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EDITOR’S LETTER • JUNE 2022

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STITCH PICKINGS • Having won a prestigious ‘emerging talent’ prize in Paris and attracted commissions from the likes of Cartier and Guerlain, textile designer and embroiderer Lucie Touré seems to have it all sewn up. Visiting the atelier she established in 2018, Lily le Brun unpicks her pointedly successful career to date.

ROLL MODELS • Just as any discriminating person will think long and hard about the hang of their pictures, the same applies to wallpaper – only more so, given how wide a canvas it’ll cover. First things first – find some paragons of pattern in our vogue’s gallery. Whether historical or horticultural, animal or abstract, curator Gianluca Longo offers fine frames of reference.

Art of the Weave • IT’S TIME TO HANG TUFTS, AS WOI PRESENTS SIX BRANDS FORGING NEW AESTHETIC DIRECTIONS IN LUXURY RUG DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE

BATTERY CUISINE • Whether made from borage, nasturtiums or clover, there is something miraculous about a flower fritter. How can something so delicate it shrivels in a child’s hand hold its shape in a pan of boiling oil? With a sprinkle of sea salt, they’re simply delicious. All you need to think about is whisking up a light Japanese-style batter to dredge the blooms – just make sure you don’t miss the season, says Daisy Garnett. After all, tempura fugit!

BAYEUX WATCH • To behold the Bayeux Tapestry is to be gripped by the beguiling scenes depicted. And that, says Kassia St Clair, is testament to the expressive power of crewelwork itself

swatch • Curiosity piqued by fabrics of the crewel kind? David Lipton can scratch that particular stitch

books • Mies-begotten, Marolles medievalist, a longing for belongings, rue de rubbernecker

EGO TRIPPER • Whether roaming among Pompeian paintings or bourgeois boudoirs, few books on interiors have ever been as broad in their erudition as Mario Praz’s An Illustrated History of Furnising. In it, writes Mitchell Owens, the Italian scholar explores the idea that our inner sanctums are projections of the self

BEACONS OF HOPE • If your lamp’s days as a leading light are but a faded memory, don’t just switch off. A lightbulb moment has led us towards luminaries, from orbs and globes to brass and glass, that bring a warm glow and polished presence to any home. The future’s looking bright, says Benjamin Kempton.

SERIOUS pursuits • Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities, chosen by Ariadne Fletcher

network • Sophia Toce chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

THE WORLD OF ART & ANTIQUES

THE VICE SQUAD • From a bandsaw and a wooden press to a Victorian penny used for scraping off varnish, most of Tim Smith’s tools are as old as the venerable shop/home in Ludlow where the furniture restorer plies his trade. It’s a bit of a squeeze, but wending your way up the wooden staircase reveals all manner of delights – including an 18th-century sofa covered in cherry-red velvet and one of the owner’s many grandfather clocks awaiting repair. Ros Byam Shaw pays a timely visit.

MIX MASTER • To display his hugely diverse collection, architect Peter Marino has turned a Long Island library into an art museum, filling its Gothic Revival space with compelling couplings, such as a 17th-century bronze seen alongside an Andy...