Interiors
Polychrome monograph: Sophie Ashby’s new book traces a colourful career
An aversion to white-walled minimalism has made Sophie Ashby one of the most distinctive and desired designers around. Studio Ashby: Home, Art, Soul gives readers an insight into what unites her diverse projects
The spare, Corbusian interiors of the late Georges Volckrick’s house in Brussels
Georges Volckrick’s 1950s home in Brussels has been rescued by his daughter with Nakashima furniture and Corbusian hues. Bertrand Raison hails masterly, if modest, Modernism
Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh furniture rediscovered
Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier were instrumental in the design of Chandigarh in northern India, including the furniture for the city’s public buildings. A recent public exhibition of a singular private collection prompts a retelling of a monumental Modernist design story
Awesome undertaking: a chapel of rest turned studio in Surrey
Creator of bespoke furniture, lighting and sculpture, artist Ian Bishop can finally wrest in peace now he’s ensconced in his slightly unorthodox workspace
Anne Corbière adorns the walls of Chanel with a tweed Midas touch
As a weaver of innovative high-end textiles, especially those incorporating metallic threads, Anne Corbière is second to none. Collaborating with the greats of fashion and interiors, from Balenciaga to Brandolini, the American-born craftswoman has built a glittering career
A last look at an almost-forgotten Parisian apartment above the Musée Bourdelle
Before it is put to a rather different purpose, we take a final sweep around the apartment of Rhodia Dufet-Bourdelle, which teems with the works and collections of her sculptor father
Artists Heath and Tais Wae have made their home in among 150 acres of Australian scrubland
Complete with Japanese tea room, Heath and Tais Wae have found peace in their wild surroundings
Gaia Servadio's scintillatingly free-spirited home
The writer Gaia Servadio was never one to bow to convention. There was her haute-bohemian home for one – a former boarding house in what was still a louche part of London. And then there was her wide social circle. Francis Bacon, Philip Roth, Fleet Street hacks, Russian dissidents… They all got to savour the saloniste’s cooking and peppery conversation, not to mention her vast, idiosyncratic murals. As sometime guest Marella Caracciolo Chia recalls, anything might happen at Bloomfieldia – and often did
Czech posts: the turbulent 1940s were no barrier to architectural experimentation in three almost-forgotten summer houses
Three unique summer houses, designed by the architects František Cubr and Zdeněk Pokorný on the Seč Dam in Czechia, are early examples of the architects’ important vernacular work
Sekt is the new Swedish design brand with an old-school approach
Lovisa Hansson and Milan Kosovic, the duo behind new Malmö-based design brand Sekt, are on a mission to design the antiques of the future