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Editor’s Letter • April 2023

ANTENNAE

what’s in the air this month

CHAMPIONS OF DESIGN • Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour is universally recognised as the world’s leading interiors destination. This spring/summer it will showcase creativity at its very best, with London Design Week 2023 in March, Artefact in May and WOW! house in June and July. The ultimate in design discovery awaits

ON THE RADAR • Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour is recognised as the world’s premier design destination, with an events programme that inspires at every level – whether through week-long celebrations of the latest launches, encounters with world-class contemporary craft and new design ideas, or a roster of highly influential names putting their creative talent into an extraordinary showhouse. Make it a must-visit for spring/summer 2023

Starring Roll • It’s a wonder Leonor Fini ever found time for any actual art, such was her love of parties and dressing up. Yet somehow, between appearances at masquerade balls, she did. And in the wake of World War II, one work proved a particular attention-grabber – a wallpaper now staging a comeback. Amy Sherlock assesses the orange peel, oyster shells and oeufs in this oeuvre

Pattern Pending • Master of the rolls David Lipton presents wallpapers that are the surreal deal

Border Lines • Have your fabrics come to the end of their natural term? A new intake of refreshingly sportif ticking and stripe patterns might be in order. Stitched into all sorts of cheery boarding-school bells and whistles – from bedding and blazers to teddy bears – these uniform bands are top of the class, rules prefect Jayne Pickering.

Memento Morandi • Something about the form of these tumblers, carafes, jugs and decanters might well put you in mind of a certain still-life painter. Gianluca Longo would like to think so. In contemplative mood, he (very precisely) lines up glassware that’s worthy of display and delectation.

All Mod Icons • Take one Milan apartment and then fully equip with present and future classics spotted at the city’s furniture fair. Mixing his decades and design styles come un vero italiano, Gianluca Longo decides to make himself quite at home with everything from Ponti armchairs to punchy-coloured carpets and thermoplastic lamps.

Best Case Scenario • While decorating an egg might seem like gilding the lily at any other time of the year, at Easter it just feels right. A symbol of Christ’s resurrection, the organic vessel more broadly conveys fertility and renewal at the spring equinox – so why not draw attention to it via dipping, dyeing or painting? Daisy Garnett orchestrates a théâtre de coop.

Ova Dramatic • Don’t soldier on with dull breakfasts. Add some theatre with this cracking clutch of egg cups, courtesy of David Lipton

Staged Business

Manhattan Transfer

The Land of Make-Believe

The Past is Another Country House • The ‘English look’ was at its swagged-and-pelmeted peak when, in 1985, John Cornforth wrote his seminal survey of traditional decoration. While unmistakably of its era, nearly 40 years on that same book remains an invaluable guide for the modern house-restorer and reader – as Mitchell Owens himself can attest

Loose Threads

Chintz Imprints

Network • Busola Evans...