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Editor’s Letter • July 2024

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Container Yourselves • An eyecatching planter will help lend a cultivated air to one’s terrace, orangery or lawn. David Lipton digs out his favourite specimens

Tied for First • It’s a knotty problem: how to give garden lounging all the airs and graces of indoors? Bound to serve, we’ve roped in the best of the alfresco for your delight and delectation – though you’d be hard-pressed to choose a victor among these grandstanders of the veranda. Gianluca Longo lassoes the luxe.

Kiln with Kindness • Conceived in the shadow of a nursery from the 1720s, Hoxton Gardenware trains young Eastenders to make hand-thrown terracotta vessels in small batches. For his forward-thinking programme, ceramicist Aaron Angell has mined London’s past, leading his apprentices to recreate classic silhouettes of the ancient Roman and Victorian eras. Pot purists, such as Amy Merrick, can only rejoice.

Lord, Preserve Us • From raspberries to redcurrants, certain summer fruits are just begging to be turned into jewel-coloured jam when you’re faced with a surfeit. It’s beautifully straightforward, says Daisy Garnett. Simply stick to a few principles and – as she knows only too well – be careful if charging about with jars of the stuff in a handbag.

The Preserves Team • Has your jam pot suffered an injury? Bring one of these fellas off the bench. Rose Eaglesfield lines them up in a 3-3-3 formation

Flight Paths

Touching the Void

Land of the Rising Soane • Neoclassical, Gothic, even Art Nouveau… You’d be surprised at the architectural styles that appeared on the horizon after Japan opened up to the West in the 1860s. Now, some might see that as a disavowal of the country’s rich heritage, as this illuminating 1995 tome makes clear – not Mitchell Owens, however. But then Meiji that’s because he’s a true Nipponophile…

Prickly Situation

Supernatural Selection

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

FLORA EXPLORER • Not content with being one of the great photographers of the early 20th century, Edward Steichen used his perfectionist eye to become a doyen of delphiniums, growing them and, remarkably, showing them at Moma in 1936. Paying homage to that exhibition, Tim Walker took his camera to Stourhead’s Pantheon in Wiltshire and captured there the species’ spiky superabundance. Amy Sherlock arranges these two rhapsodies in blue

MIND OVER MADDER • Nature’s colours give meaning to the work of Yto Barrada, and many of the textile artist’s experiments blossomed into life at the Mothership, her dyeing complex in Tangier close to where she grew up. Here, in a community setting, the Brooklyn-based practitioner ponders indigenous material culture while tending to the fungi and flowers, roots and lichens that make her fabric pieces fabulous.

RED CITY REFUGE • Nicknamed La Rossa both for the colour of its buildings and its left-wing political orientation, Bologna has been home to Grazia Gazzoni Frascara for some 60 years. Her haven in the bustling city is an opulent ground-floor flat in the 18th-century Palazzo Agucchi – one that gives on to the rose beds, fountains and bay topiaries of a classical giardino all’Italiano. ‘My garden is...