Victoria Woodcock

An invigorated movement of estate owners opening their doors is proving a crucible for creative inspiration and giving properties a soulful new purpose

Jamb’s Will Fisher and Charlotte Freemantle are putting the soul and skill back into reproductions — from neoclassical to art deco

She started off creating office schemes in Silicon Valley but her elegant, offbeat and painterly aesthetic saw her move into private homes. Her style — centred around art — is now attracting the culture crowd

The Duke of Richmond is opening a major art foundation on his estate. It’s not the usual ‘sculpture in the park’, he says

From a Victorian brewery in Somerset, Emma Peascod and her husband Tobias have created a poetic ‘joint manifestation’

The interior designer’s Parisian studio is a smart distillation of his tactile, sexy style

As the Japanese game approaches its 30th birthday, its rarest editions are worth fortunes

From her Anjou farmhouse, Anne Corbière fashions curtains, cushions and artworks from her tactile fabrics, coveted by everyone from Chanel to Tiffany to British brand Ochre

The work of British designer Fanny Shorter is sometimes floral, but never flouncy, often whimsical but never ‘run-away-from-it twee’

Unconventional interpretations of the design classic are making sexy, sculptural statements in chic homes around the globe

Images of the universe are in hot demand. Could the prices go astronomical?

The metaverse is changing the face of contemporary design

A grand Georgian town house — The Spectator’s former offices — is a riot of bold-patterned wallpaper that calls to mind Arts and Crafts, the Bloomsbury Group and Wiener Werkstätte

The artist’s monumental works are an ode to his Montana mountain home

The actress and Adir Abergel discuss the bangs, blow-dries and bowl cuts that have kept them close for more than 20 years

The 19th-century Gothic Revival church is a modern-day domestic sanctuary for the Brooklyn-based artist

“Live the way you drive . . . ” Slowly? Cautiously? On the edge of inevitable breakdown, surrounded by the crumbs of endless children’s snacks? Clearly, these words are not aimed at me and my hand-me-down Renault Clio. In the context of the Bentley Motors website, however, they have more appealing connotations: being encompassed in sleek curvilinear lines; encircled in cutting-edge design; and cosseted in luxury leather. “Live the way you drive,” the brand suggests, “with a range of handmade fu…

The cashmere designer has a soft spot for surfboards, serious hi-fi and a 1964 Chevy Impala

Deep in the basement of London’s Somerset House, in the studio of artist, dancer and choreographer Florence Peake, giant canvases unfurl to reveal a cascade of figures. “The paintings are made with a group of dancers – drawing around bodies, working with line- and mark-making,” says Peake. Inspired by her performance at the National Gallery in 2021, the series Factual Actual also involves the canvases being “hung up and flung about” and dancers breaking out of frames. It’s a vibrant and somewhat…

At her Warsaw home, Maria Katarzyna Krętowska is surrounded by memories of her grandmother — the Polish artist Barbara Levittoux-Swiderska (1933-2019). Her former studio remains dotted with collages and paintings, as well as small examples of the textile pieces she started making in the 1960s — sculptural, nature-inspired and often large-scale forms that at the time were groundbreaking. “Her works can be so minimalistic and yet have huge impact,” says Katarzyna Krętowska, recalling how the dram…