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Contributors

Editor’s Letter

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Double Décor

To Have and to Fold

The Wizards of Oz • Modernising Melbourne’s massive Ian Potter State Theatre, with its ruby slipper-box interiors, called for lion hearts and many skilled hands.  So who are the magicians behind it all? Stephen Crafti lifts the curtain. Photography: Gavin Green

Lay of the Land

Tasty Testers • Feel like you’ve been passed from pillar – or maybe pillow – to four-poster in your quest for a bed that’s at once stately and cocooning? Well, sleep easy because Ruth Sleightholme has tried the most inviting examples for splendour as well as size. Photography: Christopher Horwood

Stars in Our Eyes • Whether shaped by Taoist priests, Renaissance astronomers or Cold War cosmonauts, our representations of the universe are often determined by mythological beliefs and earthly ambitions. As a new exhibition on celestial cartography opens in London, we asked an assortment of contemporary artists and thinkers to choose a ‘night map’ from the Sunderland Collection that they find especially resonant. It’s black-sky thinking…

Excess Fayre • The ornate trinkets and souvenirs that make the multigenerational migrant house a home are anathema to Modernism’s obsession with the minimal. Throw the design book out, says Seetal Solanki, and celebrate these gloriously more-is-more marvels for everything they are

A Deep Sense of Belongings • After 18 years and sundry intercontinental moves, Hamish Bowles and his treasured possessions finally meet again. A hoarder, you say? No, a man fulfilled

Holiday Roundup • Illustrated non-fiction, recommended by Damian Thompson

Unstable Mates

Suns Rising

Network

VISITOR'S BOOK

STAPLE-Y HOME

THE SAUCER APPRENTICES

TEXAS HELD 'EM

DOUBLES ALL ROUND

BARRIER RELIEF

NOT'S LANDING

JAGGED EDGINESS

FIELD MARSHAL

AFTERWORD

Address Book • Suppliers featured in this issue

Inspiration

MADE TO MEASURE

THE SEASON OF INDULGENCE

THE BIGGER PICTURE

TONES, TEXTURES AND TRIMMINGS

THE INTERIORS PORTFOLIO

Soft Peeks • It will never excel at whipping up meringue or mayonnaise, but Claes Oldenburg’s malleable mixer from the 1960s focused the gaze on grotesque consumerism and the deflated American dream. Argentinian artist Pablo Bronstein is anything but whisk-averse