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Editor’s Letter • January 2025

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Hearth Transplant • Getting hot and bothered trying to find a new firescreen? David Lipton’s favourite flame-foilers will leave you flushed with success

Pet Projects • Lapping up the chance to finally write that novel? Getting your claws into a tax return? However tough the task, use stationery that elicits purrs of pleasure. Of course, you could achieve your goals without the help of a classic desk lamp, Japanese scissors or a gold-plated pencil sharpener, but why aim to win by a whisker? Especially as office supply guy Gianluca Longo has desktop desirables for every Dick, Harry – or tom.

Frilled to the Brim • Keen to top off your textiles with trim and tassels that stand head and shoulders above the rest? We’re on it like a bonnet. Packing passementerie into hats of all shapes and sizes, we’ve fashioned fringe into the forms of papal mitre and Napoleonic bicorne, jester’s cockscomb and cardinal’s galero. David Lipton celebrates another feather in his cap.

There Will Be Bloods • When the skies are at their greyest, the mercury is at its lowest and our cravings for light, colour and joy are reaching almost medical levels of intensity, along comes the antidote to winter: blood oranges. The sight of great pyramids of them in street markets gladdens the hibernal heart, and with their jewel-like colours and exquisite sweetness they are always a welcome foretaste of summer. Daisy Garnett’s got the juice.

Easy Peasy Squeezy • Fresh from her latest extraction-packed shopping adventure, Rose Eaglesfield has all the juice you could possibly want on a kitchen-cupboard essential

New Year’s Yves • Using his own collection, Hamish Bowles has curated a display of Saint Laurent’s couture

Hung, Drawn and Courted

Anon and On He Goes

Churches for Urchins

Reign of Shine

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

Paris Déco Off… • The «rendez-vous» of international interior designers and decoration editors

VISITOR’S BOOK

ECHO LOCATION • Thanks to its mirror-lined ceilings and walls, the Parisian pied-à-terre of designer Alexandre de Betak has you seeing double quite straightforwardly. But other reverberations are evident too: the hits of Deco and Bauhaus here and there, the repeat beats of pierre de Bourgogne, even the reflective surfaces themselves – all bear traces of places past. ‘It is weird,’ says the owner: ‘There is no trend that I have outgrown.’ Sally Singer sounds out the space.

MANTRA RAY • In Dar es Salaam, this temple for the Arya Samaj community – a Hindu offshoot – acted as a beacon for South Asians after many migrated to Tanzania to construct the Mombasa to Kampala railway. Both lodestar and sanctuary, the religious complex also protected its celebrants during the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution, when Indians faced looting and violence. Despite a dwindling congregation, its role as a lighthouse in a strange land continues unabated.

RÊVE GAUCHE • An academic-turned-antique dealer of both Modernist and deeply meditative bent, Marc-Antoine Patissier has conjoined two apartments near his alma mater on Paris’s Left Bank to create a dreamy, solipsistic space partly inspired by a Pullman...