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ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Stick ’em up! • Tiles that’ll make you want to grab a grouting gun.

Appetite for Change • Has the time come to lick your fading fabrics into shape? If so, feel free to cherry-pick from the cream of the new collections. From Op art appetisers and succulent stripes to side orders of leafy greens, it’s all meat and drink to WoI. Let us set you on the right course.

Heavenly Bodies • What shape are your vases in? Does your mantel need a beauty treatment? Instead of playing pot luck, take time to run your eyes up and down these curvaceous vessels. Be it jasper and lotus seed or Murano glass and marbled stone, Olivia Gregory selects the most sinuous of silhouettes.

Setting Spells • The magic of jelly is a tale as old as time. Once theatrical fare fit for only the grandest gullets, the dessert has developed a wobbly public image over the decades, cursed by faddism and conjuring tricks that mask nondescript flavours. Happily, the pud’s PR problems have a simple solution, says Daisy Garnett: creating liquid gold worthy of the mould.

Silicone Valleys • Be they glass, metal or, yes, plastic, these jelly moulds will form your fruity nectars into shapely sectors, says David Lipton

Pioneer in the Sky

Code Red • Colour can be a ruddy dangerous business – at least when you put a layman behind the wheel. Luckily, aesthete and design maestro Basil Ionides was always a real savant of the spectrum. Written in 1926, his Colour and Interior Decoration is still chock-full of tips for diffusing even the direst pigment pickle, says Mitchell Owens

Party Pieces

Ware and Tear

Network • Busola Evans chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

LOFTY SILENCES • The attics of great houses, especially, can be austere places, their dark recesses filled with robed silhouettes and the weight of ages. But in Boughton House in Northamptonshire, the cold palette of this exalted domain is the shadow cast by past warmth – dormitories and stairwells once used by servants are strewn with souvenirs of historic bustle. Unburdened by the Frenchified opulence for which the manor earned its nickname, ‘the English Versailles’, these peaks and passages have accrued an air of ghostly repose, as Patrick Kinmonth discovers.

GUIDING LIGHT • The sun has long been Garry Fabian Miller’s lodestar, shining down on a career spent steering the spectrum in his Dartmoor darkroom. The abstract artist’s chromatic corpus has always distilled the spirit of the seasons: now that he’s recruiting his muse as a collaborator – trading in chemical trays and Cibachrome paper for soil and seed, so as to grow dye plants – his solar power has never been stronger. Contrasting methods old and new, Tania Compton discovers there’s both illumination and shadow to be found at the eclipse.

MERCER’S HAUL • Even without the owner’s incredible range of antique carpets, suzanis and other precious textiles, this merchant’s house turned showroom by Bukhara’s former Jewish quarter would be a sight to behold. But with it? Suffice to say Marie-France Boyer is transported straight down the Silk Road to an Uzbekistan of old…

PEAK FLOW • The art world has been flocking to the eastern Alps, as ritzy new galleries are...