Aimee Farrell

From a ceramic leopard-print toothpick holder to a brushed metal candelabra, ‘expect the unexpected’ is the MO of these shows

The French creative loves blueberries, Bruce Springsteen and his Maison Bonnet glasses

Designers share their tips for perennial tenants. First? Make it your own

The life of a tenant can be — ironically — rent asunder in an instant, as I know well from experience

‘Soft Worlds, Sharp Edges’ plays with expectations in its showcase of the work of 30 women in lighting, furniture and textiles

At their home-workshop in Dorset, Jake and Keiko Hobson are bringing the Japanese philosophy of gardening to life

Mireia Arasa Coll, Noam Griegst and Ilaria Icardi are keeping the heritage alive and finding a new audience

Despite a rapidly shifting market, the New York fashion brand’s appeal has not waned. Its founders explain why

Martina Mondadori is welcoming visitors into her family’s Renzo Mongiardino-designed private home for a craft exhibition curated by New York tastemaker Deborah Needleman

The former show director has turned his hand to producing sensational interiors

The Milanese interior designer blends old-world refinement with avant-garde surprise

The west London studio’s design expertise spans wallpapers, carpets and rugs

Utopian visions from the past continue to propel design

She may be known for subtle shades, but her new paint range has surprisingly vibrant depths

The scaled-down models, aviaries and doll’s houses are the highlight at Homo Faber, the Luca Guadagnino art-directed craft fair opening this weekend

Throwing shine among the shadows, mirrored interiors have dazzled since ancient times. In Rome, Emperor Nero’s Domus Aurea – the Golden House – sparkled with fragments of mirror and glass. And a century before the Sun King’s Galerie des Glaces spectacularly showcased the French glass-making industry in 1684, the Mirror Hall of Golestan Palace, with its reflective grid ceiling and elaborate symmetry, shone as a beacon of brightness in Tehran. In Mirrors: Reflections of Style, author Paula Phipps…

“Who isn’t excited to sleep in a four-poster bed?” asks Charlotte Freemantle, the co-owner of Jamb, Pimlico Road’s purveyor of fireplaces, lighting, antique furnishings – and now four-poster beds. “It’s the stuff of dreams.” That sense of fantasy and romance was front and centre in Freemantle’s mind when it came to her first decorating job at Aldourie Castle, a resplendent and rentable 12-bedroomed fort on the shores of Loch Ness. As the project progressed, what kept Freemantle up at night was…

What is the power of place in defining who we are, and how we dress? This is the question at the core of two of spring/summer 2024’s most compelling collections. Erdem and Chanel presented a tale of two chatelaines — respectively, Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Marie-Laure de Noailles, the Surrealist arts patron and brilliantly unconventional collector — whose homes became a defining influence on their stories. “I always knew I wanted to create a collection around Deborah,” says…

Since her teens, the English interior designer Flora Soames has scoured Provençal flea markets, East Anglian antiques shops, car-boot sales, auction houses and dealers in search of decorative treasures, often from the 18th century. “I’ve picked up old gold threads, lengths of damask and French patchwork quilts,” she says of her obsession. “There wasn’t always a plan. I was merely collecting things that appealed to me and that I wanted to live with.” For Soames, collecting is one of life’s most…

Embroidery is a lifelong obsession of mine. I wasn’t brought up with sewing – my mother couldn’t sew – but I’ve always been drawn to it. I’m like a magpie when it comes to decorative textiles. I spent much of my life thinking I couldn’t sew. As a teenager at secondary school, I spent a whole term trying to add a zip to the denim skirt I was making. I was hopeless at sewing machines; I couldn’t manage them. It’s only now, in my 60s, that I’ve found the confidence – and I have the zeal of the con…