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  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Interiors
    Nip mud in the bud: the best boot-room accessories

    Clever tidying tactics for when you return from a walk

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    The home in 50 objects
    The home in 50 objects #26: the Ercol chair

    It emerged from a time of constrained construction into an era of simpler and lighter Modernist design

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    The home in 50 objects
    The home in 50 objects #25: Wedgwood vase (1933)

    How the father of English potters created a ‘Georgian superbrand’

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    How to find happiness – a 7-point plan
    ‘Design should make people happy’

    Designer Martin Brudnizki’s new feelgood furniture collection channels the playful maximalism of the Swedish Grace design movement 

  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
    Luke Edward Hall
    New year, new zing: how to jazz up your home in January

    The festive hodgepodge has been put away and it is an ideal time for a refresh

  • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
    Residential
    The biggest residential design trends for 2021

    Homes will connect more with nature, while minimalist decor and open-plan living will be shown the door

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Paris, je t’aime: why we’re falling for plaster once more

    This most sensual of materials is being reinvented in highly desirable forms

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    The home in 50 objects
    The home in 50 objects #22: Utility furniture permit (1948)

    The furniture-buying scheme was part of the wartime rationing of many goods

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    Interiors
    Party like it’s 2020 with a small but sensational Christmas get-together

    Bring cheer and elegance to your home with these accessories

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  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Elegantly wasted: the designers turning trash to treasure

    Time to bring the world’s plastic problem to the table… and the chair, and the vase

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    How To Spend It
    A Gio Ponti pilgrimage in Italy

    On the 50th anniversary of the Concattedrale Gran Madre di Dio, we pay homage to “the father of modern Italian design”

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    Interiors
    Putting a gloss on it: why high-end paint sales surged under lockdown

    Home workers found that a fresh lick of colour is an ideal way to uplift, provoke and express social aspiration

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    The home in 50 objects
    The home in 50 objects #20: Murphy radio, model A30C

    Radio’s heyday in UK life ran from King George V’s Christmas message in 1932 to the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    Luke Edward Hall
    Can lino really be cool again?

    Forgive and forget its grim reputation — embrace it but be bold

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    Architecture
    How an architect reinvented a ‘white box’ in a Modernist high-rise

    Ben Allen has created warmth and homeliness in his flat in London’s Keeling House

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    Interiors
    Upcycled and uplifting furnishings to update your home

    These reupholstered and rejigged items add decorative zing

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    How the Memphis movement made kitsch cool

    The Italian design group may have been ‘an exuberant cocktail of bad taste’, but its influence lives on

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    Residential
    How to furnish a fireside

    From rugs and sofas to pictures and pokers, accessories and furniture that will make the most of a cosy fireplace

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    Luke Edward Hall
    How to make a statement bathroom

    Colourful, unconventional and, naturally, chic: three qualities to aim for

  • Monday, 9 November, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Memphis alumnus and eternal optimist Peter Shire on his life in technicolour

    The LA art legend shares the secrets of his personal style

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Hot to handle: how the humble cup became craft clickbait

    Cosy, comfy – perfect for cradling: we all want to hug a mug right now

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    Luke Edward Hall
    Seasonal decoration is not just for Christmas

    Bring elements of the outdoors inside to reflect the changing seasons

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Inside Isabel Ettedgui’s 15th-century ‘playground’

    The cult Mayfair store Connolly is a paean to a sleek aesthetic. But its owner’s home of 20 years is a ‘ye olde Tudor’ cottage in Petersham. Here, she opens her doors for the first time

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    House & Home
    Sears, Argos and Habitat: a catalogue of our lives

    Now being supplanted by the internet, this ‘department store in print’ is a window on our past desires and culture

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    Review
    Margaret Calvert at the Design Museum: signs in tune with their times

    A new London show celebrates the influential creator of familiar symbols

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