Hannah Newton

Suffused with saturated hues from lemon to pistachio, the British fashion designer crafts her London townhouse as a glamorous, grown-up playground where Hollywood Regency meets 1980s vibes
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Layered in joyful tones, Olivia Von Halle celebrates the art of immersive colour with a distinctly glamorous edge in her Lon...

Modernism, colour drenching — even Henry VIII; whatever your inspiration, use it to create a radical sculptural centrepiece

While feasting at a 50th birthday dinner in north London, the landscape designer Joanne Bernstein found herself seated beside the architect Patrick Lynch — a stroke of luck that sparked an immediate connection. They talked all through dinner. Not long before, Bernstein — an avowed Londoner — suffered the unexpected loss of her mother. Inheriting a sum of money, she resolved to create a home and garden in the countryside, somewhere within reach of the city, and began her search. That search le...

Fancy pantry: the return of ‘below-stairs’ kitchen essentials
Furniture and tools that celebrate slow cooking as well as preservation and pickling processes are entering a new era

It took more than five years to design, but the result is a remarkable house filled with innovative twists
We don’t want it to be like an aquarium that you stare into,” says Pontus Björkman of his pine-clad, tar-treated home on the outskirts of Stockholm. “If you pass our house on the street, you will see absolutely nothing, and we like it like that.”
Just metres from the Baltic Sea, overlooking the city, it takes five minutes for Pontus, brand manager at Swedish fashion brand Acne Studios, a...

Furniture designers Christopher and Nicola Cox bring bespoke touches to an Edwardian townhouse
When Christopher Cox was 17, he asked his parents for a welding kit. “I collected scrap metal and began experimenting, making metal stick to metal. The fact that you couldn’t get it apart was really exciting.”
Cox comes from a family of makers, restorers and antique dealers. His mother is a painter, his brother a furniture designer, his father deals in medieval carvings, his grandfather traded in Eu...

Jessica Light is keeping the 15th-century French art of passementerie alive, adding beads and bleach to braids of silk or horsehair

We are rounding Gangxid Kun (known in English as Cape St James) at the very bottom of Haida Gwaii, an archipelago of about 150 remote islands and over 1,800 islets, 62 miles off the vast northwest coastline of British Columbia. The islands are on the edge of a continental shelf; just below the waters a 2,800m submarine cliff falls away, while above the immense reaches of the Pacific Ocean stretch out until Haida Gwaii brushes up against Antarctica.
This is Canada’s windiest region, prone to g...

The musician on her love of cheesy R&B, hating karaoke ‘with a fiery passion’, and the people who have sex to her sister Norah Jones’s music

Step aboard a motorboat in America’s Midwest where 70s style interiors create a nostalgic, retro retreat.

Cleopatra was said to have entertained her lovers aboard a luxurious houseboat on the river Nile. Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz lived on one for some 25 years; these vessels are enshrined in contemporary Arabic literature and history.

At the height of the pandemic in 2021, Ulli Heckmann and his partner Nienke took on the challenge of transforming a two-floor apartment in Delfshaven, Rotterdam, into a family home for themselves and their four-year-old son Billie.
Overlooking the Schie waterway, the apartment had potential but needed a complete overhaul. 'It took us two years to renovate because we couldn’t find contractors, so we did it ourselves,' says Ulli. He and Nienke tackled plumbing, lime plastering, furniture design...

Blending pared-back Spanish style with traditional English elegance, art dealers and restaurateurs Pep Boixader and Cuca Riera have brought a distinctly contemporary feel to their period home in Tetbury – alongside their neighbouring art gallery and Spanish restaurant. Ahead of their home’s sale, the couple talk Inigo through the evolution of their unorthodox design journey
Stepping through the door of Gallery BR on Tetbury’s Long Street is like stepping straight onto the pages of a minimalis...

The 300-year-old home of wine merchants Cath and Nick Brookes has been as expertly cared for as the organic cargo they import. As they prepare to relocate, Inigo savour the flavour of their impeccable restoration...

Born in Ealing, Reeta Chakrabarti was sent to India as a teenager to study – the opposite of many multicultural families growing up in the 1970s. She returned in her late teens to study at Oxford University, before working at the BBC as a news journalist and presenter. Over the last three decades she has reported on major news stories including the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the killing of Damilola Taylor, the European migrant and Rohingya crises, and the Covid pandemic.

Inspired by the rich tones of the Irish landscape, this urban apartment blends natural materials with bespoke city curves

Perched high above the city, this New York penthouse is the tallest home on the Brooklyn waterfront and was, for Irish American furniture designers, Orior their first foray into interior design.
“We had carte blanche when it came to the interiors, smiles Jordan Trinci-Lyne, director at Orior. “The building was an inspiring s...