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The World of Interiors

Editor’s Letter • November 2022

The Best of British

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Picture This • Longing for a room with a view? Let David Lipton frame it

Urban Sprawl • Armchair travellers: it’s time to upgrade to sofa sightseer as we take you on a lazy tour of Milan’s easy streets. After the city’s busy furniture fair, chill out by a Romanesque church and recuperate in the shade of a classical column. Aided by curving, camelback and contemporary-modern styles, Gianluca Longo leads the lolls.

Arty Appetites • Can we tempt you with a delicious dish ‘en daub’, finished to perfection in the kiln of an artisan? Or perhaps you’d rather savour the delicate flavour of latter-day delft. Whatever, these statement plates – all bearing the imprint of an eminent maker – have passed the taste test with (palatably bright) colours. Miranda Sinclair is your chef de pottery for the occasion.

Celebrate Your Roots • For many of us, carrots were there before any other greens made the cut: a homely snack for all ages (with night-vision thrown in to boot). Humble though it may seem, a vegetable this versatile can always step up to the plate, whether that plate be Scandi, Vietnamese or Mediterranean. Let’s hear it for an undersung hero, says Daisy Garnett.

Grate Expectations • Keep your peepers peeled for the dinkiest utensils to prep fruit and veg. David Lipton separates the zest from the rest

Swish Chalet

Red Snappers

Acid René • A compelling – and often caustic – chronicle of life in interwar Paris, René Gimpel’s Diary of an Art Dealer features cameos by some of that era’s principal painters and players. Mitchell Owens relishes the promise of yet more piquancy in a forthcoming expanded edition

Meaty Slices of Quattrocento Italy

Every Fibre of her Being

A Hunter-gatherer in Black America

The Patterns of Production

Digest • Amy Sherlock’s pick of the best exhibitions around the world

Serious Pursuits • Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities, chosen by Ariadne Fletcher

Network • Busola Evans chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

BRIC À BRAKA • A dealer of diverse taste – and no little determination – Ivor Braka spent years acquiring adjacent flats in a vast ‘Pont Street Dutch’ London town house. Assiduously piecing the place back together, he proceeded to transform it into a repository of the rare and precious from assorted periods. Where else but here might you find Paula Rego happily rubbing shoulders with Augustus Pugin, or Tracey Emin with Christopher Dresser? Emily Tobin joins the throng.

UPSCALE • In 1974, the Belgian resort of Knokke-le-Zoute woke to a new resident – a 33.5m-long dragon – latest and largest in a line of Niki de Saint Phalle’s statement sculptures. Its two levels, tongue-slide and mural hide were a roaring success with kids (as well as Keith Haring), while for the artist, it reflected a troubled past. Marie-France Boyer visits this beast of burden.

LEVEL BEST • Of all the single-storey dwellings in Trousdale Estates, an architecturally rich neighbourhood high above Los Angeles, this was once one of the least prepossessing, improbable as that may seem. Now it’s one of the finest, thanks to...