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Editor’s Letter • August 2024

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Ruff Sleeping • Does a peep at these beds spark dreams of sticks, squirrels and sirloin? Then, says David Lipton, you ain’t nothing but a hound dog

Bolts from the Deep Blue • Sun, sea, sand, rolls of outdoor fabric… Will the plains take the strain, and are those beach-ready patterns really anything to write a postcard home about? Only one way to find out! After packing all the holiday essentials, including needles and thread, Gianluca Longo and Marianne Cotterill head to Mustique to create their own little material world.

Tangerine Cream • In his first monthly column, Hamish Bowles goes shopping in the Moroccan city

Writing home • THE WORLD OF INTERIORS WRITING PRIZE

Grand Openings • On his quest to discover the heights of Rajasthani craft, fashion designer Erdem Moralıoğlu found many spectacular points of access – quite literally, be they great palace arches, mausoleum gates or tiny shrine doors. It’s not a bad way in, as he himself proves in this entrancing photo-essay.

What’s the Scoop? • Alchemy of a culinary kind unfolds when you mix then freeze eggs, milk, cream and sugar with certain fruit or nuts. The result: a silky ice cream that will slip down all too easily after each and every weekday supper. So whether you’re a gooseberry-and-custard guy or a roasted-pistachio kind of woman, do yourself a flavour, says Daisy Garnett – get churning.

Glace Slippers • Make light work of dishing out ice cream with these kitchen-drawer essentials, as tried for size by the tub-thumping Rose Eaglesfield

Miss Whiplash • With its swooning, asymmetrical curves steeped in ‘femininity’, Art Nouveau had all but died out by World War I – until a brief revival in the 1960s. Surfing this second S-shaped wave came a book by the high-society decorative artist Martin Battersby, emphasising the style’s inventiveness and internationalism. Mitchell Owens submits to the discipline

Neutra Observers

Corps Values

High in Fibre

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

HIGHWAY ROBBERY • Dating back to the seventh century, Cairo’s vast necropolis is set to be demolished to make way for a multi-lane road. The scene of a dizzying array of architectural styles, the City of the Dead is home to kings and caliphs, rogues and revolutionaries – as well as a significant living population of caretakers. Hussein Omar, whose own ancestors lie buried there, adds his voice to the chorus of outrage.

PAISLEY PARKED • Jacopo Etro would have been forgiven for using his 1920s apartment on the Left Bank of Paris to showcase his family firm’s most famous textile design. Instead, the style adviser has eschewed all that in favour of fabrics and furniture more befitting its Art Deco bones. Anyway, he tells Lily Le Brun, after a day at the atelier the eyes can only take so many teardrop motifs before they explode. Photography: Ricardo Labougle

PORTUGUESE-Y DOES IT • After deciding to move to Lisbon, paint specialist Pedro da Costa Felgueiras was quick to find an 18th-century apartment in his laid-back former stomping ground. So far so breezily uncomplicated. But then things turned really challenging – even for such a...