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Interiors

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Miriam Balanescu
    Is ‘fridgescaping’ the answer to the post-holiday blues?

    Let’s see if the TikTok trend of displaying flowers, ornaments and framed photographs of loved ones alongside the sausages — or even channelling ‘The Lord of the Rings’ in the veg section — can lift the mood

    a beautifully styled refrigerator, showcasing fresh produce, beverages, and small bouquets of white flowers
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #97: William Morris’s Red House

    The Kent family home of the English designer and writer was a canvas of decorative experimentation for him and his Pre-Raphaelite circle during a five-year idyll

  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    Prime property
    Hot property: five homes in Bath

    From a grand Regency town house of the type immortalised in Jane Austen novels, to a pretty stone cottage in a nearby village

    An aerial view of a crescent of pale stone georgian townhouses overlooking a green; beyond them are sweeping views of surrounding town, houses, gardens and countryside in the distance
  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
    House & Home
    How will we live in 2025? Trends in design, interiors and gardening to look out for

    Where will we move to, what will we plant, how will we build and which colours will we paint it all? Experts from Kelly Wearstler to Tom Stuart-Smith have the answers

    a collage of six distinct photographs, namely a row of elegant, curved terraced houses, an interior with teal-painted walls and a staircase, a close-up of a pale peach-coloured rose in full bloom, a minimalist outdoor space, an interior with warm yellow walls and a circular window, and lastly an industrial-style room with an exposed ceiling and minimal decor
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Architecture
    Do your flowers, pickling jars or wrapping paper need a room of their own?

    As an antidote to the bustle of open-plan living, more clients are asking architects and designers to create spaces dedicated to quiet indulgences

    A room with cabinetry, wallpaper and curtains all in similar shades of pale green, with a sink next to plants and flowers
  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    A new window of opportunity for Japanese noren curtains

    Traditionally hung as signs in the country’s shop doorways, these delicate textiles are being adopted and adapted by designers and artists around the world

    Semi-transparent fabric panels in different shades. Behind the hanging panels, a person is partially visible
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    HTSI
    Controversial coriander is having a fragrance renaissance

    But can you handle a herbaceous perfume? 

    DS & Durga Coriander, £168 for 50ml
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    HTSI
    These paintings will put a spell on you

    The magical art of enchantment

    Canna, 2024, by Makiko Kudo, who opens a solo show at Koyama Gallery Kyobashi in May
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    The Aesthete
    ‘My style icons are the women I’m related to’: fashion royalty Lucie de la Falaise talks taste

    The design consultant and former model on mustard, starburst mirrors and her late mother-in-law Anita Pallenberg

    Lucie de la Falaise in her West Sussex home
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    A new chapter for the velvet makers of Venice

    Designers and artists are playing with the storied fabric, bringing new vim to the looms that have been clacketing away since the 16th century

    Fabric rolls arranged on a counter. The fabrics feature floral and damask patterns. Behind the fabric rolls, there are two framed vintage black-and-white photographs hanging on the wall covered in patterned fabrics
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    FT SeriesDon’t miss – HTSI’s most popular stories
    Could a bespoke duvet transform your sleep?

    In search of the ultimate bedding

    Norvegr bedding on Belmond’s Eastern & Oriental Express
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    FT SeriesSave our skills: an HTSI craft special
    ‘My plan to save the Potteries – one tile at a time’

    Balineum’s Sarah Watson on her wild endeavour to keep an industry alive

    Sarah Watson in the clay room at Phoenix Tile Studio
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    FT SeriesSave our skills: an HTSI craft special
    The silversmiths strike back

    Deep in the Oxfordshire countryside, Bishopsland school is reviving a great British craft

    The 2024 Bishopsland cohort of silversmiths in training at the workshops in Buscot, Oxfordshire
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    InterviewAt Home with the FT
    Inside Maurice Saatchi’s mansion: ‘Look how perfect it all is. Even the log pile’

    The advertising maverick’s crenellated Sussex mansion strives for immortality — but are a new book ‘Orgasm’ and a bid for The Daily Telegraph really part of the plan?

    A person is sitting on a red upholstered chair. He has one leg crossed over the other. He’s wearing glasses with round frames, a light blue long-sleeve shirt, white pants, and black shoes
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    FT SeriesHow To Give It in 2024
    ‘Show people who you are by the work that you do’: former NFL star Michael Bennett talks taste

    The designer and philanthropist on cake, community and creating change

    Bennett at home in Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Arts
    The new Chinese pottery museum that’s a feat of clay

    With a facade constructed of 3,600 tiles, the dragon-shaped UCCA Clay puts Yixing firmly on the tourist map

    A view from above of a strangely shaped building of red-brown tiles
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Natalie Whittle
    Can you ever really know someone until you’ve been to their house?

    As festive parties see normally closed doors wedged open, an ever-simmering judgment sport cranks up. Let the covert interiors appraisals begin

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Naoto Fukasawa: the ‘super normal’ hero’s new design show

    His utilitarian yet playful designs for Muji, Alessi and B&B Italia have made him if not a household name, a household presence. An exhibition in Philadelphia celebrates his everyday superpower

    A man dressed in a black puffer jacket and cap holding an inverted metal stool
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Luke Edward Hall
    Festive tables should be otherworldly

    Now is not the time for nuance: decorate with gilded acorns, wild windswept glasses, and a centrepiece of seaweed and rock

    Image features a table covered with a vibrant red tablecloth, some wooden chairs, white plates, sparkling glassware, and silver cutlery. To the right of the dining setup is a large, lush Christmas tree
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    HTSI
    How to futureproof your castle

    Eastnor, a high temple of Victoriana, has seduced kings, clerics, and Shiv from Succession. Now, its châtelaine is channelling its style into a line of furnishings

    Imogen Hervey-Bathurst in the Gothic Drawing Room
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Architecture
    Architects design community solutions for combatting climate disaster

    Better social infrastructure can foster resilience in densely-populated urban environments

  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Christmas Special 2024
    Have yourself a (tastefully) tacky Christmas

    Is your tree the ‘right’ kind of wrong? ’Tis the season to navigate the forest of good ‘bad taste’

    A novelty Christmas ornament designed to look like a hamburger
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    FT SeriesThe interiors edit
    All the trimmings: ruffles and frills are pretty and practical

    They can add softness and warmth to decor — but are a savvy storage hack too

    A living room corner features an upholstered sofa with a blue fabric that has white geometric and floral patterns.  On it are throw pillows. The armrest of the sofa is a carved wooden lion’s head. To the left of the sofa is a round table covered with a soft pink fabric. On top of that is a glass vase, some books, and a lampshade hanging from above
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Hazel Gardiner
    Whimsical and wild festive foliage

    From ‘deconstructed displays’ to novel ways with seed heads, bracken and rose hips, there’s a world beyond holly to embrace

    A garland of ivy and other leafy greens interspersed with white roses and small yellow flowers draped along a plain white wall
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Christmas Special 2024
    Present perfect: 2024’s best garden and interiors books

    Discover horticultural treasures hidden behind Venetian walls or amid snow in the Arctic Circle — and step inside the private worlds of titans of art, architecture and design

    a curated selection of books with beautifully designed covers, primarily themed around art, design, gardens, and interiors
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