Arriving in Britain from Jamaica in 1969 was a ‘huge shock’ for author Yvonne Bailey-Smith, but she built a life for herself in northwest London, an area immortalised in her daughter Zadie’s writings| The World Of Interiors
Homing in on the history of Ghanaian independence, Shawn Adams gives his highlights of the London gallery’s exhibition, which closes on Sunday| The World Of Interiors
A look back at the last century — and to the next — of the UK’s longest-living cinemas, in the face of widespread picture-house closures| The World Of Interiors
In his Bethnal Green flat, a former yoga studio, artist Enrico David uses the human body as a vehicle for mental contortions in a range of media| World Of Interiors
‘Peter Doig: House of Music’ is a high note at Serpentine South, where the artists remixes his sonic influences in a multi-sensory exhibition| The World Of Interiors
Wielding the transformative quality of silk the Malawi-born artist, Billie Zangewa, dedicates her hand-stitched artwork to inciting social change and celebrating the labours of motherhood. Leaving her textiles aesthetically unfinished, she invites onlookers to insert themselves into her art in order to fill in the gaps| The World Of Interiors
A new auction at Sotheby’s Paris features 75 of the French designer’s objects, each attributed to the 75 years that he has strived towards sublimity| The World Of Interiors
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
Following the painstaking restoration of Sir John Soane’s drawing office, a new generation of visitors get to tread where the apprentices once toiled. Here, Erdem Moralıoğlu and Rebecca Swirsky evoke the reality of life at the drafting tables 240 years ago| The World Of Interiors
What’s blue and white and read all over?| The World Of Interiors
Jean Rhys, the mercurial author of Wide Sargasso Sea, is the subject of a group exhibition curated by the writer and critic Hilton Als| The World Of Interiors
Anyone visiting San Giorgio Maggiore to see the Tintorettos is in for a big surprise: they’ve been replaced – temporarily – by two secular abstract paintings by the Belgian artist Luc Tuymans| The World Of Interiors
The rescue and renovation of a dilapidated monastery garden on a secluded Croatian island is a revelation.| The World Of Interiors
Sussex countryside churches are home to the remnants of fabulous Medieval frescoes painted by the Lewes Group – a travelling group of monks| The World Of Interiors
For her One Lasting Thing, the artist considers an object which has been variously a raised bed, drying rack, sculpture showcase and cabinet of curiosities| The World Of Interiors
Long praised for its culinary offerings, the Cotswolds retreat Thyme has fast become a draw for interior-design lovers. Featuring an oxen barn, handmade ceramics, bespoke bedrooms and scenic vegetable patches, the hotel has reinvented itself as a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach| The World Of Interiors
Perched atop a hill in a Welsh valley and made entirely of reclaimed wood, The Scribbleatorium is much more than a simple writer’s hut| The World Of Interiors
Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now tells the story of contemporary art’s engagement with the historic traditions of South Asian miniature painting through 180 works drawn from historic public collections and rarely accessed private collections| The World Of Interiors
Like many Provençals, Magali Mille-Montagard’s family started making santons strictly for nativity scenes. But over the decades their roster expanded to include charming characters generally not thought to have been at the original event| The World Of Interiors
Famed for her richly descriptive writing, the aristocratic Danish novelist Karen Blixen was also a passionate gardener who brought the same evocative sensibility to her beguiling bouquets.| The World Of Interiors
These peculiarly animated blooms, both remedial and domestic, have become surprisingly well rooted in the artistic imagination – with Lucian Freud and Daphne du Maurier among those entranced by their bounded wildness. Our floral historian tames them into prose| The World Of Interiors
Arthur Parkinson – writer, gardener and keeper of chickens – conjures a Steichen-esque display of dahlias at the Grade II*-listed west London museum’s richly ornamented Arab Hall| The World Of Interiors
Artisans in Pyrgi, a town on the Greek island of Chios, have become masters of incising elaborate designs into the plasterwork of buildings – but without a new generation to pick up the baton, the art form is itself being chipped away| World Of Interiors
Liberty has teamed up with the William Morris Gallery to showcase the talented – yet often overlooked – women behind its distinct designs| World Of Interiors
Emily Tobin introduces the November 2025 issue, our annual ‘Living with Art’ special, with a mediation on how art and writing collect our vital frailties| World Of Interiors
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Boris Vervoordt’s ultra-ambient penthouse flat in a 19th-century malting distillery in Antwerp shows that the aesthete is wheel to his father’s Axel| World Of Interiors
If you are looking for something to brace your spirits in this inbetween-time of year, we have pulled together a list of things to do, see, buy and eat around the UK this month…| World Of Interiors
A year ago, we petitioned our readers to cast in prose their most precious treasures. Now, wrapping up the second iteration of The World of Interiors Writing Competition, Elly Parsons is pleased to announce this year’s two winners and four runners-up| World Of Interiors
Iqbal Hussain is the UK winner of The World of Interiors Writing Competition 2025, created in collaboration with Montblanc. His winning piece, When the Streets Fell Silent is written in response to the creative brief ‘One Lasting Thing’| World Of Interiors
Rita LaForce is the US winner of The World of Interiors Writing Competition 2025, created in collaboration with Montblanc. Her winning piece, Fiammeta Wears Pretty Clothes is written in response to the creative brief ‘One Lasting Thing’| World Of Interiors
Alongside two winners, there were four additional entries that responded to the prompt of ‘One Lasting Thing’, and really stood out to our judging panel. We hope you enjoy them!| World Of Interiors
Finella, a house in Cambridge, was Mansfield ‘Manny’ Forbes’s Art Deco imaginarium. Now housing an assortment of professors, this study in idiosyncratic design lives up to its creator’s vision as an unofficial exhibition piece| World Of Interiors
The French artist has flooded Marseille with a city-spanning set of characteristically out-there installations – from a film following the fallen Icarus beneath the waves to a massive breast sculpture embodying the sea’s power and benevolence| World Of Interiors
The merchants of Zagori were a theatrical bunch, flaunting their wealth, erudition and worldliness in entire rooms decorated with stage curtains, proscenium columns, rococo panels, strange beasts and... well, you name it, really| World Of Interiors
Unlike other New York high-fliers, Nadine Johnson has ensured every inch of her Chelsea home has a pillowy corner for stray guests to curl up in – archetypal Manhattan sleekness be damned| World Of Interiors
As a girl, Annika Thiems once fixed upholstery springs to her shoes, for short-lived flights of fancy. Her ribbon hoods and pouch-heavy shirts typify a fashion designer mining her own odd seam| World Of Interiors
On show at Galerie Max Hetzler in London, Danielle Mckinney’s portraits of solitary women are pregnant with feeling – and lovely attention-grabbing interior details| World Of Interiors
An ardent account of the loss of English common land, from 18th-century enclosures to techno-rave culture’s battles with the Thatcher government| World Of Interiors
At Laeken Cemetery in Belgium, the sepulchral atelier of sculptor Ernest Salu is filled with fine funerary monuments and other ghostly relics of the past| World Of Interiors
Read all about it! Peter Harrington Rare Books, the renowned London antique bookseller, has just opened its newest location in the Upper East Side – selling everything from Shakespeare’s First Folio to John Lennon’s lithographs| World Of Interiors
The fashion designer’s landmark first monograph, celebrating 20 years in the industry, unpicks the threads of a complex corpus – and the historic women that have often served as creative fuel| World Of Interiors
At his antique shop in Petworth, West Sussex, Morgan Lukies is maintaining the legacy begun by his father in the 1970s – but with an even stronger focus on creating striking tableaux of objects in the historic 16th-century interior| World Of Interiors
Owen Hopkins maps out a compelling string of properties which strove to ‘change the future of architecture’ in his latest book, The Manifesto House| World Of Interiors
Brimslade House, which formed part of the historic Seymour estates in Wiltshire, is the model of a country residence. But inside, gallery director Charles Bradstock’s fine art collection is offset by a surprising, overwhelming number of hats| World Of Interiors
Decorator Joanna Plant has done up the Camden off-licence (and flats above) once frequented by Amy Winehouse| World Of Interiors
The Oscar-winning atelier Cosprop is the subject of a new exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. So what better time to take a tour of the atelier where its period-perfect costumes come to life?| World Of Interiors
Spanning Victorian photography to contemporary art, this show celebrates all things spooky and spectral| World Of Interiors
Terry Ellis and Keiko Kitamura assembled everything from Japanese mingei pottery and African artworks to mid-century Scandinavian furniture for their duplex apartment| World Of Interiors
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The artist’s latest film reinterprets the classic epic with a tale of two goddesses, played by Gwendoline Christie and Sheila Atim| The World Of Interiors
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Her beloved haunt in London on her rare slow days, the interior designer talks us through her amour with this illustrious palace of contemporary art (and its rather excellent gift shop)| The World Of Interiors
Turner Prize-winning British artist Lubaina Himid presents a new exhibition at Glyndebourne Festival this summer, following the success of Tate Modern’s show of her thought-provoking works. Combining her passion for opera with sensory exploration, she hopes to inspire reflection on auditory representations of love| The World Of Interiors
In celebration of the coronation, Christopher Farr Cloth has recast the sprawling rose design ‘Richmond’ by Michael Szell, a favourite decorator of the royal family| The World Of Interiors
Hotels don’t get much more fabled than the Chelsea in New York City. Like so many of her raffish former residents and guests – from Dylan Thomas to Edie Sedgwick – the old broad had sunk into decrepitude, a husk of fading memories and spicy anecdotes. Now she’s had a sensitive facelift, but you can still tell she lived it large| The World Of Interiors
Artistic vision, technical innovation and material play unite the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2023 finalists| The World Of Interiors
Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour’s new showcase promises a string of design stars to outshine all the rest| 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
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
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