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From The Editor
I know we’re meant to start the year off with a spring in our step but I tend to use this month to ease myself in gently. I want extra blankets, extra throws, extra nights in hunkering down with my dogs on the sofa. After all the entertaining of the
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GLOBAL BRAND DIRECTOR AND GROUP EDITOR IN CHIEF Sarah Spiteri EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jessica Cumberbatch-Anderson EXECUTIVE EDITOR Pip Rich DEPUTY EDITOR (PRINT) Ellen Finch EDITOR (DIGITAL) Hugh Metcalf CREATIVE DIRECTOR Emma Williams SENIOR ART EDITOR Emi
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News & views
It seems New York interior designer Giancarlo Valle is the name on everyone’s lips right now – we feel like we’re seeing his work everywhere. It goes without saying that we’re big fans of his rich, layered and playful aesthetic – so we’re excited to
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In Good Time
It feels, quite literally, like everyone’s been talking about ClockClock 24 Dada Blue, the mesmerising project between Kit Kemp Design Studio and Stockholm-based Humans Since 1982. Both kinetic sculpture and wall clock, it has hands that align every
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Elevated Style
Over the years, various highstreet brands have had moments where their home offerings are so strong that designers and stylists all flock there. Zara, H&M and M&S have taken it in turns. But now is the surprise domination of Oliver Bonas, a chain who
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All In Hand
it’s very easy to read the word ‘handmade’ and assume that somewhere a hand is pressing a button on a machine, but on a recent tour of Mosaic Factory’s workshop in Tangier I was blown away by just how handmade every tile truly was. Concrete tiles wer
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Squashy Furniture
FEATURE RODDY CLARKE PHOTOGRAPHS (PUMP IT UP) MAISON JOSEPH■
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Country And Western
FEATURE AMY NEASON PHOTOGRAPHS (CHLOÉ) YANSHAN ZHANG/GETTY IMAGES■
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Don’t Move, Improve… Yourself
By Liv Wallers, co-founder of Yellow London a home can make you happy in so many different ways. From the colour choices to the way you group your personal artefacts, you can tell a story, draw your eye and boost your mood through decor. My co-founde
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Take A Seat
That designer Niccolò Devetag’s chair was inspired by its namesake leaf makes sense, given he was creating it for Porada. As a brand known for its woodworking tradition, where else to draw inspiration from but the natural world? The Ginkgo chair has
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Meet The Maker
Pip Rich I wanted to ask you about your approach to craft. In design right now, we’re seeing more and more contemporary rooms feature vintage products and I know you’ve always been drawn to working directly with makers. Do you think there is a simila
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Houses
We love how playful interiors are right now – it feels like a response to the minimalism of recent years, or, perhaps, of the heavy nature of the news cycle and our desire to create homes that feel happy, uplifting and safe as a result. This month’s
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Nature Study
located in a densely forested national park made up oflow-lying mountains and lush valleys, this mid-century-inspired home serves as a tranquil haven for its owners and is just an hour’s drive from Melbourne. The house, which occupies a hillside plot
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Colour BY NUMBERS
two full years – all documented on Instagram – that is the time it took Marine Koprivnjak and Victor Chabaud to transform a run-down townhouse in the southern France region of the Luberon into their happiness-inducing, colour-saturated home. They fou
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The Great Escape
‘He told me not to think about anything else.’ What’s more, Mati only wanted eight ‘very big’ suites, Carmen adds – even though the vast space could have fitted in many more smaller bedrooms. Holiday homes don’t get much more sophisticated than this:
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Lift The Spirits
it’s perhaps not surprising that a large bar in a welcoming shade of terracotta tile takes centre stage in this Mexico City home. It is, after all, called Casa Mezcal, named after the traditional local tequila, distilled from a specific species of ag
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PLAY house
Monica Adair and Stephen Kopp, co-founders of Acre Architects, based in Canada’s New Brunswick, designed this house and live here with their two sons, Hugo Kingston, 12, and Valentino Orion, nine. The ground floor has an open-plan living room, dining
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Art & soul
santa Fe, New Mexico, has an other-worldly beauty. Surrounded by mountains and desert, its downtown is characterised by adobe buildings in abstract cubist shapes, dotting the skyline like giant anthills. ‘We often say Santa Fe is baked out of the sun
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Decoratin
We’re talking all things upholstery over on page 98, so we thought we’d kick things off with Samuel & Sons’ latest charming collection, Kaleidoscope – a celebration of the pure joy of passementerie. This vignette advocates for a maximalist approach t
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Colour Decoded
Well, this is a struggle. Where to look first? What most deserves the attention – the glowing gold cabinet? The low-but-statementmaking purple-y dark red storage? The touch-me-touch-me velvet of the pale red chair? The subtle textures and alluring ma
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Lounge Around
(IN NEUTRAL) ANSON SMART STYLING JACK MILENKOVIC/ATELIER LAB■
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Sourcebook
Hot new French brand Laclaux’s exclusive range for Invisible Collection embodies all the things we want from our furniture. Made up of playful shapes, natural materials, a rich palette of warm woods, sunset reds, pale pinks and complementary neutrals
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Little Black Book: Bookshelves
This brand offers different options for block shelving. The Veliero bookcase, with its glass shelves and steel rods, is sculptural but light while the Nuage (1) by Charlotte Perriand, with its mix of shelves and cabinets, is a little more unconventio
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Style Essay: A Room Of One’s Own
A perfect version of any room should see it being multifunctional, and nowhere is that more true than a living room. It needs to be able to work as an intimate, private and personal space while also being the place you have your friends over to, with
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The Edit: Sofas
Comfy, casual and roomy, these relaxed picks offer a seat for everyone and the dog A variety of gorgeous designs that will be the life of the party Compact loveseats, two-seaters and sofa beds to help maximise the space you have
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The Edit: Coffee Table Styling
Have some fun with a mix of marquetry, rattan and bold colours and shapes Make a cool metal table your starting point and soften the stark palette with curves and waves An upholstered coffee table in a pastel hue makes the perfect base for mix-and-ma
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Buying Guide: Carpets
First, you need to decide what size carpet would suit the space, and also what shape. We always recommend going big! It provides a comfortable, more luxurious effect and also quietens the room – the carpet absorbs sound and echo. We can make any carp
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On The Rise: Lighting Designers
The main focus of Chiswick-based lighting design studio Findere is the curation of delicate and softly crinkled-looking lamps and pendant lights. The brand takes its name from Middle English and means ‘one who finds, attains knowledge or invents’. ‘I
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Clever
Should you find yourself at Chelsea Harbour, make sure you head to THG Paris – the French bathroom fittings specialist unveiled its new showroom in the London design hub in September and it’s a sight to behold. View over 220 product ranges in shiny d
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Mirrored Surfaces
Not long ago, mirrored walls were a sign that your home was overdue for a refresh. After making a splash in the 1970s, when disco aesthetics inspired glam interiors, the flashy feature didn’t have staying power in the decades that followed. But desig
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Kitchen Hardware
Kitchen hardware needs to be three things: robust, comfortable to use and good-looking. While there’s a place for colourful versions in a fun, ultra-modern design, we love the range of contemporary-classic options from Corston. The brand’s cupboard f
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Fabulous Fireplaces
If you love the idea of a concrete fireplace, look no further than Hutch’s converted barn project for inspiration. ‘This fireplace was created using cast-in-situ concrete, with a board-formed finish that highlights the texture and grain patterns of w
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Negative Space
When designing a home, most people focus on how they can fill the space; a logical response, particularly when dealing with the empty carcass of a house you’ve just moved into or had refurbished. Once the furniture is in, you start to focus on how to
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Decluttering 101
Putting function first looks like prioritising what needs to be in a space based on what you use the most. ‘If clutter is getting in the way of functionality, the clutter has to go,’ says Tessa Hughes, decluttering professional and owner of Spatial A
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Lifestyle
The glam aesthetic is well and truly back and it’s on display at Sael, a new London brasserie headed up by chef Jason Atherton. Rosendale Design, the studio behind the interiors, infused the spaces with rich hues, intimate lighting and plenty of refl
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Hotel HOT LIST
After undergoing a renovation inspired by its storied history, this hotel at the heart of Barcelona is the chic spot in which to set down your bags – rooftop infinity pool, secret garden and all. The 1920s building’s history, as a private residence c
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Hidden TRAILS
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, 20121 When it comes to art, the Osservatorio Fondazione Prada – an avant-garde contemporary art space consistently offering thought-provoking exhibitions, coupled with stunning panoramic views of Milan – is a top favour
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Next BIG THING
You can’t help but fall in love with Queenie. I adore her and use her for almost every project I do. Having trained in trompe-l’oeil in Brussels, she’ll create all kinds of bonkers and beautiful murals that are essentially little worlds within people
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All In Order
The most important route to creating a kitchen that feels calm is to make sure that you get the layout right. Before we plan any kitchen we spend a lot of time with the client working out exactly how they like to live – where they’ll want to have bre
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Warm From Within
You can always rely on architects to have a very specific view on exactly what colour they want. And happily the luxury Italian kitchen brand Officine Gullo was able to oblige Anna Covre and Frederic Tubau’s request for their Venetian home, wrapping
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Playful Palettes
Bathrooms tend to be one of the smaller rooms, and because of this they offer a good opportunity to be playful with colour in a way that won’t take over your entire house. And if you carefully consider and use colour well, the bathroom will become a
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Wiggles And Curves
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