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Editor’s Letter • April 2024

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What’s in the air this month

Foul Weather Friends • Looking for something nice and jolly in which to store your brolly? You’re home and dry with these, says David Lipton

The Queen of Sheen • As a weaver of innovative high-end textiles, especially those incorporating metallic threads, Anne Corbière is second to none. Collaborating with the greats of fashion and interiors, from Balenciaga to Brandolini, the American-born craftswoman has built a glittering career. Her latest coup? Designing a golden ‘tweed’ to cover the walls of several Chanel boutiques worldwide – a fabric, says Marie-France Boyer, that burnishes more than it furnishes.

High Tease • Does your crystal lack lustre? Is your flatware a bit, well, flat? Are you cursed with soup bowls that look somewhat less than califragilistic? Then it’s time to pimp up your place settings with attention-grabbing à la carte options that will last the course and not just starter, mains and pudding. Our own galloping gourmet Gianluca Longo sets out a tantalising feast for all the senses.

Suite Sensations • If you’re keen to entertain the best case scenario, well, we’re more than happy to accommodate. Alongside the carry-ons and attachés we’ve lined up, these garment bags have all been dressed to the nines in high-flying fabrics – stuff to start off any valet’s day with a bang. So check out Gianluca Longo’s transporting effects.

Record Breakers • The reams of antique documents and paper-bound tomes at the vast State Archive of Naples stretch out for 70 kilometres. Splitting it all up at intervals, however, is the latest in contemporary chaises, coffee tables and other au courant living-room comforts, all swung in to mark this year’s edition of the Milan Furniture Fair. Surveying his stylistic interventions, Gianluca Longo celebrates what might very well be a personal best.

One for the Albumen • How would you like your eggs? Poached, softly boiled as an accompaniment to new-season asparagus, whisked into a mayonnaise, meringue or custard…? There’s such a clutch of possibilities, one could easily feel ova-whelmed. Relax, says Daisy Garnett. Just buy the best you can, stick to a few basic rules – and then crack on.

Clucky Draw • Sometimes it pays to put all your eggs in one basket (or tray), says Rose Eaglesfield. So which to shell out on?

Predator with a Paintbrush

Prêt à Prouvé

Sounds of Silence

Come into the Parley • Buoyed by acclaim for his dazzling room sets in a Manhattan department store, Derek Patmore beckoned a curious public further into his world in the 1930s by writing a book. Despite the no-frills title, I Decorate My Home is rompingly engaging, thanks to a cameo by a wise old grande dame whose clipped aperçus pepper the dialogue – and test the author’s sangfroid. It is, for the most part, absolutely confabulous, says Mitchell Owens

Enzo Justifies the Means

An Angelica-mad World

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

THE SEAT OF POWERS • Until brought to heel by the Tudors, the Norman Power family ruled the Waterford area in Ireland as a personal fiefdom for some 500 years. In the 1770s, to mark a new alliance, one of its four castles...