For her One Lasting Thing, the artist considers an object which has been variously a raised bed, drying rack, sculpture showcase and cabinet of curiosities| The World Of Interiors
Long praised for its culinary offerings, the Cotswolds retreat Thyme has fast become a draw for interior-design lovers. Featuring an oxen barn, handmade ceramics, bespoke bedrooms and scenic vegetable patches, the hotel has reinvented itself as a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach| The World Of Interiors
Perched atop a hill in a Welsh valley and made entirely of reclaimed wood, The Scribbleatorium is much more than a simple writer’s hut| The World Of Interiors
Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now tells the story of contemporary art’s engagement with the historic traditions of South Asian miniature painting through 180 works drawn from historic public collections and rarely accessed private collections| The World Of Interiors
Like many Provençals, Magali Mille-Montagard’s family started making santons strictly for nativity scenes. But over the decades their roster expanded to include charming characters generally not thought to have been at the original event| The World Of Interiors
Famed for her richly descriptive writing, the aristocratic Danish novelist Karen Blixen was also a passionate gardener who brought the same evocative sensibility to her beguiling bouquets.| The World Of Interiors
These peculiarly animated blooms, both remedial and domestic, have become surprisingly well rooted in the artistic imagination – with Lucian Freud and Daphne du Maurier among those entranced by their bounded wildness. Our floral historian tames them into prose| The World Of Interiors
Arthur Parkinson – writer, gardener and keeper of chickens – conjures a Steichen-esque display of dahlias at the Grade II*-listed west London museum’s richly ornamented Arab Hall| The World Of Interiors
A budding new group of British flower farmers are blooming on to the scene, due to enhanced demand for locally grown stems| The World Of Interiors
It wasn’t enough for an apple or pear tree merely to yield crops in Louis XIV’s vegetable garden at Versailles. How it looked was just as important, with branches carefully coaxed into perfect concentric circles or something akin to a candelabra. Kudos then to Jean-Baptiste de la Quintinie, the head horticulturist at the Potager du Roi in the 17th century. A dab hand at pruning, he knew how to sate the Sun King’s appetite for aesthetic order, as well as for out-of-season strawberries, s...| The World Of Interiors
