House and Garden

House & Garden unlocks the door to an array of unique homes and outdoor features, ranging from town houses and converted barns to fabulous modern apartments and island retreats. Outdoor features are equally varied, including cottage gardens, water gardens and chic, city courtyards. House & Garden provides an invaluable sourcebook of ideas, from design and decoration to the best of travel, delicious recipes and fine wine. Britain’s most glamorous, inspiring and influential design and decoration magazine.

Open House • Clare Foster reveals the stories behind the features in this month’s garden special

House and Garden

Room for debate

Being Beaton • Stella the pug with Hamish Bowles, who became Cecil Beaton in the Winter Garden of Reddish House, the icon’s former home, to celebrate Zoffany’s latest fabric collection

A special relationship • American designer Michael S Smith’s charming indoor-outdoor fabric collection for Zoffany is a transatlantic triumph

Pick & mix • RÉMY MISHON’s favourite shopping finds

A brush with greatness • A new exhibition at Cotswold hotel and estate Thyme reveals the enduring charm of murals as an art form

CULTIVATION COUNSEL • Homegrown advice for an abundant garden

art scene

Room service • Back for a fifth year, WOW!house at Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, is a showcase of inspirational spaces

On point • The Magic Needle revolutionised rug making in the 1930s. A new collection celebrates the ingenuity of its inventor, Edward Fields

spotlight

The List by House & Garden • Highlighting members of The List – an indispensable global guide for anyone wishing to improve their home

Carried away • Hold tight for WOJTEK VAN PORTEK’s selection of upscale bags – guaranteed to make everyday tasks feel more glamorous

Pattern recognition • An exhibition at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery celebrates the six-decade career of Marthe Armitage and her wondrous, hand-drawn linocut wallpapers and textiles

Stranger things

Ahead with the curves • Holly Hunt’s new design director Chris Eitel has embraced the challenge of evolving a brand while celebrating its legacy

Calm and collected • Made by the finest Italian artisans, John and Christine Gachot’s first furniture line with Artemest reflects the design duo’s style

Summer in a glass • High on glamour but low on effort, these cocktails are the drinks of the season

KITCHENS & BATHROOMS • Over 100 pages of inspiration and advice

DIG IT • A few of the antique trowels amassed over the past 25 years by American landscape architect David Rubin, whose vast and fascinating collection of garden tools – now in the thousands – is displayed in his Philadelphia design studio.

Tools gold • The American landscape architect David Rubin has amassed an impressive array of antique garden tools – each one with a fascinating tale to tell

True to form • Kew Gardens is a fitting setting for the largest ever outdoor exhibition of sculptures by Henry Moore

Show business • JODIE JONES previews some of the exceptional gardens that are being created for this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show and talks to their designers about the inspiration behind them

Dreaming spires • Continuing her series on old-fashioned plants, CLARE FOSTER celebrates the towering, flower-filled delphinium

Forever summer • At Benton End in Suffolk, the creative spirit of plantsman and artist Cedric Morris is being revived in a collaboration between the Garden Museum and The Pinchbeck Charitable Trust

London calling • In her own generously sized garden in Walthamstow, the designer Lulu Roper-Caldbeck has created a multi-layered, richly textured space

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