The World of Interiors
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The World of InteriorsCan the genius of Elsa Schiaparelli ever be replicated? A V&A retrospective of Elsa Schiaparelli’s life and work, closing Sunday 15th November, shows the difficulty of reinventing a fashion house built not only on surprise, but on meeting the…
The World of InteriorsPhilolaos: the Greek sculptor who worked marvels with metal Inside the house/studio near Paris where Greek sculptor Philolaos was most on form, manipulating steel and other materials into intriguing art and furniture with a faintly Brutalist…
The World of InteriorsHamish Bowles’s tribute to Jean-Louis Riccardi Mr Bowles recalls Jean-Louis Riccardi, the incomparable decorator who died this summer
The World of InteriorsThe best new modern furniture showcased in Flintham Hall’s conservatory What’s that lurking only slightly rebelliously in the luxuriant foliage of Flintham Hall’s Grade I-listed Victorian conservatory?
The World of InteriorsWicker: how Wētā Workshop wove its magic on Alexander Skarsgård The new romantic fantasy film Wicker takes an ancient craft and turns into something else entirely – a very pliant heart-throb played by Alexander Skarsgård.
The World of InteriorsSophie Conran transforms a tired hotel into an elegant home in Wiltshire Sophie Conran’s Neoclassical mansion in the Marlborough Downs was once an uninviting hotel blighted by synthetic carpet and fluorescent strip lights.
The World of InteriorsCraft in the UK: can we save it? The state of craft in the UK is dire, a band of advocates warn, with systems failing to support the masters-in-training that traditionally would pass on their skills.
The World of InteriorsArtist and YBA tutor Michael Craig-Martin’s thoroughly modern Venetian apartment Despite living in a canal-side Byzantine Gothic flat in Venice, Michael Craig-Martin dismissed Murano glass and old masters as yesterday’s news. But what did you expect of the YBA’s old tutor?
The World of InteriorsAntique dealer Drew Pritchard salvages a stunning Georgian abode in Bath Eye-delighting finds, from a toy Roman soldier to Ely Cathedral benches, dot Drew Pritchard’s Georgian home in Bath – the 13th house he’s done up, ‘and the…
The World of InteriorsThe real reason we’re so obsessed with the YBAs The YBAs have come to stand for Britain in the 1990s – bolshy, laddish, ironic. But this collective ‘mood’ obscures their art’s power, argues Alex Hyde
The World of InteriorsRóisín Tapponi’s study is a hot, stylish mess Novelist Roísín Tapponi’s study in her De Beauvoir Town home is a glamorous clamour that reflects her whirl of a life
The World of Interiors‘Contrarian’ art dealer Ivor Braka hails Victorian design Ivor Braka is more exercised by the rare Aesthetic furniture he owns than the grand art he deals from his Queen Anne Revival home in Knightsbridge
The World of InteriorsArtist Kirstine Hindhede sculpts a living work of art in her Copenhagen garden Kirstine Hindhede balances the mediums of art and gardening in her carefully uncultivated Copenhagen plot
The World of InteriorsBarton Beneš created a home as curious as his art Oddities, from Madonna’s knickers to Larry Hagman’s gallstone, formed the found art of Barton Beneš, a forgotten face of Aids-era New York
The World of InteriorsThe ‘Kiosk’ founders preserve a family artistic legacy at home Founders of art/retail hybrid Kiosk, Marco ter Haar Romeny and Alisa Grifo, have made their own mark on a Provençal mas, chock-full of painterly paraphernalia from Marco’s artist…
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The World of InteriorsAmerica’s Hidden Treasures: little-known museums in the US Arnold Lehman tours the United States by way of its most esoteric museum collections, each one a complex capsule of national history
The World of InteriorsMichael Dorsch brings Pompeii to Manhattan Woodland gods, flying penis bells, pygmies battling crocodiles… You’ll find them all – and much more besides – on the walls of art historian Michael Dorsch’s flat in the West…
The World of InteriorsFluxus artists Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota’s SoHo loft With its shrine, coin collection and birthday artworks, the New York loft of video pioneers Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota is a moving record of their life…
The World of InteriorsPierre Sabatier’s Paris apartment-turned-archive Monumental metal sculptures dominated the prolific career of French artist Pierre Sabatier, whose legacy is kept alive by his son Damien.
The World of InteriorsRoland Roure’s weird-and-whimsical wire sculptures Enigmatic artist Roland Roure has conjured up thousands of sculptures from his secluded Provençal studio, employing sheet metal, wire cutters, and a whole lot of…
The World of Interiors‘Fantastical’ artist Leonor Fini was the mother of reinvention Despite many mesmeric transformations, artist Leonor Fini was comparatively overlooked in her lifetime. A substantial retrospective in Germany conjures the breadth of her fantastical life and…
The World of InteriorsGary Card and Jason Zhang’s hot-hued London flat Monsters of mischief, mavens of masking tape, Gary Card and Jason Zhang are set-design darlings of fashion. Godzilla, Bambi and vivid colours vie in their Brixton…
The World of InteriorsBrutalism meets Mesoamerica in Geraz Ato’s Mexican home Builder and artist Geraz Ato has carved reliefs of Mesoamerican paradise Tlalocan into the walls of his house, all drawn from Teotihuacán, the vast pre-Hispanic site that lies on his…
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The World of InteriorsThe Cosmic House and Casa Luis Barragán became unlikely bedfellows at Frieze Masters At this year’s Frieze Masters, a series of international galleries proved that the PoMo and Modernist architectural landmarks aren’t so very different after all – despite what we may have been taught…
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