Nowruz – Iranian new year – is celebrated as the season changes. Between spring-cleaning and fire-jumping, seven plates are laid in a symbolic arrangement of individual artistry| The World Of Interiors
In a mountain chapel in Liguria, an extraordinary collection of paintings offer thanks to the Virgin Mary for stepping in to rescue locals from disaster| The World Of Interiors
Adam Stěch’s second Rediscovering Modernism column sees the intrepid writer/photographer climbing Expressionist staircases of 1920s and 30s northern Germany. Representing a connective dynamism, these staircases of Fritz Höger, Hans Poelzig, Erich Mendelsohn and others display intriguing decoration worthy of a closer look| The World Of Interiors
Blott Kerr-Wilson’s brilliant career has been bookended by bathrooms in this magazine. The first, a deep-sea grotto she made in her London council house, won a competition in WoI in the 1990s, setting her on her life’s course as a sheller extraordinaire. Now, living in Norfolk, she’s created a new conch-clad wonder. Damian Thompson washes up| The World Of Interiors
Fearing for the future of Senegal’s artisan-textile industry, Aïssa Dione designer set about saving it. Thanks to her, there’s now a buoyant market in chic manjak, the country’s traditional cloth, and a corner of a city near Dakar is alive once more with the clatter of looms| The World Of Interiors
Every June, in the villages of Hazaribagh, northeast India, monsoon rains wash away the vernacular Khovar designs painted by women to adorn their marital homes. WoI takes a moment to appreciate their fleeting nature| The World Of Interiors