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EDITOR’S LETTER • SEPTEMBER 2022

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

antennae roundup • The award for the best supporting role goes to… these book ends. David Lipton lines the winners up for a shelfie

THE LITTERATI • Where some wastepaper bins are, dare we say, a little bit throwaway, others qualify as uncontested keepers. Streets ahead in style, whether leather, lacquer, trompe l’oeil or trellis, they’re worth anyone’s disposable money – and almost too good for anything as pedestrian as rubbish. Ariadne Fletcher and David Lipton head for the Waste End with the most eminently respectable of these receptacles.

SQUALLPAPERS • If scenic wallcoverings float your boat, you will find no end of swell options on the horizon. But all at sea over which exactly to navigate towards? Fret not. Miranda Sinclair is here to help you find your fleet with a pick of panoramas, from Ottoman to very shipshape chinoiserie, guaranteed to go down a storm. All hands on decorating tables!

CHOP AND CHANGE • For kitchen chef turned knife-maker Hugo Worsley, the pandemic provided an opportunity to hone his craft and chip away at the world’s plastic problem. Melted at first in a modest toastie maker, the marbled handles of these carvers are anything but cheesy. Ariadne Fletcher gets to the point.

A VINE ROMANCE • A handful of perfectly ripe heirloom tomatoes fresh from the greenhouse, a smidgen of salt and oil… For a young Daisy Garnett, visiting South America, it was love at first bite. Years later, she remains as smitten as ever with this most summery of fruits. So what’s the juice?

table • Which chopping boards are the best things since sliced bread? David Lipton cuts to the chase

books • Indian stunners, tales from the riverbank

MY CLIENT HELL • Unlike the anodyne blather of many contemporary decorators’ coffee-table books, Billy Baldwin Remembers (1974) hums with candid anecdotes and a settling of scores with boorish patrons. But, writes Mitchell Owens, his eye – honed by decades as tastemaker to America’s elite – was just as sharp as his tongue

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

network • Busola Evans chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

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VISITORS’ BOOK

MAISON ACCOMPLISHED • When the designer Nicolas Ghesquière buys a wing of an 18th-century Paris hôtel particulier you know not to expect anything in the least conventional. True to form, having charmed architect Valerio Olgiati into joining his mission, fashion’s great adventurer embarked on reminagining it with marble, museum-worthy pieces by the Memphis Group and a soupçon of Stanley Kubrick. The result, writes Hamish Bowles, is a sleek shrine to design – and, with its sci-fi touches, an exploration of space in more ways than one.

THE FLORAL HIGH GROUND • On a mountainside in Piedmont, esteemed gardener Paolo Pejrone has created his own slice of paradise, one that eschews all pesticides. Comprising olive groves, a vegetable plot and swathes of rare plants, the land – heavily influenced by the owner’s horticultural heroes – is attached to the family’s ancestral farmhouse, lovingly restored by him in the 1990s. Here the octogenarian, surrounded...