The tesserae of an urban village – a five-storey artwork on a north London housing estate – have just been restored. Alice Kemp- Habib hears about the hardy souls who erected it in the 1980s| The World Of Interiors
‘Grandmotherly’ is how fashion designer Johnson Hartig describes his new house in Los Angeles. If so, it seems she’s been on a high-speed, hallucinatory world cruise. Dipping into Provence and Marrakesh, via olde-worlde England, the interior is a dense, dayglo cornucopia, rich with chintz and chinoiserie, baskets and Baroque portraits – all held together by unerring instinct| The World Of Interiors