Garden design is at an intriguing inflection point. What is the value in the hand-drawn master plan, when a AI and other software can do a lot of the work?
Natsai Audrey Chieza’s award-winning innovations harness biological processes to create alternatives to plastics, petrochemicals and other pollutants
Miami, Milan, Monaco . . . as new legislation looms in the UK, which alternative locations weigh in with homes and lifestyles as seductive as the tax breaks?
A postcard of a Raoul Dufy painting offers a window from the city to an imagined coast that ‘radiates a promise of bliss’
Weeding and deadheading now are among the quick fixes that will encourage a profuse second flowering in the weeks ahead
As designers look to the past for inspiration, embracing more partitioned plans, could the vogue for exposed cooking spaces be turning a corner?
Anders Kornestedt designed his coastal retreat to make looking for birds a seamless proposition. His tally is 275 species, one of the highest in Sweden
Dispensing with the perfect life pretence of a rushed clear-up makes for better social events, better friendships and a better life
With prices 15% to 20% below prime ‘Couttswolds’ territory, this overlooked corner of the English region is enticing a new crowd
The excesses of fast fashion are well publicised, but those of the interiors industry are less scrutinised. A new cohort of creatives is challenging this
Urban green spaces are oases of serenity amid tumult — and needed more than ever
The boyhood home of the broodingly realist painter of American life
For the Belgian artist and sculptor, life begins in the garden
Flexible working and concerns over cladding drive buyers towards other property types
Bike locks, robo handles, dash cams... and more top security tech
From a 15-acre wine estate on Lake Iseo to a penthouse apartment in central Milan
Matilda Goad wants to put the desirable in DIY
As the capital sees an exodus of priced-out incomers, critics say these ‘interlopers’ have no right to complain
The self-taught maker uses nothing but her bare hands to wrestle bulrushes into everything from floor matting to suits of armour
From big bold tableware to the brightest bedlinen — joyful ‘back to school’ fixes to banish the seasonal blues
Cool conditions have set the scene for stupendous displays of crocosmia, hydrangea and phlox
Forensic and historical analysts are increasingly being dispatched to listed properties to debunk myths — and uncover new secrets
The curator loves minimalism, the Brazilian modernists and her home in the Mantiqueira Mountains
Life, work and contemporary art come together in Nicolas Mazet and Kate Davis’s sensitive renovation of an 18th-century manor house
Shopfronts, museums and even chemists’ doorways are surrendering to an invasion of faux flowers that defy the seasons. Will nothing be spared?
A Swiss couple with an idiosyncratic approach to the built environment believe their new venture Poeticwalls will bring vim to the property world
Design’s hottest trend? Getting rough around the edges
Donald Judd strictly distinguished his sculptures from his furniture designs. The difference, now, is only in the price tag
The scaled-down models, aviaries and doll’s houses are the highlight at Homo Faber, the Luca Guadagnino art-directed craft fair opening this weekend
A ruined chapel perched above the Bay of Naples became the Roman-style fantasy home of the eccentric Swedish doctor and writer Axel Munthe
At a time when I was adrift in my own life, his ghost-like interiors anchored me in a place of quiet, spectral intrigue
Escape to these island sanctuaries, from a composer’s paradise on Ischia to a Prussian folly
Design is taking a geometry lesson
Sheets billowing in gardens and huge knickers strung from balconies slows us down, wrests us from screens — and is inspiring a generation of artists and makers
Over 40 years, Lesley Jenkins has continually reshaped this Shropshire landmark with her painter’s eye — and recent changes are particularly superb
Historians are piecing together the trajectories of the French Huguenots, eastern European Jews and Bangladeshis who found refuge in Spitalfields — and finally opening the doors to a museum reflecting on immigration
The antithesis of the WFH Modernist box, these retreats are a return to the wonkily handmade, the lyrical and the eccentric