House and Garden

House & Garden unlocks the door to an array of unique homes and outdoor features, ranging from town houses and converted barns to fabulous modern apartments and island retreats. Outdoor features are equally varied, including cottage gardens, water gardens and chic, city courtyards. House & Garden provides an invaluable sourcebook of ideas, from design and decoration to the best of travel, delicious recipes and fine wine. Britain’s most glamorous, inspiring and influential design and decoration magazine.

Contributors

House and Garden

FROM THE EDITOR

Colour blocking • RÉMY MISHON assembles distinctive paints that can stand alone or be united in a punchy palette

Silver linings • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME and ELENA SMINTINA give the latest steel and aluminium pieces a riveting Surrealist spin

Notebook • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME shows us what has caught her eye this month

FOOTED BOWLS • ELENA SMINTINA is bowled over by these distinctive dishes

Design ideas for Sleeping beauties • CHRISTABEL CHUBB highlights decorative details to create a bed that is as smart as it is comfortable – from distinctive headboards to romantic canopies

INSIDER

Out & about

Sourcebook Kitchen appliances • NONI WARE highlights a selection of the latest designs – from state-of-the-art ovens and classic range cookers to fashionable, Italian-inspired accessories and a smart wine cooler

The List • Olivia Capaldi highlights the work of our directory members – from an interior designer to bed specialists

Outside interests

Words and pictures

Art scene

PEOPLE • THIS MONTH: The Turner Prize-nominated artist refusing to shy away from personal challenges; a creative family at home for Christmas; and a range restorer who really turned up the heat

Artists in their studio BARBARA WALKER • FIONA McKENZIE JOHNSTON and photographer JOSHUA MONAGHAN visit the Turner Prize-nominated artist in a converted factory in Birmingham

Lifestyle CREATIVE FREEDOM • As one half of a traditional paper marbling studio, ALEX LEWIS is constantly acquiring new skills, as evidenced by his have-a-go renovation of his Somerset farm, employing techniques picked up from family and friends

Specialist OSBORNE RESTORATION • CHRISTABEL CHUBB visits the Somerset workshop of Olly Osborne, who turned a side hustle restoring iron ranges in his garage into a successful business

Stories • THIS MONTH: From a rectory in Bath to a beach house in the Bahamas; Dan Pearson on a historic Oxfordshire garden; and seed scouting in Holland

Home from home • In this handsome West London house, designer Beata Heuman has launched her latest venture: a multifunctional space with offices and studios, room for her team to collaborate, and somewhere to showcase her prototypes and greatest hits

Sweetness and light • Interior designer Tino Zervudachi has transformed this house in the Bahamas from dark and unpromising into bright and breezy, with cool blue and white colour schemes that enhance the reworked layout inside, and wraparound terraces outside with spectacular ocean views

The sense of peacefulness that so enticed 19th-century city dwellers is perfectly embodied at this former vicarage in Combe Down • This was the feeling that Anna Haines wanted to evoke when she revitalised the Grade II-listed former rectory on the outskirts of Bath. From the predominantly pale palette of natural hues to the layering of antique textiles, her choices have brought harmonious charm to its interiors

From remorse to delight • Fuelled by nostalgia, interior designer Gregory Mellor hastily snapped up this house in the leafy suburbs of Cape Town. Now his treasured collections are layered with classic chintzes, ikats and kente cloth...