Shun common or garden containers and embrace the rusty, ramshackle and radical for greenery with added interest
Meet the florist who’s invented a sustainable foam
From bird-battered paintings to crumbling cupids, the team of conservators are the invisible hands that bring historic homes and artworks back to life and leave no trace
She describes the passion and fury that drives her work — and enthuses about her new natural swimming pool
Relaxed designs that can be used indoors or out
The joint inheritors of a historic Florentine property are preserving the legacy of a community linked to artists from Henry James to Bernardo Bertolucci
The life of a Georgian home and its residents through the centuries, from town house to tenement
It has been another vintage year for the beloved flower, despite some spoils from heavy rain
Could one man’s subterranean solution more than a century ago inspire a modern-day model for coping with extreme heat?
Do yours have the right filling and requisite roundness? Or do they have ‘bunny’s ears’ and unspeakable foam? Here is a purist’s guide
When monochromatic rigour meets mushroom and moss, the results are magical
Cheaper loans in France and Spain follow cut in ECB rate
A new generation of global super-rich is gradually replacing dynastic philanthropists and ageing snowbirds, revitalising the area and sending property prices soaring
From a manor house where Radiohead recorded much of ‘OK Computer’ to a former Benedictine nunnery with a Corinthian fireplace and coat of arms
‘We have an older generation often rattling around in large properties filled by possessions rather than people’
Turn your house into a temple of reflection
The Taiwanese tech entrepreneur on buying art, wine and nine storeys of his building, letting his four-year-old choose a Picasso for her bedroom and holding firm in the face of threats from China
To our writer, a teenager in the late 1990s, the seemingly effortless comfort of the characters’ lives included their London apartments
Make your interiors bloom as beautifully as your garden
The novelist wrote most of his virtuoso, near-mythical ‘Moby-Dick’ in this Massachusetts farmhouse
A rich convergence of plants from the Alps to the Arctic to the Med grace this rocky limestone region of western Ireland
The ultimate property for a fly fisher is land with fishing rights along one of the country’s Big Four rivers
The scientist and entrepreneur Shirley Sherwood has amassed 1,000 works, from early masters to contemporary painters
Property listings are increasingly awash with beguiling photographs of Labradors at the door or kittens curled in a chair
The London-born darling of New York’s elite interiors world specialises in fluid pieces that are ‘both soft and strong’
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