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ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Marquetry Leaders • In love with inlay? David Lipton lifts the lid on some divinely diminutive boxes

Outstanding Performers • With their sewn elements raised above the surface, embroidered fabrics offer treats to the touch as well as spectacles worthy of a pasha’s palace. Decorated with chevrons, poppies or velvety spots, the designs on display here represent pique craftsmanship. Up your level, urges Miranda Sinclair.

Palette Teasers • On the menu today we have all manner of toothsome treats in blocks of colour, from cherry red to lettuce green. Maître d’ Gianluca Longo serves up these inviting amuse-bouches at London’s Sketch brasserie, where a recent installation by Bethan Gray happened to heighten his hunger for hues.

Purple Reign • Dressing one’s winter vegetable patch in royal robes, radicchio has a flavour that’s echoed in the bitterly cold conditions in which it grows. But combined with blood oranges, milky cheese or rice, this Italian chicory offers a tension and complexity all its own.

Handled with Flair • Every well-dressed salad has to be accessorised with stylish servers. David Lipton tosses a few suggestions your way

Too Hot to Hoe?

Hanging Judge

Module Citizens • Itemising 253 building blocks meant to make communities across the world more livable, Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language (1977) analyses everything from downtowns to doorknobs. Easy on the eye it isn’t, says Mitchell Owens, but the book’s aims are avowedly utopian

An Inside Job

This One’s Got Legs

Network • Busola Evans chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

PREMISES, PREMISES • When writer and director Ryan Murphy bought a Federal house in Cape Cod it wasn’t long before he and his interior designer, David Cafiero, began asking themselves a series of hypothetical questions. Imagining all sorts of exciting possibilities, the pair decided to go off-script by piling on the pattern and texture. And then some. Here the owner recalls how, guided by the ghost of their heroine Bunny Mellon, they egged each other on, their cue: ‘playful but polished’.

ATLANTIC NOTION • It’s only right that the legend underlying the Atlantis House in Bremen, erected in 1931 as a temple to nationalist mythology, has been swept away by tides of condemnation. But despite the pseudo-history it promoted, the Expressionist architecture intended to symbolise the lost city is long overdue a deep dive.

HEUMAN RESOURCES • When an 18th-century cottage became available on her parents’ farm in southern Sweden, the London-based Beata Heuman jumped at the chance to recover this ‘missing piece’ of her identity. Her childhood was forged in this idyllic rural setting, and it’s proven a wellspring of the imagination ever since. Now the interior designer hopes that – prompted by bespoke panoramic wallpaper celebrating the region’s countryside – her own progeny will unlock the same portal to fun and creativity, as Emily Tobin discovers.

MANGER RANGERS • Like many in and around Provence, Magali Mille-Montagard’s father started making santons strictly for nativity scenes. But over the decades their très mignon clay menagerie expanded to include charming characters generally not thought to have been at...