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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FROM THE EDITOR

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

BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS • RÉMY MISHON dreams up three playful schemes for children’s bedrooms, with bold colours, eye-catching patterns and hand-crafted accessories

wise buys LAMPS AND SHADES • BRADLEY PALMER presents an array of illuminating ideas for stylish table light and lampshade combinations

LET THERE BE LIGHT • In celebration of long winter evenings, RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME’s inviting schemes are enhanced by colourful textiles and the soft glow of lamps and candles that illuminate our interiors after dark

design ideas for CEILINGS • CHRISTABEL CHUBB looks up to an often neglected area of a room and shows how it can be a decorative feature in its own right

Interior designer VEERE GRENNEY on COMFORT

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Out & about

Sourcebook KITCHENS • NONI WARE’s round-up of the latest designs that combine practicality with style ranges from hand-painted classic cabinetry to versatile tiles

The anatomy of a room by KATHARINE PARAVICINI • The List By House & Garden is our indispensable guide to design professionals. Take inspiration from this interiors scheme and products from some of its UK members, selected by Olivia Capaldi

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Outside interests

FOCUS ON: Seed sowing aids • Get ready to sow your seeds this spring with a few items that will make the process easier

Words and pictures

Art scene

Three more to see…

PEOPLE • THIS MONTH: The intrepid creative duo whose collaborative artwork reflects their response to the call of the wild; a young prize-winning portrait painter with a fascination for fabric; and an enlightened nursery owner on a mission to outlaw peat

Lifestyle FORCES OF NATURE • Since their art school days, Olly Williams and Suzi Winstanley have been on a mission to document the fragility and beauty of the natural world – from remote locations to wild animals – through their distinctive collaborative work

Artists in their studio JAMIE CORETH • FIONA McKENZIE JOHNSTON and photographer JOSHUA MONAGHAN visit the painter of the first official joint portrait of the then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

Garden series: part 11 FOR PEAT’S SAKE • Continuing her series of profiles, CLARE FOSTER digs deep into Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants’ pioneering move towards sustainable compost for potting and propagation with nursery founder Rosy Hardy

Stories • THIS MONTH: An American icon, a Norfolk powerhouse and two rural British boltholes, plus a heavenly garden in France and glorious magnolias in Cornwall

American Beauty • A sympathetic renovation has seen Louis Kahn’s iconic mid-century Esherick House in Philadelphia become a stylish home fit for 21st-century life

The wonder of Wolterton • Serial renovators of historic houses on a grand scale, the dynamic design duo Peter Sheppard and Keith Day took on their greatest challenge yet with exquisite 18th-century Wolterton Hall in north Norfolk, which had lain uninhabited for almost 30 years

ROOT CAUSE • When interior designer Lucinda Griffith fell for a cottage that took her back to her...