way the technology can leverage the past to create the new
A new collection of homewares with Collagerie draws on centuries of style in the British department store’s heritage centre
For the Belgian artist and sculptor, life begins in the garden
As designers look to the past for inspiration, embracing more partitioned plans, could the vogue for exposed cooking spaces be turning a corner?
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
Matilda Goad wants to put the desirable in DIY
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
The curator loves minimalism, the Brazilian modernists and her home in the Mantiqueira Mountains
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
A ruined chapel perched above the Bay of Naples became the Roman-style fantasy home of the eccentric Swedish doctor and writer Axel Munthe
Design is taking a geometry lesson
Historians are piecing together the trajectories of the French Huguenots, eastern European Jews and Bangladeshis who found refuge in Spitalfields — and finally opening the doors to a museum reflecting on immigration
The antithesis of the WFH Modernist box, these retreats are a return to the wonkily handmade, the lyrical and the eccentric
The sci-fi show is deliciously dark, but its Japanese architecture and design are rays of inspiration
Cultivate them in a box kit and fry them up. But the real magic is in their sculptural, surreal and slightly creepy beauty
