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Interiors

  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    At Home with the FT
    Peter Schlesinger: ‘It was drug-ridden back then — but a wonderful place’

    In 1978, the ceramicist arrived in New York, buying an apartment in an old girdle factory in the Flatiron district. Much has changed, but his home remains true to the area’s creative past

    An older man dressed in jeans and a blue top leans against an orange sofa in a large living room. A painting of flowers can be seen on the wall behind him, and a drinks trolly with several glass decanters is beside him
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    HTSI
    Jumbo, the design duo who’ve turned dumbing down into an art form

    Meet New York’s new meme lords

    Monling Lee (left) and Justin Donnelly in the Jumbo studio in New York City. At their feet are Fortune chairs, $1,175 each, hellerfurniture.com. In the centre is a scale model of the Sport sofa
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    HTSI
    The best thing about sci-fi films? The corridors

    Take a design cue from a movie masterpiece this season 

    An ocatgonal corridor in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Designer Charles Zana’s regal Art Basel outing

    The French architect debuts his latest furniture collection in the storied environs of the Hôtel de La Marine

    A man leans against a fireplace. To one side of him is a modern chair with slim metal arms and legs, and a deep padded seat
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    HTSI
    Beam me up! Take your lamps to a new dimension

    These artists’ lights are out of this world

    Inside a Forest Cloud chandelier, 2019, by Nacho Carbonell, on display in Venice
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    FT Series
    The world’s best house museums

    Step inside the homes of some of the world’s most illustrious writers, artists and other historical personalities — and see how interiors can reveal interior lives

  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Jazz Charton
    Leaving stuff on the stairs to take up later is not OK

    My husband is tidy. I am not. But what started as a simple passive-aggressive back-and-forth escalated when my husband started leaving stuff on the landing

    A detail of a staircase, with shoes, books and clothes left on each tread
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Luke Edward Hall
    The best lamps for dark autumn days

    Turn off the overhead light and bring a warm glow to interiors

    A warmly lit bedroom, with floor lamps either side of the double bed. The lamps have curved antique brass arms, reminiscent of a curlew’s beak, and cone-shaped rattan shades
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Objectify me: furniture, fetish and feminism

    ‘I am the Last Woman Object’ declared Nicola L. in 1969. But 55 years later, stereotypes remain and women continue to create body furniture to challenge uncomfortable truths

    An orange cabinet in the shape of a woman’s head and torso. Her eyes, mouth, breasts, stomach and vulva are the drawers.
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    HTSI
    How Noritsugu Oda found himself sitting on 1,400 chairs

    Over 50 years, the Japanese illustrator has accumulated a world-class archive. Now he has to decide what to do with it

    Noritsugu Oda in his living room at home in Higashikagura, sitting in the CH468 Oculus Chair designed by Hans J Wegner, produced by Carl Hansen and Son
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Gardens
    Monsteras, Inc: artist Jonas Wood’s pot plant obsession

    The artist has done his bit to advance the cultural kudos of the houseplant — and vice versa

    A man sits on a leather sofa, wearing trousers in leaf-pattern print. Beside him is a huge potted plant in a large decorative pot
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    InterviewAt Home with the FT
    The Petalon florists: ‘the front door is a border between the unpredictable and the serene’

    Florence and James Kennedy’s 200-year-old home in Cornwall is both a working flower farm, and a minimalist sanctuary

    A man and woman sit on a deep window ledge, looking at one another, smiling. A simple bunch of flowers is on the ledge, and there is a glimpse of a dining table, with bowls of fruit and more flowers
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Martino Gamper: ‘There are as many chairs as characters in the world, as people’

    The Italian designer takes over Maja Hoffmann’s London town house for an immersive retrospective

    A middle-aged man dressed in blue corduroy sits on one of seven chairs, which are lined up in a row in a large room, with panelled walls and a decorative reddish carpet. Every chair is completely different
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Artisans
    Felicity Aylieff’s big pot energy

    The ceramicist has combined China’s ‘white gold’ clay with artistic inspiration from Kew Gardens to create monumental floral pots for a new exhibition

    A woman stands between two giant colourful ceramic vases pots that are taller than her
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI special: the art of intimacy
    Alex Russell Flint’s interiors education

    The artist has turned an old French schoolhouse into a gloriously sprawling home

    Watercolours by Alex Russell Flint’s great-grandfather William in the salon at his home in Argenton-Château
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    What does your mantelpiece say about you?

    A solitary vase, a shrine to family photographs, an unruly mess of keys, knick-knacks and unpaid bills . . . whatever sits above the fireplace is compellingly revelatory

    Johnson Hartig’s living room is a riot of colour and pattern, including an orange mantelpiece with green and white zigzag tiling and a bright blue coffee table
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    HTSI
    Six exhibition posters to buy now

    Because everyone needs some Warhol, Ruscha et al on the wall

    Andy Warhol: Velvet Rage and Beauty at Straatliche Museen zu Berlin, €12
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    InterviewAt Home with the FT
    Developer Rajan Bijlani: bringing Chandigarh to Primrose Hill

    The British-Indian collector found just the place to house his Le Corbusier and Jeanneret pieces — a dilapidated pottery in north London. So he set about restoring it

    A man sits barefoot on a Modernist chair. Behind him is a large abstract painting, and a sculpture
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    HTSI
    Skirted furniture that will sweep you away

    The best contemporary fringed pieces to buy now

    Ceraudo Carlotta ottoman, Aurora footstools, Giulia occasional chair and Sofia armchair, all in Sonia Stripe
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    HTSI
    How to create the perfect nook

    Curl up in a snug this autumn

    A sleeping berth designed by Hadley Wiggins for a home on Long Island
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    The golden touch of keum-boo

    The ancient Korean gilding technique is enjoying a resurgence — with a little help from YouTube

    Four silver beakers decorated with gold leaf patterns
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Residential
    The book hunter: crafting the perfect collection with Philip Blackwell

    Whether you’re looking to impress friends with leatherbound classics, or conjuring up a witchcraft reading room, Ultimate Library can help

    A cozy living room with tall book shelves leading into a dining room
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHouse & Home City Living Special
    The city storytelling of designer Jean-Louis Deniot

    Whether in Tangier, Hong Kong, Taipei, Chandigarh, New York or Qatar, the French interior architect’s designs capture the individual character and cultural identity of their city location

    A living room featuring a large cream sofa, a gold coffee table and a  mirrored ceiling
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    Luke Edward Hall
    ‘I don’t want to scream mid-century’: how to decorate a brutalist flat

    London’s Barbican masterpiece has wonderful detailing, but if all that concrete is too much, there are some inspiring ways to soften it

  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    FT Series
    House & Home City Living Special

    In this special edition, we look at the changing face of Mayfair, talk to architects from Karachi to Xi’an embracing ‘sponge tactics’ to mitigate flooding, step inside a Singapore garden home, and spotlight design tips for the growing rental market

    Elevated view of a very green area, a former riverbed, which is now filled with greenery with a few paths crossing it
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