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Editor’s Letter • November 2024

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Fantastic Beasts • What is a home without a pet pot or pot pet? David Lipton rounds up a class menagerie of domestic animals decorative and functional

THE WORLD OF INTERIORS WRITING PRIZE • Nearly half a year ago, we at The World of Interiors issued a hopeful call for submissions to our first ever writing prize. Since, we’ve been blown away by the range and richness of the responses we received. But now the wait is over. As competition director Elly Parsons announces, it’s time to unveil our two winners and the runners-up

The End, by Tayiba Sulaiman • UK WINNER

We Could Never Live Here Again, by Mary Bergman • US WINNER

Untitled, by Jack Greenlees • UK RUNNER-UP

I Have a Fantasy Where Everyone I Love Sits at the Same Dining-room Table, by Janae Lu • US RUNNER-UP

Writing Home, by Lee Louise • UK RUNNER-UP

Domestic Bliss, by Nick Spain • US RUNNER-UP

Lichen Minded • Using only yarn and a basic sewing machine, Amanda Cobbett renders fungi, bark and moss, stones and their encrustations with stunning verisimilitude. The work has garnered her an international following and, recently, a commission from the Duke of Buccleuch on his Scottish estates. Tania Compton is our overseer of the spores.

Haul of Mirrors • Shopping for a looking-glass can be a disorientating task. Should you go for classic or contemporary, free-standing or wall-hung? And how does convex compare with a crenellated frame or totally cosmic bulbous? Mercifully, Miranda Sinclair has prepared a whole gallery of concentric treats for you to carefully reflect on.

Couch Surfers • Dreaming of sinking into a sumptuous new sofa or daybed? Before you go sailing off in the direction of the nearest furniture showroom, allow us to float a few options by you – a whole raft of them, in fact, each one riding the crest of the new wave aesthetically. On location in Lake Maggiore, Gianluca Longo invites you all to lie back and enjoy the gentle lap-lap of luxury. Oh, but this is just divano, we hear you cry…

’Shroom at the Top • Few mushrooms can rival the imperial ceps – aka porcini. Cooked fresh with butter or olive oil and herbs, and attended by little more than toast, rice or pasta, these meaty marvels become a feast fit for a king. But they dry superbly well too, making them a much-prized, long-lasting kitchen staple. Daisy Garnett doffs her cap.

Let the Fungi Begin • No need to go foraging for kit prior to that mushroom-picking expedition – Rose Eaglesfield has already rooted out the best for you

Monarch’s Butterflies • As embroiderers flit about the King’s gardens, Hamish Bowles finds the golden thread

Apropos Calico

Roaming Network

Oil Change

Material Girl

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

BIJOU BUT BOUGIE • The owner of this tiny apartment in the centre of Paris, a connoisseur of art and antiques, freely admits that he possesses far more things than he could ever hope to display within its off-white walls. But what has made it out of storage wouldn’t shame the Louvre just down the road – be it Louis XVI gilt-mounted furniture or his many marble...