The air in the virtually unchanged Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia is still thick with the Victorian fervour for natural history| The World Of Interiors
A mineral collection in a garden perched by the water is a gem of a museum| The World Of Interiors
The founder of Greenwich’s Fan Museum strains to keep cool about her prize piece| The World Of Interiors
The bewitchingly beautiful Old Medicine House in Cheshire, saved from demolition by Booker-shortlisted author Alan Garner and his wife, Griselda, has a history that may well have been conjured. Inside the ancient walls of this 16th-century home museum, rebuilt beam by beam by the Garners in the 1970s, there’s magic in the air| The World Of Interiors
Paolo and Maria Catteneo’s house in Pescia Fiorentina, Italy, once played host to Puccini, among a crowd of other luminaries who loved to hunt. Since the Catteneos acquired the atypical Tuscan villa in the 1970s, in glorious tradition, they’ve given chase to a style that celebrates history and the great outdoors| The World Of Interiors
Castle Zuylen was once the home of Belle van Zuylen, an 18th-century rebel with ‘a head full of imagination’. For her, the castle was both a gilded cage and sanctuary – a place where she wrote letters formulating her ideas on marriage and freedom, but also the manifestation of her position in society| The World Of Interiors
Photography duo Coppi Barbieri on using textiles and water to create the dreamiest of still lifes| The World Of Interiors
This wood-panelled South London home of a lifelong antique collector is full of treasures| The World Of Interiors