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Editor’s Letter • October 2023

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What’s in the air this month

On the Radar • Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour’s events for the coming months strengthen its universally acclaimed position, from spotting next-generation talent to luxury shopping experiences

Have We Got Hues for You • Orange and yellow and pink and blue… David Lipton finds new products to please every palette over at London Design Festival

Class Makers • It seems crystal clear that the nine individuals featured on these pages have a shining future. From furniture with a conscience to surreal ceramics, and ornately crafted carvings to (re)purposeful design, their work oozes inventiveness and polish. Amy Sherlock, David Lipton, Ariadne Fletcher and Donna Salek offer their reflections

Inspired Casting • Not far from Hollywood’s dream factory, fantasies of a very different kind are playing out in a former industrial plant. Designer David Wiseman produces scene-stealing, site-specific installations and furnishings for private homes and world-famous brands alike. He takes his cue from ancient techniques such as the lost-wax mould-making process, alongside a reverence for past masters such as Hokusai. Celia McGee puts you in the picture.

The Smell of the Greece Paint • The merchants of Zagori were a theatrical bunch, flaunting their wealth, erudition and worldliness in entire rooms decorated with stage curtains, proscenium columns, rococo panels, strange beasts and… well, you name it, really. The wonder is how so many of these remarkable backdrops to domestic life lay undiscovered for decades. Joshua Barley shines a spotlight on some of the region’s showstoppers.

Tempting Fête • How much is the hoopla of choosing fabrics a matter of skill and how much a game of nerves and instinct? In this carnival of colour, you can pit your wits against Miranda Sinclair, as she sets out her stall with the latest stripes, florals and geometrics. Eyes on the prize!

Fairy-Tale Ending • The Marble Palace in Potsdam once boasted a canopied fantasia. Friedrich Wilhelm II entertained intimate acquaintances here, amid sumptuous silks and swags that could have graced Aladdin’s cave. Following decades of beastly neglect, this sleeping beauty has been gradually brought back to life. Now read on, says Barbara Stoeltie.

Jaunesse Dorée • From furniture to fabrics and even flatweave rugs, it seems that everything Max ‘Midas’ Egger touches turns to gold, saffron, biscuit and Nancy Lancaster’s beloved buttah-yellah… Sit back as he guides you through the maize and myriad other shades towards the sunlit upholstery.

Cabinets of Virtuosity • For five decades, Thierry Bosquet finessed masterly stage-set designs, some for the Brussels opera house that his grandfather once ran. His passion for the Baroque era – Venice and Versailles are two of his key artistic touchstones – is joyously reflected in the breathtaking scaled-down room models to which he has dedicated himself. Intricately detailed and adroitly executed, they confirm him as a miniaturist maestro, says Cosmo Brockway.

Redressing the Past • With its bespoke Deco furniture, sensual curves and sleek lines, Ostend’s De Ooievaar villa is a vintage masterpiece fashioned by Jozef de Bruycker. But this Modernist marvel wears a problematic fascist legacy,...