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              • Friday, 3 January, 2025
                Television
                Couples Therapy’s Orna Guralnik: ‘Love your partner for who they are, not who you want them to be’

                The clinical psychologist talks taste

                Orna Guralnik at home in New York
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                Interiors
                ‘My style icons are the women I’m related to’: fashion royalty Lucie de la Falaise talks taste

                The design consultant and former model on mustard, starburst mirrors and her late mother-in-law Anita Pallenberg

                Lucie de la Falaise in her West Sussex home
              • Friday, 13 December, 2024
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                ‘Show people who you are by the work that you do’: former NFL star Michael Bennett talks taste

                The designer and philanthropist on cake, community and creating change

                Bennett at home in Honolulu, Hawaii
              • Friday, 6 December, 2024
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                Artist Mr Bingo: ‘Nudism is the freest state you can be in’

                The founder of the eponymous shop on postcards, litter picking and the joy of being naked

                Mr Bingo tucking into a pizza at his home in London
              • Friday, 29 November, 2024
                Design
                ‘I look like a design serial killer’: Queer Eye’s Jeremiah Brent talks taste

                The designer loves the Vienna Secession, slapstick humour and is ‘a psycho’ for scent

                Jeremiah Brent in the formal living room of his New York home
              • Friday, 22 November, 2024
                Style
                ‘Be strong and stand hard’ – CDLP co-founder Christian Larson talks taste

                The film and music video director loves vintage ashtrays, Versace sunglasses and ‘Lost in Music’ by Gay Marvine

                Christian Larson at home in Stockholm, with an early-’90s mirror-coated telephone and ’80s leather Nicoletti Salotti lounge chair
              • Friday, 15 November, 2024
                Style
                Jilly Cooper: ‘Is sex an indulgence? Not any more’

                The novelist talks greyhounds, Joanna Lumley and her typewriter, Monica

                Jilly Cooper photographed at home in the Cotswolds
              • Friday, 8 November, 2024
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                Ballerina Francesca Hayward talks taste

                The principal dancer of The Royal Ballet twirls for Tim Tams, Tchaikovsky and taxis

                Francesca Hayward at her home in London
              • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
                Politics
                The life and tastes of Anthony Scaramucci

                The financier and former White House communications director on Long Island, Lamborghinis and what he learnt from Trump

                Anthony Scaramucci at home in Long Island with issue #1 of The Amazing New Adventures of Superman
              • Friday, 25 October, 2024
                Travel
                Hotelier Julia Ashwood talks taste

                The co-founder of Byron Bay’s Sun Ranch on seeing the sun rise, Shibuya Crossing and her suitcase essentials 

                Julia Ashwood at home in New South Wales
              • Friday, 18 October, 2024
                Design
                Danish designer Bonnie Hvillum talks sustainable taste

                The winner of the inaugural Bentley Lighthouse Award for eco design on Karen Blixen, making wine and her sneaky chicken, Eva

                Bonnie Hvillum in the garden of her farmhouse outside Copenhagen
              • Friday, 11 October, 2024
                FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
                Architect William Smart on David Sedaris, great jackets and his space-age home in Sydney

                The founder of Smart Design Studio talks taste

                WIlliam Smart at home in Sydney with his dog, Digby
              • Friday, 4 October, 2024
                Books
                Writer and culinary historian Jessica B Harris talks taste

                The author loves James Baldwin, French Wordle and enjoying her ‘retirement renaissance’

                Jessica B Harris outside her home in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
              • Friday, 20 September, 2024
                Style
                Italian shoemaker Giuseppe Santoni talks taste

                The executive president of his eponymous brand loves affogato, ivy flat caps and his lucky colour, orange

                Giuseppe Santoni in the living room of his Milan apartment
              • Friday, 13 September, 2024
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                New York style legend Anna Sui talks taste

                The designer loves Yoku Moku cookies, old Seventeen magazines and her signature red lipstick

                Anna Sui at home in New York
              • Friday, 6 September, 2024
                Visual Arts
                Artist and maker Rio Kobayashi talks taste

                The London-based designer loves cycling, hand-shaped soap and the rules of a Japanese bath

                Rio Kobayashi wears Massimo Osti Studio jacket and trousers at home in Hackney, London
              • Friday, 30 August, 2024
                Design
                Lissa Carmona, CEO of design firm Etel, talks taste

                The curator loves minimalism, the Brazilian modernists and her home in the Mantiqueira Mountains

                Lissa Carmona in her living room at home in São Paulo
              • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
                Style
                My signature look is...

                Lykke Li’s black or white, Mr Chow’s moustache, Penelope Tree’s fringe – our Aesthetes share their style go-tos

                Lykke Li at home in Los Angeles
              • Friday, 2 August, 2024
                Style
                Art collector Batia Ofer talks taste

                The London-based philanthropist loves kohl eyeliner, Lalique deer and a dream-filled sleep

                Batia Ofer at home in London
              • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
                Books
                The Aesthetes’ pick of the best books, podcasts and music for summer

                From gothy pop to witchy reads, 20 tastemakers share their favourite recommendations

                Recent reads at Courtney Love’s home in London
              • Friday, 12 July, 2024
                HTSIThe HTSI adrenaline issue
                Architect Eugene Tssui: ‘I would like to have been a benevolent dictator’

                The architect and Olympian gets pumped on pull-ups, Przewalski’s horse dung and Superman

                Eugene Tssui at home in Emeryville, California
              • Friday, 5 July, 2024
                Books
                Eden Revisited novelist Umberto Pasti talks taste

                The writer and celebrated gardener loves begonias, Botticelli’s Primavera and birds of paradise

                Umberto Pasti in the sitting room of his home in Tangier
              • Friday, 14 June, 2024
                Sport
                Surf legend and artist Tony Caramanico talks taste

                The artist loves Warhols, a banging breakfast and the tropical rock of Jimmy Buffett

                Tony Caramanico at home in Montauk, Long Island
              • Friday, 7 June, 2024
                Style
                New York chef and TV host Sophia Roe talks taste

                Diamond Crystal kosher salt, spoons and Donna Summer’s fringe top her list of likes 

                Sophia Roe at home in New York
              • Friday, 31 May, 2024
                Visual Arts
                Dutch painter Peggy Kuiper talks taste

                The Amsterdam-based artist loves “oversized fits”, early-morning dips and Cy Twombly’s Bacchus series

                Peggy Kuiper in the studio at her home in Amsterdam
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