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The World of Interiors

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Editor’s Letter

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Blanket Statement • Whether strictly Welsh or simply inspired by the nation’s throws, this broad selection of Cambrian-style comforts certainly covers David Lipton in glory

Shadow Ministers • What’s your policy position on naked flames in the house? If you’re in the aye lobby, why not reshuffle candelabras and hand-held sconces for the winter recess. Table-based ones banish the gloom in any chamber, while a portable number is ideal for crossing the floor at night (or indeed for early-day motions). Special adviser Rose Eaglesfield calls for a free vote.

Paper Chase • Before settling in west Dorset, printer and painter Hugh Dunford Wood spent a lifetime in search of his artistic voice. Markers along the trail have taken many forms, including sage words from a much-loved fellow creative and clues left in the sublime landscape he’s called home for 20 years. Grace McCloud follows his footsteps.

Stick ’n’ Mix • Have your walls become a little too ‘matchy-matchy’ and stuck on repeat? Time, perhaps, to seek out two or more papers – geometric or botanic – whose patterns will perform a polyrhythmic polka on your peepers. Embracing her inner maximalist, Marianne Cotterill establishes a fast-paste environment.

Hot off the Press • ‘In an unexpected turn of events, print is the future,’ proclaims our digital director Elly Parsons in a brazen attempt, it seems, to render her job null and void. On reflection, she probably should have used a pen name for this… Anna Logue?

Talley Ho! • André Leon Talley was an ebullient trailblazer in the realm of style, as a new exhibition shows by way of his clothes. It’s left Hamish Bowles hooting and hollering

Turban Legends

King of the Hill

Hydra Powered

First-Place Finnish

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

HIGH PROFILE • The instantly recognisable silhouette of Trellick Tower, which looms over west London, now contains a revamped maisonette – louche and ‘trip-alicious’ – courtesy of Adam Bray. Answering the call of a client returning from America, the droll decorator has done some blue-sky thinking to make the tight footprint as airy as possible. Augusta Pownall delights in her buzzard’s-eye view.

MATTA IN HAND • Six decades ago, the mononymous painter Matta saved an abandoned 18th-century convent in Italy, drawing on his architectural background to transform its 50 rooms into a singular home for himself and his art – which he collected almost as keenly as he did wives. Now it’s the daughter from the Chilean’s fifth and final marriage who’s ensuring it all survives. Text: Marella Caracciolo Chia.

LACOSTE EFFECTIVE • Far from cleaving to the clinical white you’d expect in a hospital, Henry Lacoste realised maximum visual bang for buck at the Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation in Brussels. It’s an eye-popping achievement made viable largely by Marbrite, a marmoreal lookalike in more affordable opaque glass. Bertrand Raison is fully restored by the architect’s panacea.

LOCK NEST • Tim Walker’s canal-side cottage in Hackney would barely be recognisable to the Buddhist women’s commune that once meditated there. Even so, the place still feels wholly zen thanks to...