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Lucy Watson

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  • 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
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    House & Home
    Show me your cat: why pets are community heroes

    The Iowa City Kitty Walk recently went viral. Don’t mock. Its madness belies its power

    A cat with light beige fur and striking blue eyes is sitting behind a window
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    Design
    Design Mumbai: a showcase for Indian creativity

    The city prepares to host the inaugural exhibition of international and Indian work

    A woman stands holding a large piece of red embroidered cloth
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #62: Henry Moore

    Visiting the English sculptor’s farmhouse is a chance to see his massive works in situ and gain a flavour of his life

    An elderly gentleman engrossed in a large art book while sitting on a textured sofa, with artistic objects and furniture in the foreground
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    Interiors
    Danish design on show: Copenhagen festival mixes old and new

    3daysofdesign celebrated the ‘Scandi’ aesthetic with a blend of works from respected names and young aspirants

    An open room with widely placed wooden chairs
  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    House & Home
    The Loewe Foundation Prize takes craft to a new level — but is it art?

    The ceremony in New York hosted by Fran Lebowitz embraced furniture, jewellery, lacquerwork and ceramics

    ‘The Entrophy Reduction of Hundun’ by Wanbing Huang
  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    House & Home
    Chatsworth’s new seats of power: future design in an ancestral home

    An exhibition continues a tradition of commissioning avant-garde work begun by the Duchess of Devonshire in the 1950s

    Installation view of Mirror Mirror, Maker Bench (Hexagon) Reflections on Design at Chatsworth
  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    House & Home Christmas Special 2022
    Handmade decorations make for a crafty Christmas

    Interior designer Matilda Goad’s do-it-yourself ideas turn even a self-confessed Scrooge into a fount of festive cheer

    Paper snowflakes hang from the ceiling in Matilda Goad’s shop/studio
  • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
    House & Home
    ‘Not only cute chairs’: the surprises of Singapore Design Week

    Unusual, often sustainable materials — from dog hair to cow dung — were used to create innovative furnishings

    sets of modern chairs and tables on display at a design fair
  • Friday, 12 November, 2021
    Design
    Whose design is it, anyway? The women creators history ‘forgot’

    Their work was often attributed to male collaborators but now the Vitra Design Museum is dedicating an exhibition to them

    Charlotte Perriand on the chaise longue basculante (1929)
  • Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
    Prime property
    Hot property: five homes for wine lovers

    From a Chianti wine estate to a London flat near the hottest wine bars

  • Saturday, 28 November, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    I Am An Island by Tamsin Calidas — calm and controversy in the Hebrides

    The ideal and the reality of island living is explored in new books by Calidas and Gavin Francis

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    Architecture
    How an architect reinvented a ‘white box’ in a Modernist high-rise

    Ben Allen has created warmth and homeliness in his flat in London’s Keeling House

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    Architecture
    The ‘funny geometry’ of an architect’s dream home

    Resembling a black wood monolith on stilts, this family house built on an infill site is surprisingly whimsical

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    Interiors
    The round, the rotund and the oblong: homeware with curves

    These soft shapes can bring some well-rounded perspective to your home

  • Saturday, 5 September, 2020
    FT Magazine
    Hollis Frampton’s rich, strange photos — from roses to spaghetti

    A rare UK retrospective reveals the compelling playfulness of the artist’s work

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    FT MagazineLondon design special
    How climate change is going to alter London’s gardens

    Hothouse exhibit in London Design Festival showcases plants for capital’s warmer future

  • Friday, 28 August, 2020
    The home in 50 objects
    The home in 50 objects #7: Lantern clock, 1660s

    The clock — one of the earliest types of domestic timekeeping devices — would be placed high on a wall so that the weights would hang down, driving the mechanism

  • Friday, 21 August, 2020
    The home in 50 objects
    The home in 50 objects #6: 1967 Heirloom mug by John Clappison

    The design was created using an innovative screen-printed relief method for Yorkshire company Hornsea Pottery

  • Friday, 24 July, 2020
    House & Home
    ‘Everyone has a plan B’: meet the design students graduating into a pandemic economy

    As graduate shows go online, we talk to five young people struggling to launch careers

  • Friday, 10 July, 2020
    Interiors
    Pack up and go: all the gear for chic summer picnics

    Accessories that will turn your open-air meal into a feast for the eyes

  • Friday, 10 July, 2020
    House & Home
    A masterclass: Picasso and the art of the poster

    The Royal Academy in London is showcasing the artist’s lesser-known body of works — as a prolific designer of lithographs

  • Friday, 19 June, 2020
    House & Home
    The design fairs we missed in lockdown

    Coronavirus forced many cancellations but innovations continue online

    design miami basel DMB19_FUNCTIONAL ART GALLERY
  • Tuesday, 16 June, 2020
    House & Home
    Why I love my rusty, 2ft-wide balcony more than ever

    Lockdown has ensured balconies are no longer a luxury for the young and gardenless

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/Shutterstock (10613250e)
									People applaud at the balcony to show respect to the people working at the frontline combating the COVID-19 pandemic in Brussels, Belgium, April 14, 2020. According to a press release published on Tuesday by the Belgian National Institute of Public Health, 530 new cases have been diagnosed in the past 24 hours, bringing the total of confirmed cases to 31,119; while the 262 new deaths reported have raised the toll to 4,157.
									Belgium Brussels Covid 19 Applause - 14 Apr 2020
  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
    House & Home
    Out of lockdown and straight to Ikea

    The Swedish furniture retailer is back in service for London’s insecure young renters

    As Croydon Ikea reopened, customers were discouraged from touching the merchandise, bags had been disinfected and there were markers on the floor to ensure social distancing
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