Before photographs, catalogues or magazines, interior-design enthusiasts consulted tomes teeming with highly decorative furniture illustration. Mark Westgarth peeks inside the cabinet of this enchanting art form| 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