Genealogy met geology when the grandson of architect Piero Portaluppi took over his forebear’s Milan flat – and his ancient marbles| The World Of Interiors
The bewitchingly beautiful Old Medicine House in Cheshire, saved from demolition by Booker-shortlisted author Alan Garner and his wife, Griselda, has a history that may well have been conjured. Inside the ancient walls of this 16th-century home museum, rebuilt beam by beam by the Garners in the 1970s, there’s magic in the air| 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
Steeped in the Moderne style, the interwar designer Armand-Albert Rateau also nodded to ancient ecclesiastical architecture to add some god-given glamour to his opulent schemes. Take these three 1920s bathrooms, conceived for a French couturière, a Spanish duchess and an American socialite, which borrow from Romanesque churches, Byzantine basilicas and beyond| The World Of Interiors
