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The World of Interiors

Editor’s Letter • May 2023

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What’s in the air this month

Sleeper Agents • Tired of lying low on a shabby bedstead? Fear not: David Lipton’s uncovered the latest high-profile hits

Double Dutch • Does the pulling power of blue-and-white fabrics stem from their similarity to delftware, the beloved bi-coloured ceramics from the Low Countries? Maybe it’s nonsense… The question hangs in the valance, as Maude Smith drapes all kinds – from sprigged to geometric, floral to textured – for readers’ finial verdicts.

Tears for Spears • Are your brood wailing for asparagus to march back on to the table? Take heart – it’s not long until these vernal victors are pushing their pointy helmets through the soil again. Do pop some in your baskets before the solstice, though, since that portends their off-season. But hey, cheer up: Daisy Garnett has some fresh tips – be they yolk-slathered or paired with penne – that are sure to provide some comfort.

Pleasure Boats • Ready to sauce up your tableware? Then jump on the gravy train with David Lipton

Collage Education

Battery de Cuisine

Sweet Spots • Sprinkled with significant stains and scribbled secrets, cookery books can be transporting things. One particularly potent relic is home economics pioneer Fannie Farmer’s 1896 opus, The Boston Cooking School Cook Book – not least for those children across the USA who grew up baking under its firm hand. Thumbing the speckled pages of her own edition, writer and culinary historian Jessica B. Harris treats herself to the childhood memories it contains

Delft Handling

Observed in the Breeches

Network • Busola Evans chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

Kitchens & Bathrooms

Influx de Luxe • Want to make your dining finer and your ablutions more beautiful? Get set for David Lipton’s deluge of the delectable

With Knobs On • Hungry for kitchen appliances served with all the trimmings? This smart selection of cookers, fridges and washers is certain to push your buttons, says David Lipton

Hope Springs • Tapping the nation’s geothermal undercurrents, Japanese bathhouses have long been founts of inspiration. With communal bathing practices at a low ebb, though, many of these time-steeped sentō now face closure. Still buoyant, Shinichi Hirao has been percolating some thoughts on the matter.

Plumbing the Depths • A bathroom should make you feel divine, like Venus on her scallop shell or Neptune on his throne. So dip your tentacles into a sea of copper baths, marble basins and polished-brass loos. They’re gifts from the gods, says Busola Evans.

Let Us Spray • Allow us to lead you into temptation with an almighty selection of showers and taps that will lend grace to any bathroom or kitchen. Matthew Morris does the offering up.

Breakout Stars • Prepare for something explosive on the fitted-kitchen front. Whether your taste is for the traditional or sleekly modern, for metallics or marble, Busola Evans thinks these are the ones to watch. And to really whet the appetite we’ve served them with axonometric accompaniments…

Shower with Applause • Add some drama to your ablutions with a shower curtain that bit more attention-grabbing than the limp, white-polyester norm. So put your hands...