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What’s in the air this month

Real Page Turners • Prepare for revolution as David Lipton takes rotating bookcases for a spin

Cast in Outer Darkness • Spent ages thinking about your next colour scheme? Perhaps it’s time to get radically unreflective. Intended for use on wood, metal and plaster, Farrow & Ball’s Dead Flat paint is a super-matt finish, based on an 18th-century original. Its velvety, sheen-free look is something you should be – dimly – aware of, says Gianluca Longo.

The Lever Art Gallery • Picture this: door furniture so exquisitely crafted and tactile each piece could almost be an exhibit. Miranda Sinclair latches on to the most display-worthy examples, from the playful to the patinated and polished. Handle with flair!

Slider House Rules • Prized (and prised open) the world over, oysters are the most sophisticated and sensual of seafoods. But whether you prefer yours grilled with breadcrumbs, wrapped in bacon or straight from the shell, once you acquire the taste it’s quite hard to stop – one swallow, reckons Daisy Garnett, does not a spring, autumn or winter make.

Aw, Shucks! • A seaworthy selection of oyster knives just for you? David Lipton is too kind

Here Be Dragons

Punch-marked Coins and Pepper Pots

Continental Self

A Clamour for Glamour • With the Depression looming large, it’s no surprise that people sought solace in the pearl-lined embrace of the beau monde. Ask and you shall receive: and none answered the call for fantasy and fame quite like Horst. Leafing through his Salute to the Thirties (1971) – a collection of the photographer’s portraits of a star-studded decade – Mitchell Owens raises his coupe to a legendary lensman

Criss-cross Pollination • Once a potent, and vilified, symbol of the Jacobite rebellion, tartan has travelled far beyond its Scottish roots. Queen Victoria used the motifs to mask her Prussian family links, Vivienne Westwood deployed it in a show of punkish defiance and others have explored the gender-fluid possibilities of the kilt. With a new show opening in spring, Robin Muir asks whether any other cloth has ever inspired so many different clans

No Need to Knock

A Harvest of Festivals

Canvas Corsetry

Network • Busola Evans chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

CHRISTIAN’S SYMBOLISM • Compasses, roses and stars were, in their different ways, talismans for Christian Dior. Whether to commemorate the past or ward off bad luck, the couturier incorporated them all into La Colle Noire, the delapidated château in Provence he bought in 1950. It was a cruel twist of fate, then, that after finishing the reconstruction, the progenitor of the New Look died prematurely – though not, reports Amy Fine Collins, before a roll call of luminaries had feasted in its fragrant gardens.

RULING THE WEAVES • Senegal’s artisan-textile industry might easily have sunk about saving it from the threat posed by cheap imports. Thanks to her, there’s now a buoyant without trace but for the persistence of one Aïssa Dione. market in chic manjak, the country’s traditional cloth, and a corner of a city near Dakar is Fearing for its future, the artist and fabric designer set alive once more with the clatter of looms.

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