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
Ann Broadbent’s individualistic art of assemblage produced one-of-a-kind interiors in her house in Crooms Hill, Greenwich| The World Of Interiors
Located by the harbour in Barmouth, northwest Wales, the Sailors’ Institute has provided a centre of comfort and community for generations of seafarers and their families. Rescued from ruin, it remains a focus of local life, with sally stories from years of ocean-going history on every wall| The World Of Interiors
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
Behind an unassuming front door in north London, newlyweds Aliénor Cros and Maximilian Shapiro have gone to town decorating their flat. Stopping just short of ripping out the cupboards and voiding their rental agreement, they've employed clever paintwork and flat-pack furniture hacks to lift the mood| The World Of Interiors
Villa Vizcaya owed far more to Venice than to its actual location, the Magic City, when built early last century. This subtropical Serenissima never fails to stupefy all who flock there| The World Of Interiors
With its array of Zoroastrian motifs, Chinese porcelain and intricate muqarnas, this antique showroom is a microcosm of the Silk Road itself| The World Of Interiors
The Celtic Revival Watts Cemetery Chapel, in a little village in Surrey, is full of surprises| The World Of Interiors
A budding new group of British flower farmers are blooming on to the scene, due to enhanced demand for locally grown stems| The World Of Interiors
After 1939, Cedric Morris presided over louche gatherings at a sprawling Tudor house in Suffolk, the site of his passionate plantsmanship| The World Of Interiors
Typographer and book designer Robert Dalrymple has transformed his former office in Edinburgh into a ‘House of Letters’| The World Of Interiors
Spooky season dictates we take a closer look at the Egyptian iconography in London’s most famous cemeteries, like Highgate and Brompton| 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
Commissioned by Min Hogg, this marbleous second-floor apartment in 17th-century Castel Giuliano appeared in WoI Jul 1992, with photographs by Karen Radkai. Contributing editor Marella Caracciolo Chia revisits the assignment, remembering in particular the property’s polymath castellan, the wonderfully unconventional Count Raniero Gnoli| The World Of Interiors
Particularly in Japanese culture, the tendril-like blossoms of this unique flower have woven a tangled web of art-historical meaning. Never fear: our resident bud buff is here to give you a potted history| The World Of Interiors
Lee Miller’s photographic catalogue, condensed to one hundred images, highlights her incisive vision| The World Of Interiors
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ritain’s postwar murals are colourful testaments to the period’s renewed hope, social conscience and artistic experimentation – yet many are at risk of demolition. The Twentieth Century Society is campaigning to protect them| The World Of Interiors
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The building has been bedecked with a beaded shroud that speak to the nation’s colonial past, as part of the 19th Architecture Biennale| The World Of Interiors
She designed Modernist houses for Greta Garbo and Wright S. Ludington. And yet the trailblazing architect Lutah Maria Riggs was most proud of an obscure Vedanta temple lying off the beaten track| The World Of Interiors
Richly patterned maiolica tiles crop up everywhere in Sicily, but nowhere in quite such profusion as Pio Mellina’s open-to-the-public apartments in a historic palazzo. Will his incredible collection ever stop growing…?| The World Of Interiors
Pre-Columbian art and objects drawn from Diego Rivera’s vast collection underpin the temple-like Museo Anahuacalli, displaying indigenous ingenuity to modern Mexicans| The World Of Interiors
Malta’s traditional stone may be in perilously short supply these days, but thankfully resourcefulness among the country’s inventors and creatives really isn’t| The World Of Interiors
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An invitation to imagine the atmosphere at Lina Bo Bardi’s marvellous Modernist kitchen at Casa de Vidro...| The World Of Interiors
In Almere, Holland, on a patch of reclaimed land, is a Da Vinci-like vision: artist Joost Conijn’s house that rotates thanks to pedal power| The World Of Interiors
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Artist and composer Lina Lapelytė has staged vocal performances in the environs of Charles Jencks’s former home| The World Of Interiors
It’s only right that the legend underlying the Atlantis House in Bremen, erected in 1931 as a temple to nationalist mythology, has been swept away by tides of condemnation. But despite the pseudo-history it promoted, the Expressionist architecture intended to symbolise the lost city is long overdue a deep dive| The World Of Interiors
Some people collect stamps, others novelty teapots. But for the artist Anders Zorn it was all about log cabins – close to 100, in fact, all forming a spectacular Swedish museum| The World Of Interiors
Sidelining his typically high-contrast and cartoonish style, the artist reimagines the gold-steeped flowers and vast city scenes of masters past – though all with a distinctly Murakami twist| The World Of Interiors
From antique textiles to objets and artworks, the past is ever present in the Manhattan apartment that the designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla and her husband, Aaron Aujla, share with their new child| The World Of Interiors
From French Resistance Fighters to Saint Francis of Assisi, Château de Montfrin's guest list offers a glimpse into the tortuous history of this Languedoc castle| The World Of Interiors
Peruse our top design picks to take your outdoor gatherings to the next level| The World Of Interiors
While gazing into César Manrique’s brilliant white sea-water rock pool in Lanzarote, architect Ellen van Loon, partner at Dutch practice OMA, reflected on how architecture in its purest form is merely the definition of space. Here she takes a moment to recall a carefree summer holiday| The World Of Interiors
Gloria Vanderbilt latterly lived among items with personal freight only. At the heiress’s New York home, her son Anderson Cooper is our guide| The World Of Interiors
When Slim Aarons was done being a US Army combat photographer he was quick to reinvent himself, finding the manicured gardens of moneyed families an attractive next step. His 1974 book, A Wonderful Time, shows the snapper at his best and the socialites at their most carefree| The World Of Interiors
The World of Interiors sends its in-house innocents abroad to the crown jewel of any linen-trousered aristocrat’s Italian odyssey. Join them on their quest to distil the city’s architectural buffet down to the crema della crema| The World Of Interiors
Forty years ago, a collective of forward-thinking creatives evolved a game-changing new concept for a dance club in Manchester – a place that embodied a paradigm shift for the city itself| The World Of Interiors
Take an exclusive tour of the Fornasetti ateliers in Milan, learning about how these incredible artisans paint, craft and produce the iconic Fornasetti homeware and furnishings| The World Of Interiors
Focusing on the story behind design objects, Studio KO's new online gallery features hundreds of handmade pieces that are singular in their beauty and shape| The World Of Interiors
Are Natasha Hulse’s playful appliqué creations made from fabric offcuts the future of sustainable luxury?| The World Of Interiors
Since the weaver totally remodelled her Canberra pad to make space for her loom, she’s turned her intuitive hand to threading the beautiful, be it house-paint flowers or Matisse homages, through every inch of it| The World Of Interiors
The founders of Crûg Farm Plants near Anglesey roam the world in search of rare species, discovers James Compton| The World Of Interiors
Spelling aside, you’d expect carats and little gems to be in WoI’s exteriors issue – but don’t be led up the garden path. Enjoy, instead, Carol Woolton’s account of jewellery inspired by flowers| The World Of Interiors
Published monthly in print and daily on its website and digital platforms, The World of Interiors is a global title celebrating originality in design, decorating, arts and culture| The World Of Interiors
Dig into our selection of the best emerging makers inspired by nature| The World Of Interiors
Artistic portrayals of athleticism in the interwar period| The World Of Interiors
In the Soviet era, the former socialist state showed a surprisingly progressive outlook by adopting avant-garde architecture for its foreign outposts| The World Of Interiors
The air in the virtually unchanged Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia is still thick with the Victorian fervour for natural history| The World Of Interiors
A mineral collection in a garden perched by the water is a gem of a museum| The World Of Interiors
The founder of Greenwich’s Fan Museum strains to keep cool about her prize piece| 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
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
Castle Zuylen was once the home of Belle van Zuylen, an 18th-century rebel with ‘a head full of imagination’. For her, the castle was both a gilded cage and sanctuary – a place where she wrote letters formulating her ideas on marriage and freedom, but also the manifestation of her position in society| The World Of Interiors
Schist just got real: uncover the world’s most alluring shell grottos| The World Of Interiors
Since moving to Margate part time, Nicholas Cullinan and Mattias Vendelmans have been seeing quite a lot of the skies that drew Turner to the resort recurrently. In fact, every passing cloud is the source of endless reflection, thanks to all the mirrored strips that line their bolthole in a Brutalist block and expand its view, albeit wonkily| The World Of Interiors
Strawberry-toned and sprinkled with delicious details, Morelli’s gelateria in Kent looks good enough to eat| The World Of Interiors
Mitchell Owen and others fondly recall the eccentric Min Hogg and relate some anecdotes about their encounters with her| The World Of Interiors
If having a ‘distinctive flower personality’ is possible, Lindsey Taylor has one in abundance. A new book reveals the artful inspirations behind her bouquets. Flip back and forth between a classic painting and Taylor’s floral interpretation of it| The World Of Interiors
A bungalow below a house built for Isadora Duncan in Le Dattier, France, proved a paradise for Laure-Isabelle Mellerio and her family. Patterned with impressionistic murals by Germaine Chanteaud-Chabas and decorated to echo the colours of the landscape, the bungalow has been a home to many happy memories| 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
Designed by Martin Brudnizki with artworks, from Warhol to Turnbull, curated by Jonathan Brook, the Broadwick Soho hotel in the heart of the capital blends all the eclecticism of Studio 54 with an intimate, townhouse allure. The pair want you to treat it like your beloved godmother's home; and you're overdue a visit| The World Of Interiors
A new Marrakesh warehouse gallery draws from contemporary Moroccan design while avoiding the clichés. Its exhibition Noir sur Blanc unites Pop art, film, photography and collectables sourced from Atelier Mayer founder Carmen Haid’s vintage trove| The World Of Interiors
Is there a secret language hidden in 17th- and 18th-century Dutch still-life flower paintings? Although mostly rejected by modern scholarship, this idea is so beguiling that it refuses to go away… From the symbolic to the mundane, double meanings abound in these bouquets| The World Of Interiors
In the 1780s, at his Umbrian villa, a young cavaliere blew his fortune on booze and betting – and a cast of eye-fooling painted characters. Marella Caracciolo Chia finds beauty in bankruptcy| The World Of Interiors
Photography duo Coppi Barbieri on using textiles and water to create the dreamiest of still lifes| The World Of Interiors
The fabrics and garments on show in ‘Andy Warhol: The Textiles’ were only recently attributed to the Pop Art icon – a feat of detective work undertaken curator-collectors Richard Chamberlain and Geoffrey Raynor| The World Of Interiors
Robert Indiana shows us Warhol when the wig is off, or rather before it was even put on.| The World Of Interiors
Will the distinctively purple theatre in Sarasota become redundant, or step into a new creative use?| The World Of Interiors
Denmark’s the spot for this design extravaganza, which packs a lot of Scandi brands into its little span. Here are the highlights.| The World Of Interiors
A milestone birthday proved a fine excuse for WoI’s style director to make tracks and party in style – on the Venice–Simplon Orient Express| The World Of Interiors
This perfectly preserved Art Deco lodge is a time capsule of the 1930s| The World Of Interiors
M+ Gallery shines a light on the life and work on one of the world’s most renowned architects, IM Pei| The World Of Interiors
After the demolition of the Firestone Tyre Factory, an Art Deco gem, in 1980, the government vowed not to let the same fate befall the Hoover Building: the jewel in the crown of architects Wallis, Gilbert & Partners. Now protected by its Grade II-listed status, the newly renovated 1930s complex still bears the scars of developments past| The World Of Interiors
Objects once lost to the Seine’s murky depths have been recovered and displayed in a new exhibition, one that celebrates Paris’s flowing river of time| 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
Seeking to explore the connection between architecture and memory, The World of Interiors has commissioned a series of ‘architectural pen portraits’ – beautifully crafted descriptions of buildings and rooms – from architects and designers, who set the scene behind the places that have personally moved them. Here, Swedish-born designer Martin Brudnizki recalls childhood visits to the Guards Tent at Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm| The World Of Interiors
When an 18th-century cottage became available on her parents’ farm in southern Sweden, London-based interior decorator Beata Heuman jumped at the chance to recover this ‘missing piece’ of her identity. Her childhood was forged in this idyllic rural setting, and it’s proven a wellspring of the imagination ever since| The World Of Interiors
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A new exhibition at the Design Museum charts the extraordinary evolution of the sari in the past decade as a new generation reinvent it for themselves across India’s urban centres| The World Of Interiors
A corner of the Italian capital has been overrun – by objets, works in progress and upcycled antiques, that is. Rolf Sachs, armed with eternal optimism and a taste for the surreal, leads the charge of arty bric-à-brac, from exit-sign tables to bucket lights. For all the conquering chaos, the Swiss artist’s car park-turned-studio is still eloquent in the design principles of its prima lingua, with palazzo-inspired lime paste and crushed-brick floors seized from the ancient Romans| The World Of Interiors
For her new Los Angeles exhibition, the self-taught sculptor piles on the praise for all things natural| The World Of Interiors
Felipe Oliveira Baptista has lived in Paris for two decades but misses the continual sunshine that his native Lisbon afforded. So when he and his wife, Séverine, went hunting for a flat in the City of Lights large picture windows and a panorama were top of the agenda| The World Of Interiors
Stockholm has a bustling grandeur to rival Europe’s most bourgeois metropolises with a decorative flair that belies the minimalism of stereotype. David Lipton divulges his most stylish finds while staying in this Scandinavian expanse| The World Of Interiors
Deploying sheep-raddle colours, antique glass and his own joinery, Hilton Marlton put conservation at the heart of the conversation in his 18th-century Welsh farmstead. Liz Elliot visits| The World Of Interiors
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Photographer Tina Barney is known for her large-scale prints, yet an exhibition at at the Kasmin Gallery in New York reveals an archive of images taken on film in her formative years. This exclusive preview reveals how Barney studied interior spaces and played with perspective to help develop her distinctive style| The World Of Interiors
In this Rediscovering Modernism column, writer Adam Stěch walks the streets of Uruguay's capital, observing some of the most elaborate examples of Art Deco architecture, visiting buildings from both maverick pioneers and under-appreciated architects| The World Of Interiors
Beyond the monumental façades of Italian Rationalist and Neoclassical buildings of the 1930s, one can find many exquisite and refined examples of lighting design. For his column Rediscovering Modernism, Adam Stěch documents some of the luminaries responsible| The World Of Interiors
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The history of the medium has long been rooted in church architecture; now, modern makers are diffracting its variegated possibilities| The World Of Interiors
Blending sci-fi, mythology, and surrealism, The Spell or The Dream transforms the heart of London into a hypnotic space of genderless beings, poetic broadcasts, and urgent calls to awaken.| The World Of Interiors
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On a mountainside in Piedmont, Paolo Pejrone has created his own slice of paradise, one that eschews all pesticides. Here, surrounded by animals, the esteemed gardener lives in splendid isolation| The World Of Interiors
As the equestrian events of the Paris 2024 Olympics kick off in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles, revisit this story that reveals Marie Antoinette’s Méridienne room restoration, in her Versailles apartment| The World Of Interiors
Le Jardin Plume, a heathery, feathery garden in France created by self-taught gardeners Patrick and Sylvie Quibel, is best seen in winter, when cobwebs and dew draw a golden filigree between the tops of grasses, bare trees and the stripped structure of rose bushes| The World Of Interiors
Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States brilliantly details how, in the 18th century, the principles underlying republican ideals were translated into spatial form| The World Of Interiors
Not open to the public and encircled by a rustic brick wall, the kitchen garden at Bolton Abbey is paved with paths less trodden. There is one prominent set of footprints, however: that of gardener Peter Smith, who has tended the space for over 20 years| The World Of Interiors
Arnaud Mauriéres believes that the future of horticulture lies with gardens of prickly succulents. This greenery – born in a dry bed – is just as pretty as traditional English flower-patches however, bursting into bright and fragrant bloom| The World Of Interiors
Artist Mark Lawson Bell is an avid collector of ‘sherds’ found in nature, often overlooked by other passersby. In his book, ‘Tales From Broken Plates’, Bell pieces together fact and fiction to recreate the final moments of 52 fragments of collected plate| The World Of Interiors
In his book ‘The Irish Country House’, Robert O’ Byrne explores the diverse array of Ireland's interiors| The World Of Interiors
At first sight, Osborne’s group portrait seems en harmonie with the uplifting canvases of Monet et al. But this dappled scenario harbours darker undertones| The World Of Interiors
From sponging to stippling, our resident Jocasta Innes junkie has done it all in his time – and what’s more started young. What was he thinking? Trigger warning: this piece contains graphic descriptions of 1980s procedures that some readers may find, er, distressing| The World Of Interiors
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