A designer’s artfully layered London home with the most charming garden studio
From Virginia Woolf’s writing lodge at Monk’s House to Henry Moore’s summer house in Perry Green, there is…
A west London townhouse that reflects its owner’s eclectic yet elegant style
That’s not to say the house didn’t need work. The previous owner, who has become a good friend…
A 400-year-old house in the Kentish countryside filled with a multicultural collection of art and design
Joseph Stone and Stanley Quaia, the duo they picked to help them, turned out to be a particularly…
A quietly characterful Norfolk home with interiors inspired by its bucolic surroundings
From the moment interior designer Rebecca Hughes set foot inside this Norfolk home, an impressive six-bedroom, six-bathroom Georgian…
An 18th-century Spitalfields house with intriguing, filmic interiors
Walking through the rooms, Gaby describes an ethos of keeping what she can ‘and working with it’. Two…
Inside Maria de la Orden’s quietly elegant Paris townhouse where French refinement meets Spanish warmth
After Maria’s 14 years in the French capital, the influence of Parisian style is unmistakable in the house,…
The bohemian Spanish apartment where fashion designer Penelope Chilvers spends her summers
‘It was basically a white box,’ says Penelope, of the flat when she first took ownership, ‘For the…
A little cottage on the Cornish coast imbued with a sense of history and personality
A view from the sitting room to the hallway. Will Slater At the back of the room, to…
A New England Colonial house that has become a melting pot of global design influences
Fromental wallpaper panels were hand painted to blend with the patina of the study’s original paneling. David Mitchell…
A storybook cottage in the Cotswolds with an intriguing literary history
As well as creating a more practical layout for family life, Chris and William wanted to restore the…
The historic Milanese apartment and workshop of Laboratorio Paravicini’s creative founder
The business was born of serendipity in the early 1990s. Costanza, who trained in art and graphic design…
A supremely charming home in eastern Australia that brings the outside in
When designing this garden, I was driven by both form and layout as well as by the need…