THE WORLD OF INTERIORS

The Line of Beauty

Though the pink boiseries and Ottoman-style fumoir were down to men, feisty widows and orphaned daughters gave Este’s Villa Albrizzi its mystique, as Marella Caracciolo Chia reports

Culture

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

Explore

Heir’s Rocks

In the Roucas Blanc suburb of Marseille, a forgotten craft form born of the Rococo blends Portland cement with rural exoticism. The site in question, now run by the next generation of a family that’s overseen it for 40 years, has just been officially labelled a jardin remarquable by the French ministry of culture

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

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Megan Dalton

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Jasper Fry

Photographer

Liz Elliot

Writer

Kate Dyson

Writer

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Writer

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