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
This wood-panelled South London home of a lifelong antique collector is full of treasures| The World Of Interiors
A synapse-popping shrine to ceramic art, the maximalist Kentish Town home of Carol McNicoll isn’t pulling its punches. And why should it? All its exuberant layers – with walls of embedded olive oil cans adjoining a Neo-Baroque mural – make it patently the perfect place for this radical iconoclast to potter about in| The World Of Interiors