THE WORLD OF INTERIORS

Queen Anne Grace

Every corner tells a story in the early 18th-century Greenwich home of artist Emily Patrick and her framer husband, Michael. The couple’s Crooms Hill residence, one of the oldest thoroughfares in London, is the latest chapter in an intriguing narrative of artistic inhabitants

Culture

Editor’s Letter

With the May 2025 issue comes a special selection of the very best in kitchens and bathrooms, from a public loo on New Zealand’s North Island to an outdoor kitchen replete with panoramic views. Elsewhere, we marvel at groovy short-term lets in Paris, and travel to Mongolia at the invite of a family balancing technology with tradition

Architecture

Corb Your Enthusiasm

How Otto Saumarez Smith’s home in central London became a faithful homage to Modernist aesthetics, from Festival of Britain flourishes to those early-era Corbusian colours

FILM

Manners Maketh the Manor

Every historic stately home in possession of its original Medieval features is in want of a good family to live there full-time and make it feel complete. And after years as something of a spare part, Haddon Hall in Derbyshire – aka ‘the most perfect house to survive from the Middle Ages’ – finally has one

Contributors

Aileen Reid

Writer

Megan Dalton

Photographer

Jasper Fry

Photographer

Liz Elliot

Writer

Kate Dyson

Writer

Kathryn Scanlan

Writer

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Interiors

The Jack Vettriano we knew

Fusty dark-brown furniture, a rickety bed and overflowing ashtrays: at home in Edinburgh with the great outsider of Scottish art, who has just died aged 73