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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FROM THE EDITOR
Notebook • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME shows us what has caught her eye this month
Sleep dreams • RÉMY MISHON pulls back the curtains to reveal colourful bedding combinations
SOAP DISHES • ELENA SMINTINA’s selection of smart designs made for good clean fun
Shadow play • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME sees the light with a patchwork of voiles and sheer fabrics for windows
GARDEN ROOMS • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME highlights the decorating potential of rooms that bring a sense of the outside in – from a conservatory kitchen in London to a traditional American front porch
ADDRESS BOOK : Furniture for garden rooms and outdoor spaces
INSIDER • What’s new, what’s happening and what you need to know
Introducing: Ellie Woods • A solo show in St Ives highlights the creativity of this young ceramicist, who joined Leach Pottery as an apprentice in 2021
Bonus building
Matters of form
Hail Rum Fellow well met
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A WINNING PARTY
The List • Highlighting directory members and their news
The Kitchen Garden Year: August • It is time to focus on tomatoes as they ripen in the greenhouse or outside, encouraged by regular pruning, watering and harvesting
Botanical guardian
BUNNY WILLIAMS: Life in the Garden by Bunny Williams (Rizzoli, £45)
PEOPLE • Interesting individuals with fascinating stories
FAMILY FORTUNES • When photographer JAMES FENNELL went back to his roots in County Kildare, it was with the aim of rescuing his childhood home. Together with his wife JOANNA, he has not only revived Burtown House but also established a kitchen garden, restaurant, farm shop and gallery to secure its future
DAVID DAWSON • Visiting the painter in his two London work spaces, FIONA McKENZIE JOHNSTON and photographer JOSHUA MONAGHAN discover how he creates his distinctive landscapes and evocative interior portraits
Stories • THIS MONTH: Inspiringly creative interiors – f rom a coastal retreat in Portugal and creekside living in South Carolina to a Cotswold house with a Bloomsbury group connection; and country gardens in Hampshire and Sussex
Natural flair • Though relatively new to interior design, John Tanner has long had an eye for the beautiful and eye-catching. In this Provençal house, he has mixed carefully chosen vernacular antiques with a neutral colour palette and natural materials for a quiet, considered look
Homing instinct • Doyenne of fabrics Carolina Irving has turned her eye for texture and print to creating a diminutive but super stylish rustic retreat in an unspoilt coastal region of Portugal – as her friend, the interior designer REMY RENZULLO, explains
DAWSONS’ CREEK • Dave and Jen Dawson are founders of a lighting company known for collections that blend form with function, modern with classic. The same can be said of their 1950s waterside ranch house in South Carolina, which has been sensitively renovated for a much brighter, more comfortable and yet entirely authentic Charleston feel
Collected and curated • Creativity runs deep in Pippa Harris’s life, work and family. This is reflected in her Cotswold house, where Emma Burns of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler has...