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Editor’s Letter • November 2023

THE WORLD’S LEADING INTERIOR DESIGN DESTINATION • 600+ INTERNATIONAL BRANDS 130+ SHOWROOMS

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What’s in the air this month

Brace for Impact • Sick of square brackets? Punctuate your perimeter with a little more panache by means of David Lipton’s strong supports

Cité Slickers • Soutine, Modigliani, Gauguin – these are just some of the starry names that slunk about the mean streets of 20th-century Paris. Lean streets often were they, too, that housed these artists, and none more so than Cité Falguière, a shabby back road teeming with low-rent studios. Many of these historic havens have since vanished – but not Atelier 11, its peeling paint and slanting walls beloved by scores of urban creatives. Flâneur Tom Jeffreys loiters with intent.

Border Games • Paper plains failing to raise a smile? Perhaps your walls are in need of some more diverting activity. Be they chequers, twisters or, er, mousetraps (see bottom right), there’s sure to be something that cuts through amid this snaking array of wallpaper trims. Ginny Davies and Rose Eaglesfield compete to achieve a marginal victory

Groove is in the Hearth • In and around an ancient barn neighbouring a Neoclassical château in Aquitaine, the funkiest furniture from France (and beyond) struts its stuff before some venerable wallflowers – chimney pieces à la mode when the ancien régime went up in smoke. Gianluca Longo conducts his revolutionary army.

Gathered Rounds • Popping a chestnut out of its spiky green case is sure to prompt many fond memories of frozen fingers and packed pockets. The foraging of these brown cabochons has long provided essential succour – and not just for the soul. One precious pawful, indeed, can add substance and hearty flavour to all manner of meals, from soup to shakes, game to gateaux. Daisy Garnett offers up autumn in a nutshell.

Kernels Mustered • Totally nuts about these crackers? Just get a grip, says Rose Eaglesfield

A Tribe Called Quest

The Smog Clears

Undiscovered Whorls • One of the signal features of Helmuth Theodor Bossert’s An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration is that many of the patterns appearing in the 1928 volume had never been published before. The German art historian argued that, whether daubed on Rome’s Forum or a Ukrainian farm, a mural’s motif power often stems from its off-the-cuff character – and certainly, Mitchell Owens is no stencil pusher

A Lonely Furrow

Second Nature

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

CLICK AND COLLECT • A keen patron of the arts – and an inveterate buyer to boot – the owner of this Georgian former rectory in East Anglia struck up a rapport with decorator Philip Hooper several decades ago. So there was never any question about whose services he’d engage when doing it up. The challenge: to accommodate a lifetime’s worth of spoils, miscellaneous influences and a steady flow of creative guests. Augusta Pownall unpacks the results with wonder.

A SHOW OF HANS • The émigré potter Hans Coper was such an inscrutable soul that we still know surprisingly little about him, except for the bare biographical facts. But a blockbuster sale of ceramics by him and Lucie Rie, his friend and...