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              • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
                Prime property
                Hot property: five homes in Bath

                From a grand Regency town house of the type immortalised in Jane Austen novels, to a pretty stone cottage in a nearby village

                An aerial view of a crescent of pale stone georgian townhouses overlooking a green; beyond them are sweeping views of surrounding town, houses, gardens and countryside in the distance
              • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
                How will we live in 2025? Trends in design, interiors and gardening to look out for

                Where will we move to, what will we plant, how will we build and which colours will we paint it all? Experts from Kelly Wearstler to Tom Stuart-Smith have the answers

                a collage of six distinct photographs, namely a row of elegant, curved terraced houses, an interior with teal-painted walls and a staircase, a close-up of a pale peach-coloured rose in full bloom, a minimalist outdoor space, an interior with warm yellow walls and a circular window, and lastly an industrial-style room with an exposed ceiling and minimal decor
              • Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
                Robin Lane Fox
                Giotto’s genius blooms afresh in Padua

                Restoration of the biblical frescoes in the Scrovegni chapel reveals the Italian painter to be not just the maestro of human gesture and form but a brilliant botanical artist as well

              • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
                FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
                House museums #96: Princessehof, the Netherlands

                The former royal residence was also the birthplace of MC Escher and is now home to a wide-ranging ceramics collection

                an artwork features multiple interconnected staircases, arches, and platforms that defy traditional spatial logic
              • Monday, 23 December, 2024
                Architecture
                Do your flowers, pickling jars or wrapping paper need a room of their own?

                As an antidote to the bustle of open-plan living, more clients are asking architects and designers to create spaces dedicated to quiet indulgences

                A room with cabinetry, wallpaper and curtains all in similar shades of pale green, with a sink next to plants and flowers
              • Monday, 23 December, 2024
                Residential
                Interiors experts Charlie Tilbury and Rose Hanson on how to design a luxury bathroom

                Top tips for blending practicality with personality and character

                Two women stand side-by-side and look at the camera. They are in a living room, in front of a sofa facing a fireplace with a painting on the wall
              • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
                Interiors
                A new window of opportunity for Japanese noren curtains

                Traditionally hung as signs in the country’s shop doorways, these delicate textiles are being adopted and adapted by designers and artists around the world

                Semi-transparent fabric panels in different shades. Behind the hanging panels, a person is partially visible
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                Generation regeneration: ‘a new era of farming talent’

                Last year, a third more tenancies were awarded to new entrants than 10 years ago. Many are breaking the rules, and promising to restore not just soil health, but the value of the industry

                A group of five individuals posing together in a barn or farm setting, illuminated by warm sunlight. They are standing or sitting in front of a blue Ford tractor
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                HTSI
                Controversial coriander is having a fragrance renaissance

                But can you handle a herbaceous perfume? 

                DS & Durga Coriander, £168 for 50ml
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                HTSI
                These paintings will put a spell on you

                The magical art of enchantment

                Canna, 2024, by Makiko Kudo, who opens a solo show at Koyama Gallery Kyobashi in May
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                InterviewAt Home with the FT
                Tore Hattrem, Norway’s ambassador to the UK: ‘We share your eccentric humour’

                His official residence may be on Kensington’s billionaires’ row, but Oslo’s man in London insists he is not ‘elite’ — and that after weeks in transit, those Christmas trees are bound to look a bit scruffy

                A man in formal suit stands in the centre of an elegantly decorated hallway lined with dark wood panels. The hallway leads to a dining room.
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                The Aesthete
                ‘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
              • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
                Lucy Watson
                Show me your cat: why pets are community heroes

                The Iowa City Kitty Walk recently went viral. Don’t mock. Its madness belies its power

                A cat with light beige fur and striking blue eyes is sitting behind a window
              • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
                North American prime property
                New Jersey’s Hoboken beckons with brownstones, a boho vibe — and baseball

                A recent influx to this city across the Hudson from Manhattan has switched up the atmosphere for commuters and families, and intensified competition for properties

                A view of the Manhattan skyline and high-rise buildings in New York City, framed by silhouetted trees and people in the foreground
              • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
                Interiors
                A new chapter for the velvet makers of Venice

                Designers and artists are playing with the storied fabric, bringing new vim to the looms that have been clacketing away since the 16th century

                Fabric rolls arranged on a counter. The fabrics feature floral and damask patterns. Behind the fabric rolls, there are two framed vintage black-and-white photographs hanging on the wall covered in patterned fabrics
              • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
                HTSI
                Could a bespoke duvet transform your sleep?

                In search of the ultimate bedding

                Norvegr bedding on Belmond’s Eastern & Oriental Express
              • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
                Residential
                A Florentine factory remade for the 21st century

                A huge 1930s site in the Italian city has been reimagined as a community hub, echoing other reinventions of our industrial past

                A large modern architectural structure with two symmetrical wings extending outward from a central building. The roofs of the buildings are covered with red tiles, and the structures feature large rectangular windows
              • Monday, 16 December, 2024
                European prime property
                Hot property: five European castles

                From a baronial-style mansion in the Scottish Highlands with its own trout fishing loch to a Lake Como escape with guesthouse and limonaia

                an aerial view of a picturesque castle situated in the middle of a circular driveway, bordered by a manicured lawn
              • Monday, 16 December, 2024
                Residential
                Bring warmth and fun into your home with a textile or two

                Interior designer Anna Haines on simple ways to be bold with fabric

                a cozy living room that includes upholstered chairs, a fireplace, rugs, art pieces on the wall and a large window that provides a view of the small garden outside
              • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
                Gardens
                How does your garden glow?

                Clever illuminations of plants can create silhouettes and shadows that capture movement, texture and hidden poetry

                Two chandeliers suspended from the branches of a large tree illuminate a dark, nighttime scene
              • Friday, 13 December, 2024
                Robin Lane Fox
                Five winter-flowering plants to bring joy to the world

                Deck the halls — and window boxes — with pansies, jasmine, mahonia, cyclamen or choisya

                Close-up of colorful pansy flowers in shades of purple and red, with bright yellow accents
              • Friday, 13 December, 2024
                UK prime property
                Super-prime London’s cut-price property deals

                The haggling is in full swing: with a near record number of unsold new homes and the wealthiest reconsidering their options, estate agents are sweaty palmed, but savvy buyers are scoring hefty discounts

                A stylized collage grand of Georgian or Victorian-style townhouses and a domed building, layered together in a dense arrangement. A ‘FOR SALE’ sign in red is placed near the bottom left. On the right side, a hand holding a smouldering cigar is superimposed
              • Friday, 13 December, 2024
                FT SeriesSave our skills: an HTSI craft special
                ‘My plan to save the Potteries – one tile at a time’

                Balineum’s Sarah Watson on her wild endeavour to keep an industry alive

                Sarah Watson in the clay room at Phoenix Tile Studio
              • Friday, 13 December, 2024
                FT SeriesSave our skills: an HTSI craft special
                The silversmiths strike back

                Deep in the Oxfordshire countryside, Bishopsland school is reviving a great British craft

                The 2024 Bishopsland cohort of silversmiths in training at the workshops in Buscot, Oxfordshire
              • Friday, 13 December, 2024
                InterviewAt Home with the FT
                Inside Maurice Saatchi’s mansion: ‘Look how perfect it all is. Even the log pile’

                The advertising maverick’s crenellated Sussex mansion strives for immortality — but are a new book ‘Orgasm’ and a bid for The Daily Telegraph really part of the plan?

                A person is sitting on a red upholstered chair. He has one leg crossed over the other. He’s wearing glasses with round frames, a light blue long-sleeve shirt, white pants, and black shoes
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