This must be the place, realised a stunned Verde Visconti when she climbed a crumbling Torricella and saw far off the façade of Orvieto cathedral. Years earlier, a prince had urged the interior designer to make a pilgrimage (‘It reminds me of you’), so her epiphany and subsequent acquisition of the Medieval edifice felt like the resolution of a personal legend| The World Of Interiors
Writing has long been in our contributor’s blood, it would seem – a legacy she uncovers as she leafs through her great-grandmother’s lost children’s novel, a precious object that inscribes her family’s hidden past in white ink| The World Of Interiors
Genealogy met geology when the grandson of architect Piero Portaluppi took over his forebear’s Milan flat – and his ancient marbles| The World Of Interiors
Every September after the war, Italian aristos and Hollywood royalty would float up to Lily Volpi’s 16th-century canalside palazzo for a dazzling ball. As its contents head for auction, Natasha A. Fraser scans the floor| The World Of Interiors
What a highly collectable set of cigarette cards from the 1920s can tell us about the history of horology| The World Of Interiors
Embracing her love of the organic inside her home just as beyond it, the topiarist gives us a tour of her personal green-fingered haven| The World Of Interiors
Scattered with ruins and relics, the Troad in northwestern Anatolia is a theatre for the high drama of ‘Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor’, a photographic record of the remnants of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire by Sir Don McCullin and Barnaby Rogerson| The World Of Interiors
Schist just got real: uncover the world’s most alluring shell grottos| The World Of Interiors
