All too often plants are demoted from mysterious organisms to passive garden ornaments. Henbane, mandrake and other ‘witching herbs’ remind us to carefully respect their power and magic
Contented clutter abounds in a bourgeois dream home, complete with eccentric touches and artfully posed objets
Amid the Baroque luxury is an eclectic — and at times brilliantly bizarre — collection that mixes Swedish, Dutch and Flemish masters with holiday souvenirs and everyday ephemera
My husband is tidy. I am not. But what started as a simple passive-aggressive back-and-forth escalated when my husband started leaving stuff on the landing
Considering Modernism too austere for America, the MoMA architect blended eastern, western and classical influences in this Connecticut home
Turn off the overhead light and bring a warm glow to interiors
The answer is plants that thrive, and so make us smile — here are three that lead the way
‘I am the Last Woman Object’ declared Nicola L. in 1969. But 55 years later, stereotypes remain and women continue to create body furniture to challenge uncomfortable truths
Over 50 years, the Japanese illustrator has accumulated a world-class archive. Now he has to decide what to do with it
The artist has done his bit to advance the cultural kudos of the houseplant — and vice versa
The creation of this centre of culture in the capital was a postwar triumph. Now, new residential developments hope to build upon the regeneration that the Festival of Britain ignited
Florence and James Kennedy’s 200-year-old home in Cornwall is both a working flower farm, and a minimalist sanctuary
From a Maldives villa with skateboard ramps, zip lines and bowling alley to an East Sussex barn conversion with a treetop play area
New York City appointed a ‘rat tsar’ and launched ‘rat academies’ — its inaugural National Urban Rat Summit aimed to offer fresh insights to help landlords and renters
The Italian designer takes over Maja Hoffmann’s London town house for an immersive retrospective
Though in my youth I never found any doors into other worlds, as an adult my dreams are providing more than I can possibly open
If you love somewhere you once lived, cherish the memories. But don’t be tempted to go back . . . seeing what the new owners have done rarely works out well
Whether you’re looking for cool pools or spicy casinos, these exclusive pads will come up trumps
The ceramicist has combined China’s ‘white gold’ clay with artistic inspiration from Kew Gardens to create monumental floral pots for a new exhibition
RHS Hyde Hall’s dry clay soil shows us what the gardens of the future could look like — to varying effect
The ‘dower principle’ of passing on a residence while still alive can have advantages if you’re trying to minimise IHT — but there are pitfalls
In the third in a series, the ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ judge plants damsons, figs, apples and walnuts — a gift to future generations
The zeal for converting grand country estates into multiple high-spec residences is reaching a new high — opening up the market for life-hack lords of the manor
The artist has turned an old French schoolhouse into a gloriously sprawling home
A solitary vase, a shrine to family photographs, an unruly mess of keys, knick-knacks and unpaid bills . . . whatever sits above the fireplace is compellingly revelatory
