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The World of Interiors

Editor’s Letter • June 2023

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

A Show of Hangs • On the rack when it comes to coat storage? David Lipton rounds up square, curved and multi-pronged pegs to make a whole

Wall Flowers • Are you toying with turning your interior into a vertical garden? Stop shilly-shallying in the shadows and cast your eyes over these wallpapers dancing with hollyhocks, tulips, fuchsia and other plants designed for your perpendicular pleasure. So don’t be shy, let matchmaker Miranda Sinclair help you join the botanical ball.

Bouquets Garnett • How to elevate a simple summer salad or soup? With some flowers grown in your garden, of course. But why stop there? Certain good-enough-to-eat blooms can be pressed into action in other ways too, adding flavour to everything from custard to cake. Daisy Garnett celebrates petal power.

Perennial Favourites • For those who like to display flowers rather than just eat them (see previous pages), David Lipton has picked the best bunch of posy vases

Steeped Dreams • Want to sip your darjeeling with feeling and do your oolong no wrong? Then immerse yourself in our superior selection of teapots and mugs, from wheel-thrown and rustic to gold-rimmed and porcelain. So if you need a cuppa fixer-upper, be poured by Maude (Smith).

Dropped from the Sky

One Step Forward

The Property of Obsession • Tales of crazed collectors and eccentric aficionados fill Maurice Rheims’s The Strange Life of Objects (1961). Here the fabled auctioneer argued that, whether it’s matchboxes or Venetian glass that sets the heart pounding, what drives acquisitive behaviour is the inquisitive mind. The book’s got amass appeal, says Mitchell Owens

Solitary Refinement

Shortcut to the Past

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

Art & Antiques

What’s in the air in the art world

Nobby Dazzlers • A pioneer of colour photography, Madame Yevonde came to prominence for her surreal still lifes and glamorous portraits of high society. In 1932, when the Streatham-born snapper came upon the new Vivex process, her portfolio truly blossomed, thanks to its rainbow of hues and the more challenging compositions it inspired. And, as a new exhibition shows, if Modernists reacted sniffily to such chromatic saturation, the advertising world flocked to her studio.

SOANE RANGERS • Ever since The World of Interiors first visited Sir John Soane’s drawing office in 2003 it has remained a sequestered space off-limits to the hordes milling around the great architect’s house-museum in London. Until now. Following painstaking restoration, a new generation of visitors – and indeed artists inspired by him – get to tread where the apprentices once toiled. Among the first up its winding stairs were the fashion designer Erdem Moralıoğlu, who took the atmospheric photographs seen here, and Rebecca Swirsky, who evokes the reality of life at the drafting tables 240 years ago

NOWT SO DEAR AS FOLK • When Matthew Rice and David Wherrett first started picking up pieces of vernacular furniture and naive art they had no inkling quite what they’d unleashed. Nor that they would end up buying a centuries-old house in Suffolk – on top of their main weekday residence in the neighbouring...