One of King Charles’s crowning glories must surely be the gardens that he’s lovingly nurtured from nothing at Highgrove, his Gloucestershire private realm, over the past 40 or so years. And most enchanting of all, certainly as spring segues into summer, is the walled kitchen garden, where His Majesty’s singular vision continues to bear fruit – and other produce besides – quite beautifully| The World Of Interiors
The local hospital in the French town of Baugé, built in 1675, was a hard-wrought refuge for the ailing poor. But cast aside any grim visions of desperate hovels and wizened mountebanks: despite all the suffering it saw, the building was strikingly opulent, with a baroque apothecary hidden away at its heart. Still perfectly preserved with all its original pillboxes, jars and intricate herb cases, the chamber is a moment in medical history, bottled| The World Of Interiors
Deserted for over 40 years, this Welsh cottage was a restoration dream for surveyor Dorian Bowen. Having fantasised, since childhood, of transforming cottages into castles, he set to replacing the rotten woodwork with forest timbers, scouting for 17th-century furnishings and hand-crafting stick-backed chairs to save the space from desolation. The result, is a homey holiday accommodation that can be appreciated by all through Airbnb| The World Of Interiors
Just as artist Zuleika Melluish’s clay and porcelain flowers help connect her to nature, so too, in turn, does tending her perennial garden in Wales help ground her practice| The World Of Interiors
In a mountain chapel in Liguria, an extraordinary collection of paintings offer thanks to the Virgin Mary for stepping in to rescue locals from disaster| The World Of Interiors
