As objects from his collection go up for auction, the Jamb founder traces a childhood spent in the antiques-world superstar’s Blackheath home| The World Of Interiors
The hotelier-turned-kilim dealer has made his gallery/showroom into a teeming collector’s trove, filled with textiles, art and antiques galore. ‘The thrill of the hunt has kept me going’, he tells us| 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
Golden masks, an oculus and loads of lava – Jacques Garcia’s grotto, 12 years in the building, is a mini-Pantheon in the interior designer’s Norman empire| 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