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Editor’s Letter • March 2024

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Pillar Talk • Keen to give the objets of your affection the high praise they deserve? David Lipton’s got the pedestals to put them on

Shack Absorbers • Locals in Lorient, a naval base in Brittany, have powerful memories of the wartime bombing that devastated their town – not to mention the cité of prefabricated barracks that sprang up in a nearby field to house the homeless. Now, as Marie-France Boyer reports, a descendant of one of those residents has recreated three different kinds of hut, complete with carpet beaters, kerosene lamps and 1940s calendars.

Hue’s Been Framed • Nothing raises a room’s profile quite so quickly as a fresh coat of emulsion, whether it’s a delicate pastel or an altogether punchier shade. So which colours currently cut it? To put you in the picture, scissor-happy Rose Eaglesfield and David Lipton fetch down their tins of silhouette paint.

Illuminating Stuff • A switched-on designer if ever there was one, Michael Marriott casts wall lanterns, sconces, swing-arm lamps and more in a whole new light – among the tools and ephemera of his east London workshop.

Sterling Slivers • Rich and refined, Italian cured meats are premium in their field. And not least through sheer variety: muscly coppa, beefy bresaola, salami of every kind from all the country’s corners and, prince among them, prosciutto. However you slice it, the quality of these countless cuts speaks for itself – that’s why all they need to shine is a plate to put them on, says Daisy Garnett.

The Laying on of Hams • Looking for a platter that will properly flatter your prosciutto, bresaola and salami? Problem solved – or rather cured, says Rose Eaglesfield

Fifth Amendments

Star Glazers

French Connection

Upward Mobili • Thanks to the patronage of luminaries such as Isabella Stewart Gardner, the status of antique Italian furniture rose in America in the Gilded Age. One who enhanced its cachet was the design historian William Macdougal Odom, whose two-volume tome of 1918, packed with cassone, credenzas and commodes, helped inspire his countrymen to hunt for pieces with palazzo provenance.

Movers and Shakers

Painful Relief

Master Taylor

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

EXTRA CELESTIAL • Since moving to Margate part time, the National Portrait Gallery’s director and his partner have been seeing quite a lot of the skies that drew Turner to the resort recurrently. In fact, every passing cloud is the source of endless reflection, thanks to all the mirrored strips that line their bolthole in a Brutalist block and expand its view, albeit wonkily. A case of horizons well and truly broadened, reckons Matthew McLean.

SELVEDGED FROM RUIN • When the ‘jeans tycoon’ of Belgium snapped up this 18th-century maison de plaisance it was looking decidedly frayed around the edges. Well, what a turn-up! Having befriended the new owner – and coincidentally discovered her own ancestral ties to the place – Barbara Stoeltie zipped round with her husband and their camera to view the alterations.

A HOST OF SURPRISES • The writer Gaia Servadio was never one to bow to convention. There was her...