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  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Residential
    Five of the best Riviera properties

    Whether you’re looking for cool pools or spicy casinos, these exclusive pads will come up trumps

    A large, picturesque house nestled among dense greenery. The house is painted a warm pink, with a terracotta-tiled roof
  • 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

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  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Robin Lane Fox
    The only way is Essex?

    RHS Hyde Hall’s dry clay soil shows us what the gardens of the future could look like — to varying effect

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Clare Munro
    The risks of giving the family home to your children early

    The ‘dower principle’ of passing on a residence while still alive can have advantages if you’re trying to minimise IHT — but there are pitfalls

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Gardens
    Diary of a garden rescue: Patrick Grant goes on an orchard replanting crusade

    In the third in a series, the ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ judge plants damsons, figs, apples and walnuts — a gift to future generations

    Two men stand in an orchard. Mark is wearing orange shorts and a straw hat, and Patrick is wearing a blue shirt and dark trousers
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Slice of a stately home: living the divvied-up dream?

    The zeal for converting grand country estates into multiple high-spec residences is reaching a new high — opening up the market for life-hack lords of the manor

    A castle surrounded by lawns and woodland, photographed from the sky
  • 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
    Interiors
    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
    Gardens
    Inside Hardy Amies’ garden: ‘an opera in four acts’, rewritten

    When David Freeman inherited a beautiful 18 square metre garden from the Queen’s couturier, he was not afraid to make changes. The result is a sensitive tribute to a mischievous man

    A central path running between two raised beds, with a cone-roofed summerhouse at the end
  • 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
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    European prime property
    Provence’s renewed cultural cachet lures homebuyers

    Francophiles have long been drawn to the ‘land of blue tones and gay colours’ that inspired Van Gogh — and a new cultural vibrancy is boosting the region’s appeal

    A street in a southern French town featuring traditional buildings with wooden shutters and people sitting in the sun or under parasols outside cafés
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    The new-gen property developers rethinking London

    With first-hand experience of the struggles and aspirations of younger buyers, an emerging cohort is hoping to set a new standard for a more responsible development culture — and a kinder city

    Part of a terrace of modern houses, clad in dark grey weatherboarding
  • 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
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #86: Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Long Island

    The tensions of the artists’ relationship — and their influence on each other’s work — are manifest in the fisherman’s cottage that they shared

    A black and white image from the 1950s, in which Jackson Pollock leans forward, dripping paint from his brush onto the canvas below, while Lee Krasner, sitting to his left, looks on
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Where I write . . . Dawn O’Porter’s long search for an attic escape

    The author charts her decades-long quest — via co-working hell — to a bolt-hole above a mews house

    Inside view of a small apartment, wooden floorboards, white boarded  sloping ceiling, a table in the centre of the image covered in books, green sofa with cushions in the foreground, a wall covered in paintings and artwork on the left, and at the far end of the room on the right a collection of clothing on clothes rails. Inset a close up of the table with books on, and an inset of a young woman with black bobbed hair
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Interiors
    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
    Lone Feifer
    The time to create better indoor climates is now — we need an inside equivalent of EPCs

    The wellbeing and economic benefits of improving ventilation, daylight and temperature at home are clear. We need to work together to create a system to measure them — and demand better standards

  • 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
    Harriet Fitch Little
    Container theory: what our Tupperware is telling us

    The celebrated brand may be in danger, but demand for storage solutions has never waned as we seek to beautify hidden parts of the home

    Tupperware Party, 1950s.
  • 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
    Robin Lane Fox
    Future-proof spring: what to plant now for a spectacular 2025

    It’s not all about the tulips. Taking a punt on autumn-sown annuals and biennials can boost next year’s blooms

    A painted lady butterfly on a eupatorium boneset flower
  • 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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