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  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    Architect William Smart on David Sedaris, great jackets and his space-age home in Sydney

    The founder of Smart Design Studio talks taste

    WIlliam Smart at home in Sydney with his dog, Digby
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
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    The author loves James Baldwin, French Wordle and enjoying her ‘retirement renaissance’

    Jessica B Harris outside her home in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
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    The executive president of his eponymous brand loves affogato, ivy flat caps and his lucky colour, orange

    Giuseppe Santoni in the living room of his Milan apartment
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn fashion special 2024
    New York style legend Anna Sui talks taste

    The designer loves Yoku Moku cookies, old Seventeen magazines and her signature red lipstick

    Anna Sui at home in New York
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
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    Artist and maker Rio Kobayashi talks taste

    The London-based designer loves cycling, hand-shaped soap and the rules of a Japanese bath

    Rio Kobayashi wears Massimo Osti Studio jacket and trousers at home in Hackney, London
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
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    Lissa Carmona, CEO of design firm Etel, talks taste

    The curator loves minimalism, the Brazilian modernists and her home in the Mantiqueira Mountains

    Lissa Carmona in her living room at home in São Paulo
  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
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    Lykke Li’s black or white, Mr Chow’s moustache, Penelope Tree’s fringe – our Aesthetes share their style go-tos

    Lykke Li at home in Los Angeles
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
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    The London-based philanthropist loves kohl eyeliner, Lalique deer and a dream-filled sleep

    Batia Ofer at home in London
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
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    Recent reads at Courtney Love’s home in London
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
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    Architect Eugene Tssui: ‘I would like to have been a benevolent dictator’

    The architect and Olympian gets pumped on pull-ups, Przewalski’s horse dung and Superman

    Eugene Tssui at home in Emeryville, California
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
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    Eden Revisited novelist Umberto Pasti talks taste

    The writer and celebrated gardener loves begonias, Botticelli’s Primavera and birds of paradise

    Umberto Pasti in the sitting room of his home in Tangier
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
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    The artist loves Warhols, a banging breakfast and the tropical rock of Jimmy Buffett

    Tony Caramanico at home in Montauk, Long Island
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
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    New York chef and TV host Sophia Roe talks taste

    Diamond Crystal kosher salt, spoons and Donna Summer’s fringe top her list of likes 

    Sophia Roe at home in New York
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
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    Dutch painter Peggy Kuiper talks taste

    The Amsterdam-based artist loves “oversized fits”, early-morning dips and Cy Twombly’s Bacchus series

    Peggy Kuiper in the studio at her home in Amsterdam
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
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    Model, muse and novelist Penelope Tree talks taste

    The fashion legend loves Australian art, her birdsong app and Co-op champagne

  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
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    Chef Francis Mallmann: ‘True life starts at 60’

    The open-fire cook is a ‘bit of a lady’, loves Swiss chocolate and writes with a Meisterstück by Montblanc

    Mallmann at home, wearing one of his custom-made berets
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
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    The Elder Statesman’s Greg Chait talks taste

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

    Chait wears a custom coat by Husbands Paris at his home in Malibu
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    FT SeriesThe HTSI Dream Issue: guest edited by Yinka Ilori
    Fashion designer Walé Adeyemi talks taste

    The founder of streetwear label B-side loves rollerskating, fluorescent pens and his Coca-Cola drinks cooler

    Walé Adeyemi in his north London home. Behind him are artworks depicting (clockwise from bottom left) Biggie Smalls, Muhammad Ali and Barack Obama, the latter by artist Benjamin Wachenje
  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
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    The co-founder of F1-inspired fashion label AN-Y1 loves karaoke, cheesecake and her Cartier Crash

    Anu Hinduja at home in London
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Style
    Milliner and artist Maryam Keyhani talks taste

    The Berlin-based creative plumps for Persian pickles, Larmandier-Bernier champagne and ‘little hits of silly’

    Maryam Keyhani at home in Berlin, with headpieces from her archives
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Interiors
    Michael Bargo talks taste

    The interior designer loves ironed sheets, Yohji Yamamoto and Temo, his Mexican chihuahua

    Michael Bargo at home in New York with (on left) his lamp by David Lynch
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    Music
    St Vincent talks taste

    The musician Annie Clark loves flasher coats, food candles and phone calls 

    St Vincent at home in Los Angeles
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    HTSIThe HTSI Paris special
    Serpent à Plume’s Alexander Rash talks taste

    The founder of the cult cocktail bar loves ice cream, a 9in point collar and running along the Seine

    Alexander Rash at home in Paris
  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI spring menswear special 2024
    The Dunhill creative director’s black book of style

    Simon Holloway talks Brideshead Revisited, Yorkshire tea and “good old British tailoring”

    Simon Holloway at home in London; on the wall are photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Film
    Poor Things co-production designer Shona Heath talks taste

    The Oscar-winning art director loves geraniums, fish fingers and Ace Ventura’s trousers

    Shona Heath at home in London
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