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Interiors

  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Luke Edward Hall
    Sparking joy: the best fireside accessories

    From huge log baskets to hand-forged tools, there’s enormous aesthetic pleasure to be had in cosying up around the hearth

    A cosy attic bedroom with wood-panelled wall and ceiling, and a fireplace with seashells covering the entire surround. The double bed has a floral upholstered headboard, and a homemade quilt lies at its foot. A fire is burning in the grate
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    HTSI
    Why retrofuturism looks so now

    Utopian visions from the past continue to propel design

    Hakola furniture in the nurses’ house at Paimio Sanatorium in Finland
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Farewell, Guinevere: the feted London antiques shop

    It’s the end of an era for the trendsetting ‘cavern of delights’ that has enticed celebrity and designer clients since 1963

  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    FT Series
    The world’s best house museums

    Step inside the homes of some of the world’s most illustrious writers, artists and other historical personalities — and see how interiors can reveal interior lives

  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Design
    HTSI autumn design issue 2024

    This season’s special features Carlo Scarpa, meme furniture and Apple’s vision of the future

    Pierre Cardin’s home The Palais Bulles, designed by Antti Lovag
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    A glimpse into the lavish London homes lost in time

    Remember ‘vogue Regency’ or ‘Curzon Street baroque’? No? A collection of photographs of the capital’s long-forgotten drawing rooms offers a peek into the extraordinary lives and tastes of past generations

    A black and white image of a large, lavishly decorated room, with an Islamic theme
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    Curtain twitching — but make it chic

    Once a symbol of petty parochialism, lace curtains fell from favour. Their comeback aims to celebrate the craft once again

    Potted plants decorate a window sill. Behind the glass is a pretty lace curtain
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Art Basel Paris 2024
    FAB Paris: ‘The beginning of the rebirth’

    Can the revamped grande dame of antiques fairs inspire a new generation of collectors?

    Photograph taken inside a spectacular Italianate villa that is filled with antique furniture and sculptures, with the Mediterranean visible in the background through the floor-to-ceiling windows
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Art Basel Paris 2024
    Giant rhubarb tables and Virgil Abloh thrones at Design Miami Paris

    The fair returns to the 18th-century Hôtel de Maisons with a vibrant melting pot of classic and contemporary creations

    Three angular, modernistic sculptures, made in white concrete that looks like marble, against a frieze of huge, black, wall-mounted tiles
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    Travels in interiors hyperreality

    The metaverse is changing the face of contemporary design

    Villa Ortizet, in Lozère, by ZYVA Studio and Charlotte Taylor – all images throughout are computer-generated
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    Margaret Howell gives Lucienne Day new lustre

    Day shook up the world of textiles with her bold, Modernist prints — now her lustrous ‘mosaics’ are the subject of an exhibition at the fashion designer’s store

    A woman with grey hair sits surrounded by fabric artwork, mainly in black and maroon
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    At Home with the FT
    Peter Schlesinger: ‘It was drug-ridden back then — but a wonderful place’

    In 1978, the ceramicist arrived in New York, buying an apartment in an old girdle factory in the Flatiron district. Much has changed, but his home remains true to the area’s creative past

    An older man dressed in jeans and a blue top leans against an orange sofa in a large living room. A painting of flowers can be seen on the wall behind him, and a drinks trolly with several glass decanters is beside him
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    Jumbo, the design duo who’ve turned dumbing down into an art form

    Meet New York’s new meme lords

    Monling Lee (left) and Justin Donnelly in the Jumbo studio in New York City. At their feet are Fortune chairs, $1,175 each, hellerfurniture.com. In the centre is a scale model of the Sport sofa
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    The best thing about sci-fi films? The corridors

    Take a design cue from a movie masterpiece this season 

    An ocatgonal corridor in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Designer Charles Zana’s regal Art Basel outing

    The French architect debuts his latest furniture collection in the storied environs of the Hôtel de La Marine

    A man leans against a fireplace. To one side of him is a modern chair with slim metal arms and legs, and a deep padded seat
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    Beam me up! Take your lamps to a new dimension

    These artists’ lights are out of this world

    Inside a Forest Cloud chandelier, 2019, by Nacho Carbonell, on display in Venice
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Jazz Charton
    Leaving stuff on the stairs to take up later is not OK

    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

    A detail of a staircase, with shoes, books and clothes left on each tread
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Luke Edward Hall
    The best lamps for dark autumn days

    Turn off the overhead light and bring a warm glow to interiors

    A warmly lit bedroom, with floor lamps either side of the double bed. The lamps have curved antique brass arms, reminiscent of a curlew’s beak, and cone-shaped rattan shades
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Objectify me: furniture, fetish and feminism

    ‘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

    An orange cabinet in the shape of a woman’s head and torso. Her eyes, mouth, breasts, stomach and vulva are the drawers.
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    HTSI
    How Noritsugu Oda found himself sitting on 1,400 chairs

    Over 50 years, the Japanese illustrator has accumulated a world-class archive. Now he has to decide what to do with it

    Noritsugu Oda in his living room at home in Higashikagura, sitting in the CH468 Oculus Chair designed by Hans J Wegner, produced by Carl Hansen and Son
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Gardens
    Monsteras, Inc: artist Jonas Wood’s pot plant obsession

    The artist has done his bit to advance the cultural kudos of the houseplant — and vice versa

    A man sits on a leather sofa, wearing trousers in leaf-pattern print. Beside him is a huge potted plant in a large decorative pot
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    InterviewAt Home with the FT
    The Petalon florists: ‘the front door is a border between the unpredictable and the serene’

    Florence and James Kennedy’s 200-year-old home in Cornwall is both a working flower farm, and a minimalist sanctuary

    A man and woman sit on a deep window ledge, looking at one another, smiling. A simple bunch of flowers is on the ledge, and there is a glimpse of a dining table, with bowls of fruit and more flowers
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Martino Gamper: ‘There are as many chairs as characters in the world, as people’

    The Italian designer takes over Maja Hoffmann’s London town house for an immersive retrospective

    A middle-aged man dressed in blue corduroy sits on one of seven chairs, which are lined up in a row in a large room, with panelled walls and a decorative reddish carpet. Every chair is completely different
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Artisans
    Felicity Aylieff’s big pot energy

    The ceramicist has combined China’s ‘white gold’ clay with artistic inspiration from Kew Gardens to create monumental floral pots for a new exhibition

    A woman stands between two giant colourful ceramic vases pots that are taller than her
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI special: the art of intimacy
    Alex Russell Flint’s interiors education

    The artist has turned an old French schoolhouse into a gloriously sprawling home

    Watercolours by Alex Russell Flint’s great-grandfather William in the salon at his home in Argenton-Château
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