House & Garden - JANUARY ISSUE

PLUS FREE MAGAZINE – GOURMET TRAVEL 2011, FULL OF IRRISITIBLE FOOD & EXCEPTIONAL DESTINATIONS

SHIPSHAPE AND BRISTOL FASHION
A designer of yachts and private planes, the owner of this tiny London pied-à-terre has exploited every centimetre to create a sleek and efficient living space that seems much larger than it is.

TALE OF THE UNEXPECTED
Behind the conventional façade of her Georgian terrace house in Kent, designer Sue Timney has created an idiosyncratic interior, shot with bold colour against the background of her signature black and white.

IN HIS ELEMENT
At his newly extended shop in Bloomsbury, Robert Kime indulges his passion for beauty and antiquity, assembling an ever-changing cornucopia of exotic objects.

TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CASE STUDY
The architect of this house in upstate New York was inspired by California’s mid-twentieth-century Case Study houses, to build a home for its owner’s mid-century pieces, completed by a sympathetic interior scheme by designer Tricia Guild.

LIFESTYLE
Liz Elliot meets William Lobkowicz, who moved to the Czech Republic 20 years ago to reclaim, restore and open to the public his family’s magnificent palaces and art collections.

PLUS: PART 1 OF THE HOUSE & GARDEN GUIDE TO THE LEADING GARDEN DESIGNERS OF TODAY.

The January 2011 issue of HOUSE & GARDEN is available on newsstands from 2nd December

The World of Interiors - JANUARY ISSUE

PARTY LINES
Once occupied by the Fulham Conservative Club, a derelict ballroom in west London subsequently found its way into the capable – if radical – hands of collectors Paolo and Maddalena Kind. Their policy? To replace the faded grandeur with clean white walls, light-filled spaces and Minimalist works by the likes of Donald Judd. Charlotte Edwards give them her vote.

HOUSEHOLD GOD
With its pastel colour scheme, Rococo Gothic decoration and furnishings designed to match, Shobdon church feels more like a drawing room than a place of worship. Built in 1752 by the Bateman family in the park of their Herefordshire estate, this Georgian wonder seems intended to make prayer a pleasure.

TRIALS AND TRUBUTES
Ashley Hicks’ bolthole in the country serves as a laboratory for some of his most daring experiments, from a self-painted mural of frangipani trees to a bathtub plastered with huge Roman numerals. Moreover, instead of rebelling against his illustrious father, David, the decorator has here offered touching homages – just witness those flamboyant stripes in the library says Annabel Freyberg.

GRANDFATHER’S FOOTSTEPS
After childhood summers spent dodging wild animals en route to the pit toilet, Robert Wells later returned permanently to take over the ancestral cattle ranch in the wilds of Kenya. By tackling the rickety, termite-infested homestead he showed the same bravery as his granddad Doug, who had staked his claim to the arid landscape some 50 years earlier.

TINTED SPECTACLE
It is a common misconception that Le Corbusier only had eyes for white – in fact he designed carefully modulated colour scales to enhance the spatial dimensions of his interiors. Restorers at his 1923 Villa La Roche, outside Paris, detected and recreated 17 shades, from raw sienna to salmon pink. The finished result is anything but a pale imitation, concludes Philippe Seulliet.

PLUS: A Damascus conversion, and the renovated 18th-century Château de La Ferté St Aubin in the Loire.

The January 2011 issue of The World of Interiors is available on newsstands from Thursday 9th December.