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The Polish-born artist and designer Małgorzata Bany has a peculiar (and very particular) obsession with off-white objects. The one between us on her dining table – an ostrich egg from Germany – is a case in...

Grab a piece of the terrazzo trend for under a tenner with this elegant vase Speckled vase, £6, by George Home, from asda.com FacebookTwitterPinterest Jett table lamp, £29, made.com FacebookTwitterPinterest A terrazzo planter in paper for...

Like a corner of northern Italy transposed to Northumbria, Susi Bellamy’s house has all the confidence and swagger of a modern palazzo. Tousle-haired busts gaze at gilded frames and silvery mirrors keep company with Susi’s own...

By Kim Velsey So you think you have finally found the right apartment? Not so fast. Many New York City landlords expect to see some hefty financial documentation from prospective tenants and their guarantors. To increase your...

By Kim Velsey Of the many new arrivals who pour into New York City each spring with new degrees, new jobs, or simply new life plans, Patrick Laflamme thought that he would be in a fairly good...

They might look like slums or homes for garden gnomes. Those peculiar settlements of tiny little houses with allotment gardens, known as the “Schrebergarten,” are a typically German phenomenon. While “urban gardening” recently turned into every...

Sienna wallpaper, £330 for two 10m rolls, bluebellgray.com FacebookTwitterPinterest Paint cushion, £70, by Tom Dixon, from amara.com FacebookTwitterPinterest Rick Stein Coves of Cornwall Harlyn bay jug, £45, johnlewis.com FacebookTwitterPinterest Oiva mug, £16, by Marimekko, fromskandium.com FacebookTwitterPinterest Blue lampshade, £220,...

Flora Bathurst is surveying her back garden with dismay: scattered on the lawn are a bright red robot, a Nerf gun, a toy trolley and a large plastic cash register. “I have tried to do my...

Bachelorhood is usually associated with excess rather than restraint: the takeaway-strewn coffee table, the generously filled laundry basket. But when Sophie Worthington met her husband-to-be, Greville, he was, she recalls, “wafting around like a lone monk,...

BY DANIELLE FOX eminist and feminine aren’t always descriptors that co-exist, but in Sarah Carson’s one-bedroom home in Hell’s Kitchen, both adjectives live in pink and perfect harmony. Carson is the founder of Leota, a fashion company that...