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Editor’s Letter • June 2024

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ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Writing home • THE WORLD OF INTERIORS WRITING PRIZE

Seats of Yearning • Longing to take a load off, bolstered by upholstery? We do have an elegant pew or two for you to view, says David Lipton

Bless Our Cotton Stocks • The blossom-strewn glazed calico known as chintz has long been synonymous with WoI, whether sewn into a skirt for a Georgian chair or draped from the canopy of a country-house four-poster. Picking from the current crop (plus a few classics), Miranda Sinclair reasserts the magazine’s floral authority.

Ware It All Started • Our first ever styling feature back in 1981 plated up an array of antique duochrome china of the cobalt-and-white kind. Call us sentimental, but we felt the occasion warranted treating you all to the same fine service. Adding in some modern pieces too, a misty-eyed Gianluca Longo marries old, new and borrowed blues.

Pod of Gold • Follow the rainbow to its end and you may well find that most rare and delicious of bounties: a pile of peas, gleaming like green pearls. Such a prize demands snaffling on the spot, or else hurrying home into princely pairings – think burrata, braised duck or lettuce. But, in lieu of the grower’s trove (often a pipe dream), there are the frozen fellows: more plentiful and every bit as precious. Daisy Garnett crowns herself roi des pois.

Holey Grails • In search of a colander to more beautifully baptise your peas and other produce? Pore over Rose Eaglesfield’s perforated preferiti

Snap Impressions

What’s the Use?

Peek Practitioner • When in the early 20th century Margherita Arlina Hamm perched on the sofas of Broadway and West End stars, notebook in hand, to share with her curious readers the thespians’ choice of wallpaper and curtains, they were only too happy to comply. But, discovers Mitchell Owens, the reporter’s keen eye sets her apart from the bland celebrity journalism de nos jours

Visual Pause

Pride and Joy

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

Art & Antiques • JUNE 2024

What’s in the air in the art world

Fresh to the Market • In the 1950s, when the antiques world was steeped in glossy mahogany and oil paintings with provenance, along came the Lacquer Chest to buck the trend for grandeur. Specialising in domestic and decorative items overlooked by the trade, the shop has been supplying quirky collectables from its Kensington site since the days when London swung. With owners unflustered by fashion, cult status has long been assured, says Tree Sherriff.

JAZZ HANDS • The hot-hued, geometric paintings of Atta Kwami were strongly influenced by music, especially of the improvisational kind – and it was in his terrace house in Loughborough that the late Ghanaian artist found his working rhythm alongside his wife, Pamela Clarkson Kwami. The printmaker and teacher explains to Vanessa Peterson how the syncopation of sharing ideas and commenting on each other’s pieces-in-progress made for a simpatico studio life.

SELFLESS LEE • Whenever artist and connoisseur...