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Editor’s Letter • September 2026
ANTENNAE
What’s in the air this month
Carnal Desirables • Bodily form always follows function for some designers. Full of esprit de corps, David Lipton eyes up the physical features they’ve objectified – in a good way – as home wares
Door Belles • Could your hardware stand to look a little more alluring? Never fear: Rose Eaglesfield has gone out on a limb to help, with knobs on. Be it lavish levers or cabinet pulls, butt hinges or escutcheons, arm yourself with metalwork that leaves you feeling bold as brass.
Flow and Repeat! • Some colourful, high-energy patterned fabric could be the huge flex your pad needs right now, whether it’s draped as curtains, covering cushions or even, as here, turned into a bespoke yoga mat. Just hold that thought – and breath – as Ruth Sleightholme pays salutation to om furnishings with their very own life force. Namaste.
Romancing the Stone • Audrey Marie Munson was the face, and figure, of early 20th-century New York. At a time when architects were keen to lend the metropolis a monumentality akin to ancient Greece, her sculpted form graced bridges and ballrooms alike. Prior to 1919, when scandal curdled her success, was she the first supermodel of the modern age, wonders Rosalind Jana.
Moor’s the Pity • If you thought ‘ornamental blackness’ died out with the slavery and servitude it glorified you couldn’t be more wrong. To our collective shame, jewellery and furniture perpetuating deplorable racist tropes are still being made in some of Europe’s finest luxury ateliers. It behoves all of us, says Adrienne Childs, to clamour for their abolition
The Compleat Dangler • In a 200-year-old barn near the River Derwent in Cumbria, keen fisherman Monty Lewis has parlayed his childhood obsession with traditional Scottish dress into a full-time calling – the contemplative creation of clan-tastic sporrans. Now these really are pouches to pose in, says occasional kilt-wearer Hugo Macdonald.
Noten Bene • A guest of Dries van Noten and Patrick Vangheluwe in their palazzo apartment on the Grand Canal, Hamish Bowles explores a few of Venice’s cultural highlights
Rude Awakening • Get the heart racing with our limited-edition, one-off publication dedicated to sex in the interiors world. Timed to coincide with our body-themed September issue (though sold separately), Top Shelf sizzles with essays on Catherine the Great’s obscene furniture and the erotics of home renovation, among others, and an eye-popping parade of saucy images, from priapic Roman wind chimes to Allen Jones’s fetishised females. Slip under the covers!
Jung at Heart
The Joy of Jellyfish
Ugandan Discursions
Wulz from the Vaults
Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide
VISITOR’S BOOK
HOLY WIT • Lydia Corbett, once known as ‘the girl with the ponytail’ after modelling for Pablo Picasso in the coastal town of Vallauris in 1954, has long used her family’s Provençal farmhouse as a canvas on which to express her playful vision and deep spirituality. Every flea-market object, picture and piece of ancestral furniture adds another anecdote to the story of the house, which has seen the full tumult of French history, from monks hidden from persecution during the...