House & Garden unlocks the door to an array of unique homes and outdoor features, ranging from town houses and converted barns to fabulous modern apartments and island retreats. Outdoor features are equally varied, including cottage gardens, water gardens and chic, city courtyards. House & Garden provides an invaluable sourcebook of ideas, from design and decoration to the best of travel, delicious recipes and fine wine. Britain’s most glamorous, inspiring and influential design and decoration magazine.
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FROM THE EDITOR
Notebook • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME shows us what has caught her eye this month
shopping
Take a stand • RÉMY MISHON showcases plinths, pedestals and display mounts
KITCHEN KIT • BRADLEY PALMER serves up colourful designs that cost less than £90
COLOUR CODING • Taking as their starting point a single floral wallpaper design that can be made to order in bespoke colourways, RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME and BRADLEY PALMER have devised vibrant schemes that showcase creative hanging
DESIGN IDEAS FROM SALLY STOREY • For more than 40 years John Cullen Lighting has been at the forefront of lighting design, devising elegant and intelligent schemes. Here, the brand’s creative director Sally Storey explains to ELIZABETH METCALFE how she has introduced a few bright ideas in her own house in London
Architect MAX DE ROSÉE on DOORWAYS, OPENINGS AND HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
INSIDER
Out & about
FLOORING • LAURA NORMANTON lays down a selection of ideal flooring solutions for kitchens and bathrooms – from wood-effect porcelain to quartz surfaces
INSIDER The List • The List By House & Garden is our indispensable guide to design professionals. Take inspiration from this interiors scheme and these products, selected from some of its standout members
ART IN DESIGN • House & Garden sets a brief for interior design studio Janine Stone to devise schemes for different rooms. This month, the team transforms a bare, soulless space in a contemporary country house into a characterful sitting room
Outside interests
Words and pictures
THE BIBLIOPHILE: Edward Bulmer • The interior designer and colour historian recommends books from his collection
Art scene
PEOPLE • THIS MONTH: A creative husband-and-wife duo crafting a new life in Gloucestershire; a designer inspired by the past lives of houses; and a young artist who has gone underground
DOUBLE VISION • A move to a new studio brought glass artist EMMA PEASCOD and her sculptor husband TOBIAS MARTIN to Gloucestershire, and this workspace and their cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon reflect the breadth of their creative skills
STUDIO WESTMAAS • Kay Westmaas talks to ELIZABETH METCALFE about the influences that have shaped her approach and her emphasis on longevity, as illustrated by this Georgian house
JOY LABINJO • EMILY TOBIN and photographer JOSHUA MONAGHAN visit the north-London-based painter, whose intimate scenes of ordinary life have found their way underground further south
Stories • THIS MONTH: Sensitive restorations in London and Cambridge, plus a host of golden daffodils in Fife and a nurseryman’s guide to growing hepaticas
BREATH OF FRESH HEIR • Eildon Hall, a 19th-century house belonging to the Buccleuch family, has long been cherished for its relaxed conviviality. Now, current custodians Walter and Elizabeth Dalkeith, with designer Olivia Emery, have retained its charmingly domestic feel, but with a considered contemporary twist
RETURN to FORM • Faced with a roof-less shell, interior designer Henry Prideaux gave this Georgian house in London back its identity,...