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Editor’s Letter • February 2024

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Monthly Statements • Fancy storing your glossies by the dozen? Well, David Lipton’s a subscriber

Covet Garden • Winter-weary and yearning for a change in décor? Spring is the perfect excuse for a refresh. In the glorious surroundings of Rousham House, in Oxfordshire, mosaics, masonry and Classical statues are the ideal foil for the latest fancy florals, seductive stripes and tempting twills. A new leaf indeed, says Miranda Sinclair.

Fire Brigade • By mid-February, an excess of grey days really does start to feel like an emergency. Luckily, a band of potent heat purveyors are on hand to reignite the palate – and we’re not just talking chilli flakes, that reliable daily driver. Why not call upon the whole team – ancho, bird’s eye, chipotle, even Scotch bonnets, if you’re brave enough to harness the dragon. Green, red, yellow, black; pickled, dried or pounded; great and small, they’re heroes all, cries Daisy Garnett.

Belle Peppers • Does your kitchen require a baptism of fire? Rose Eaglesfield is keen to curry favour

Secessionist in Situ

Hailing Wolf

Model Answers • Known for his outré accents and campy combinations, William Pahlmann saw his influence spread far and wide thanks to his much-admired schemes, which started life as department-store exemplars. But his toothsome suites are more than just eye candy in The Pahlmann Book of Interior Design, which marries the decorator’s flair for the unexpected with a teacherly rigour. Mitchell Owens has been taking notes

Light Heavyweight

Wax Poetic

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

A DAR IS REBORN • When a 17th-century courtyard house in Tunis’s ancient walled city caught the eye of a Paris-based design consultant, its transformation was all or nothing, and in choosing the minimalist architect John Pawson to rebuild it, stylistically he got both. The house that emerged from this partnership fluently blends modern aesthetics with traditional idioms and forms. Text: Paola Moretti.

MUSICAL HEIRS • The house of Chimay is a dynasty of zealous melophiles. So much so, in fact, that one 19th-century member tucked a working private opera house behind the kitchen in the family’s ancestral home in Belgium. Rather than keeping this resplendent bequest to themselves, the current prince and princess have worked to maintain the Rococo theatre’s status as a bright jewel in the country’s cultural crown. Cosmo Brockway scurries into a front-row seat.

SET IN MOTION • From kinetic sculptures to whirling chairs inspired by an absurdist play, the apartment of theatre director and stage designer Fabio Cherstich has been dressed with the aim to surprise, unsettle and, above all, move whoever encounters it. And no wonder: when you’re contending with a building dreamed up by a leading light of Milanese modern architecture, plus a backdrop as dramatic as one of Italy’s most ancient churches, you’ve got to deliver a dynamic performance or risk being roundly upstaged. The animated owner himself discusses his special effects.

GAINFUL ENJOYMENT • Ever since he caught the collecting bug as a young boy, the owner of this Elizabethan house in the north of England...