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 shows us what has caught her eye this month

Top of the glass • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME highlights the finest quality glassware–from exquisite crystal to coloured tumblers and contemporary carafes

CHIC COASTERS • FAYE AARONSON lays out appealing affordable designs in a wide variety of materials

GOLDEN GLOW • Drawing on Provençal and Moorish influences, RÉMY MISHON creates summery schemes in which relaxed linens contrast with striking antiques

DINING NOOKS • The desire for informal meals and comfortable, multipurpose kitchens has led these to become a more familiar feature–especially in compact spaces. RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME shares some successful examples

INSIDER

Out & about

LIGHT TOUCH

PARTY TIME

SITTING ROOMS • NONI WARE focuses on the latest furniture and accessories offering style and comfort

LINES OF DESIRE • The pattern of the ‘Channels’ Tibetan wool and metallic silk rug by Kelly Wearstler for The Rug Company reflects the American designer’s passion for street art and graphic design. Shown in copper, it costs from £4,242 for 1.22 x 1.83 metres or £1,900 a square metre. 020 3369 3912; therugcompany.com

The List • Olivia Capaldi highlights the work of our directory members–from a landscape designer to outdoor furniture specialists

Outside interests

Words and pictures

Art scene

PEOPLE • THIS MONTH: A hospitality and sustainability champion riding high in Colombia; an artist and decidedly urban legend; a historic building specialist painting a greener future; and the Mallorcan manufacturer still on the tiles after 90 years

BEARING FRUIT • From her hip Blue Apple beach club to her forward-thinking Green Apple environmental and social enterprise, Portia Hart’s move from Suffolk to Colombia has proved as beneficial for the local community as it has for her personally

DAVID REMFRY • FIONA McKENZIE JOHNSTON and photographer JOSHUA MONAGHAN visit the painter in Kensington, where he has lived and worked, on and off, for four decades

SMART AS PAINT • CLARE FOSTER meets Michiel Brouns, whose experience in historic building preservation, and concern about the environmental damage caused by petrochemical formulas, inspired him to launch the UK’s leading manufacturer of linseed paint

HUGUET • As the Mallorcan tile manufacturer celebrates its 90th anniversary, Biel Huguet, grandson of the firm’s founder, talks to JESSICA SALTER about his pride at preserving this traditional skill

Stories • THIS MONTH: Houses in France, the Greek islands and the Cotswolds; Sophie Conran’s Wiltshire garden; and a striking modern planting scheme

French leave • A Provençal stone farmhouse with its origins in the 17th century and a glamorous past has been renovated by its owner, the furniture designer Victoria Stainow, to create an inviting home and the perfect showcase for the chic pieces she sells through her company

Greece lightening • It is hard to imagine that this island villa was once flashy and overdone, so beautifully have interior designers Martin Hulbert and Jay Grierson introduced pale tones, natural textures and pared-back furnishings to create spaces...