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.

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House and Garden

FROM THE EDITOR

Notebook • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME highlights some of the covetable items that have caught her eye this month

What’s cooking? • There is nothing square about RÉMY MISHON’s pick of cool, colourful kitchen utensils and gadgets

Le rouge et le noir • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME reinterprets the classic combination of red and black in atmospheric room schemes that layer eye-catching floral prints with distinctive Eastern-influenced antique furniture and accessories

Lessons from the 1990s • It could be argued that few periods have seen such aesthetic contrast as the 1990s. This was a decade that took us from the frill-tastic hangover of the 1980s – incorporating theatrical flourishes and a generous use of fabric, pattern and paint – to the less-is-more practicality and minimalism that characterised the early 2000s. Having perused the House & Garden archives from January 1990 to December 1999, RÉMY MISHON highlights distinctive ideas that could work just as well today

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Out & about

Sourcebook: beds and bed linen • NONI WARE rounds up the latest designs for covetable bedrooms, including hand-crafted beds and mattresses, smart upholstered headboards and bed linen with flower power

The List • Olivia Capaldi highlights the work of our directory members – from interior designers to sources of smart chairs

Outside interests

HIDDEN PATRONS • Women and Architectural Patronage in Georgian Britain

AN ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE THING • The Radical Lives of Britain’s Pioneering Women Gardeners

Art scene

PEOPLE • THIS MONTH: a close-knit Norwegian family with gale-force entrepreneurial spirit; a Sussex studio making a material difference; an artist lighting up questions of cultural identity and femininity; and a group of friends with a winning plot

NORTHERN EXPOSURE • From a base in the picturesque Norwegian fjord town of Alesund, KNUT and LINE FLAKK, and their daughters Maria Lilly and Erika June, have developed an innovative, multi-strand business that encompasses all-weather clothing, renewable energy, hotels and adventure travel

LOCAL WORKS STUDIO • In their workshop in East Sussex, Ben and Loretta Bosence explain to MALAIKA BYNG what has led them to develop the alchemy of turning natural ingredients and waste into sustainable building materials

CHILA KUMARI BURMAN • FIONA McKENZIE JOHNSTON and photographer JOSHUA MONAGHAN visit the spaces in which she explores aspects of cultural identity and femininity through her eclectic work

PLOTTING THE FUTURE • CLARE FOSTER meets the far-sighted founders of Roots Allotments, who concluded that others shared their interest in sustainable growing and frustration with the long waiting lists for council-run plots

Stories • THIS MONTH: Frost-covered topiary in Essex and a garden for all seasons on Corfu; a Cotswold barn conversion; two very different London houses; plus an elegantly rustic cabin in Colorado (pictured)

Once upon a time in the west • Inspired by the vernacular architecture and craft traditions of rural Colorado, interior designer Clive Lonstein has devised elegantly rustic interiors for a log cabin that looks perfectly at home in its majestic frontier-country setting

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