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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Notebook • ELENA SMINTINA shows us what has caught her eye this month
DECORATE notebook
Luck of the drawers • RÉMY MISHON shows how the latest cabinet designs stack up – from natural wood chests to intricately decorated commodes
New school charm • Using artist Georgie Hopton’s vegetable-printed wallpapers and fabrics as a starting point, RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME creates simple schemes that recount a tale of white walls, plain oak furniture and unembellished drapery, enlivened by bright colours and assorted figurines
FOCUS ON : BEDROOMS
TEN YEARS IN TEN ROOMS
INSIDER • What’s new, what’s happening and what you need to know
INSIDER news
INSIDER news
Diary date • Made in the Middle, Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University, January 25-March 22
The List • Highlighting directory members in the UK. To become a member of The List, email thelist@condenast.co.uk
The List party people
Garden Getaways : The Cotswolds • CLARE FOSTER suggests a handful of distinctively different places to visit on a round trip from The Pig hotel, in the Gloucestershire village of Barnsley
INSIDER books
INSIDER art
PEOPLE • Interesting individuals with fascinating stories
Lifestyle GLAZE OF GLORY • RICHARD POMEROY’s journey from gallerist to artist to ceramicist has taken various twists and turns, but it seems he has finally arrived at the right spot in Somerset, creating brightly coloured pieces that bring joy to their users
RANA BEGUM • FIONA McKENZIE JOHNSTON and photographer JOSHUA MONAGHAN join the Royal Academician at her live-work studio in north London, which she shares with her assistants, her family and two Bengal kittens
stories • THIS MONTH: Homes in London, New York, Wales and the West Country; two glorious gardens that come into their own in winter and early spring; and the visionary head of horticulture at Horniman Museum & Gardens
RETURN OF THE NATIVE • In search of a New York pied-à-terre, Ceara Donnelley came across an apartment in Manhattan with a courtyard garden that felt like a piece of Provence in the city. Layering textiles and antique finds to enhance its plaster walls, exposed beams and terracotta floor, the interior designer has created an inviting haven
Many hands… light work • Undaunted by the open-plan layout and bland interior of this stripped-bare Regency house in the West Country, the new owner employed a dream team of decorator Edward Hurst and architect Joshua Berry to bring it to life with bold colour, rich pattern and fine antiques for a distinctive take on English country-house style
Dream catching • Interior designer Rachel Chudley and writer and performance artist Rachel Snider, the owner of this London house, share more than a name. Their love of fashion, art and the avant-garde is reflected in its surrealist-inspired interiors, which nonetheless work for family life
LIVING IMAGES • With a vision of a bohemian lifestyle in the Welsh hills, Julian Broad left London for this ancient longhouse, where he has stripped away modern additions to create more authentic interiors filled with eclectic objects and curios, many of which tell the story of...