Hannah Newton

The acclaimed musician and former late night bandleader loves everything from Amyl and the Sniffers to Erykah Badu. So why can’t he stand Steely Dan?
The first song I fell in love with
I remember hearing Strokin’ by Clarence Carter because my dad would play it. I know every lyric, and at eight years old, I probably shouldn’t have. My earliest musical lessons came from my family. My Uncle Thomas would send me jazz recordings of Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, and he...

Forget piña coladas and sunbathing on the beach — there are growing numbers of designer-led adventures where you can learn how to style your house like a pro

The presenter would do Common People at karaoke and avoids 6 Music during intimate moments. But which multilingual song makes him cry?
My dad had a quite a small record collection, but it was pretty good, he had all the classics: Bob Marley, Bill Withers, Ella Fitzgerald, Tina Turner. But I vividly remember loving America by Simon and Garfunkel – there’s a sense of hope to it, like a feeling of wanting to escape. We spent a lot of time in the car, going on d...

A favourite at this weekend's Oscars, Hamnet has brought Tudor architecture and interiors to the fore. And there are plenty of houses around the UK still showcasing 16th-Century living.
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A domestic apothecary of dried herbs – rosemary, sage, mugwort, lavender and thyme – quivers prettily from the dark timber beams of a Tudor kitchen; grass is strewn across the floor, and a scarred, worn wooden table is home to a collection of earthenware bowls. This kitchen is not real but a set constructed ...

The murmur of the radio is the only sound in Lison de Caunes’ studio, tucked away in the 6th arrondissement...

You can spot Tabby Booth’s house from the top deck of the No 4 bus: her pink 1970s pebbledash bungalow stands as a beacon to creativity among the rolling green hills of south Cornwall, a far cry from her former home, the Lady Rose, a party boat on Regent’s Canal, north London.

After ten years living on boats, the artists and gallery owners Booth, 35, and her husband, James “Hessy” Heslip, also 35, upped sticks and moved to the southwest in search of a garden big enough to accommodate Hessy’s ...

How to transform your living space for the new year – and create a unique, artisan-style look, without spending on "fast furniture".

The new year offers a fresh start, a blank page for reinvention, a moment to refresh mentally and physically – and to reconsider and revitalise our interior spaces. In a world where fast-changing trends and relentless newness are celebrated, many of us have turned to "fast furniture" – factory-made, poor quality – to create an instantaneous new look at home. B...

As Pantone announces its colour of 2026, a vanilla off-white, here's more on the reasoning behind the choice – and what other trending colours can help you achieve greater domestic bliss.
Pantone has spoken – and the colour of the year 2026 is… white. Or more specifically, Cloud Dancer, a vanilla-whipped, fluffy off-white that appears less like a colour trend and more like the inside of a marshmallow. But can an achromatic shade capture the global mood? Stephen Westland, professor of colour s...

Typically transformed from the kind of material you might expect to find at refuse sites – plastic bags, scrap metal and even loo-roll tubes and used coffee pods – the textile artist Debra Rapoport’s rambunctious headgear is surely king among all makeshift millinery. But interior design is another feather in her cap, as the flat she shares with her husband in New York, filled to the brim with further fascinator fodder, attests
‘It’s my personal statement. I don’t care if it’s fashionable. I d...

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

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...

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...