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.

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House and Garden

FROM THE EDITOR

Notebook • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME shows us what has caught her eye this month

Musical chairs • RÉMY MISHON celebrates upholstered dining chairs that have classic appeal

SMART NAPKIN SETS • BRADLEY PALMER serves up a delicious array of napkins with complementary rings

Sweet dreams • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME elevates beds with glorious bed hangings – from patterned canopies and sophisticated half-testers to bohemian bandanas

DESIGN IDEAS - from - ANNA SPIRO • In her Brisbane headquarters, the Australian interior designer has transformed three small flats into a large display apartment, where clients are met and presented with potential schemes for their homes. Anna explains to CHRISTABEL CHUBB how she has created harmony using pattern and colour

TARA CRAIG on UPHOLSTERY

ALL IN A DAYDRESS’S WORK

NOT FORGETTING THE FUTURE • We spend a lot of time talking about heritage brands delving into their archives to relaunch designs from the past. But it is good to see that many are also looking forward, collaborating with other brands and with external designers on pieces. Here are four stand-out examples

FIVE HIGHLIGHTS FROM MILAN DESIGN WEEK

Out & about

PARTY IN STYLE

ANTIQUES ONLINE • LAURA NORMANTON bookmarks the best sites for buying vintage and antique pieces, tracks the latest marketplace trends, and highlights exceptional examples of furniture, art and lighting for sale

CAVE INTERIORS • The List By House & Garden is our indispensable guide to design professionals. Take inspiration from this interiors scheme and these products, selected from some of its standout members

GARDENING COURSES • Start the new year as you mean to go on by enrolling on a course to take your skills to new heights. Options range from cut-flower cultivation to designing a small garden

Words and pictures

Art scene

PEOPLE • THIS MONTH: The erstwhile rebel whose new Greek island retreat attracts a quiet, unpretentious crowd; a design duo who prove that friends can do business; and an artist creating unsettlingly powerful portraits

HOME TO ROOST • After years spent defiantly adrift, ATHANASIA COMNINOS found her place on the Greek island of Antiparos, where her boutique hotel The Rooster is as entrenched in the landscape as she now is

STUDIO VERO • Romanos Brihi and Venetia Rudebeck explain to SERENA FOKSCHANER how a sixth sense shapes their designs – illustrated by Romanos’s inviting and intriguing home

SARAH BALL • She is not alone in being drawn to Cornwall, but instead of seascapes, this artist is making waves with her portraits. EMILY TOBIN meets Sarah – and her mesmeric subjects

Stories • THIS MONTH: London houses carefully edited by a novelist and a writer turned designer; plus a resurrected vicarage, an elegant barn and a flurry of snowdrops

novel ideas • Reflecting the combined vision of Jane Ormsby Gore and novelist Andrew O’Hagan, this former artist’s studio in Primrose Hill is much like a good piece of writing – a well-structured and carefully conceived space that continues to evolve as the author makes it his own

Story lines • From his background in journalism, interior designer Tom...