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The World of Interiors

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ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Finial Decision • Want to bring your window shopping to a happy full stop? Then do touch David Lipton’s curtain knobs with a ten-foot pole

Chairborne Division • If you fancy some furnishing fabrics of the linear kind, jump on WoI’s (aerial) band wagon. And there’s no need to wing it–earning their stripes are squadron leader Miranda Sinclair and her crew of hedge-hopping heroes. Chocks away!

The Gleam Team • Bouncing from pillar to post in your quest for de luxe tableware? If so, that mirrors what happens to light when it encounters a polished plate, burnished bowl or shimmering cocktail shaker–stuff silver surfer Gianluca Longo has taken a shine to.

Silty Pleasures • Magpie-like artist/jeweller Emily Frances Barrett gets her kicks (as well as much of her material) by trawling riverbanks for water-weathered gems–that is, when she’s not pounding the streets in search of stand-out roadside rejectamenta. Alice Kemp-Habib sifts through her joyfully tactile practice for further touchstones.

Burlington’s Arcadia • A new exhibition on flowers at Chatsworth has Hamish Bowles reminiscing about his own curatorial experience at the Derbyshire stately home

MiSSiON CRiTiCAL!!! Wallflowers • Tired of all the shrinking violets, David Lipton argues the interiors world could do with bolder commentators who refuse to beat about the bush

The Kilim Fields

Ghost Storeys

Super Nova

Somatic Responses

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

Art & Antiques

What’s in the air in the art world

Poetry in Motion • Leaping from strength to strength, Liliane Lijn–likely the first woman artist to have used electric motors in her work–is every bit as dynamic as her corpus. Her latest career highpoint has only fomented the fizz, as her Camden base, which hums with the vivacity of her varied output, bears witness. Gabrielle Schwarz catches her on the fly.

VISITOR’S BOOK

MARINE CORPUS • Some years ago, Scott Houston McBee started casting around for a serene new space that could serve both as a shipshape studio and an informal gallery for his body of work, which is often nautical in nature. Once the artist found a flat that floated his boat–sailing under the radar in a Manhattan maisonette–all there was left to do was enlist his partner, interior designer James Andrew, to get his naval base ready for action. Fully on board with the results, Mitchell Owens reports for duty.

THE JOY OF SETS • The visual delight that comes from family resemblances is on full display in Farang Wren’s Victorian house in Hackney, where clusters of gesso putti, French milk jugs and artists’ palettes are forever catching the eye. Now throw in her stock in trade–room after room of antique picture frames in serried ranks… ‘I do like things being in a group, that’s true,’ the dealer admits to Ruth Guilding.

SLIDE SHOW • Nodding to her east Asian heritage, the shoji doors installed in Christine Sun Kim’s Brutalist flat in Berlin help the artist (and her family) feel at home. After all, if one is deaf facing the ‘foreign country’ of a rigidly aural society, laying down strong domestic roots takes on greater significance. The sleek partitions on...