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EDITOR’S LETTER • JULY 2022

antennae news • What’s in the air this month, by Ariadne Fletcher and Mitchell Owens

antennae news • A few of our favourite things at Milan design week, by David Lipton

LAZE MAJESTY • What’s the right recipe for feeling royally relaxed? Superb seating in a gorgeous setting. So whether you’re in Palm Beach or Bali, near Central Park or Siena, soak up the view in a de luxe daybed, chic chaise-longue or languorous ‘love bed’. Gianluca Longo leads us on a long, unwinding road.

antennae roundup • Growing tired of your planters? Let David Lipton sow the seeds for a new crop of pots

EXTERNAL FORCES • If your outdoor fabrics no longer reach for the skies, best not wing it in the search for successors. Instead, these formidable high-fliers – from stripes to leaves and jungle to geo metric – are colourful, durable and, better still, adaptable, loving the indoor life too. Benjamin Kempton proves himself a stylist for all seasons.

SEASONAL CRUSH • If you love the thought of unlocking some of nature’s purest flavours – from berries and cherries to rhubarb and roast plum – it’s sorbet all the way. Just a summertime country walk can offer up the rich pickings of hedgerows. Add water, sugar, lemon and an ice-cream maker to your bounty – and enjoy the frozen fruits of your labour. Having planted the seed of a delicious idea, Daisy Garnett caps it off with a splash of alcohol.

table • If your thoughts on sorbet dishes are yet to crystallise, just chill. David Lipton has the inside scoop

books • Outsider artists, fronds reunited, buttercup squash

PLEASURE TOME • In the early 1960s, the unlikely double act of Jerome Zerbe and Cyril Connolly produced a charming guide to ‘sumptuously small’ maisons de plaisance once owned by a motley bunch of royals, courtiers and aristocrats. Like the historic bijou boltholes featured, the volume itself is an escapist’s delight, writes Mitchell Owens

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

network • Sophia Toce chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

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VISITOR’S BOOK

PALM FOR THE SOUL • In 1920s Marrakesh, French artist Jacques Majorelle created a house that celebrated Moroccan craft skills and a lush Islamic garden with burbling fountains, a haven from the teeming city outside. Fifty years later, both were down at heel, but rescuing the entire site from developers’ clutches, ardent fans of the country Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé picked up the baton… The results, as Hamish Bowles recounts, are a paradise rich in visual poetry.

FAUX-LIAGE • Whoever said nature can’t be improved on clearly wasn’t au fait with the exacting bunch of artisans around the world who craft flowers in everything from feathers to clay.

PALACE INSIDERS • At Petworth House in West Sussex, garden and ancestral home are not strictly demarcated. Instead, the dividing line blurs beautifully, from deer grazing by windows to shrubs filling Rococo rooms with honeysuckle aromas. ‘The sense of the outside coming in is very strong,’ says current custodian Caroline Egremont, part of an unbroken family tree going back to the 12th century.

ARCADIAN FIRE • Looking out to the Taygetos...