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Christmas is a time when tradition really comes to the fore—it’s a time to create wonderful new traditions and to revisit classic ones that you have enjoyed for years. Decorating your home for the season and preparing gifts and food for friends and family offer some of the loveliest ways to enjoy traditions old and new in your home during this holidays.
As memories of summer fade and autumn slowly gives way to winter, it feels natural to want to curl up somewhere warm and cosy, preferably beside a fire with a good book. And what better place to retreat than to a storybook cottage complete with thatched roof nestled in the English countryside?
There are few buildings that can rival a French château for sheer romance. I featured the Château la Durantie in the Dordogne region of South West France a few months back here and recently stumbled on some glorious new photographs by the wonderfully talented Katie Mitchell that I just had to share.
You’ve just come in from a day’s skiing and your ski lodge is the perfect hideaway in which to warm up and unwind after your strenuous day on the mountain. Flickering candlelight, a dark neutral palette enlivened with warm tones of amber and amethyst and lots of soft inviting textures are the ingredients of this magical and cosy interior.
One of the key spaces in Peter Marino’s recently unveiled Dior store in London (above) is a magnificent light-filled double height space known as the winter garden. Adorning its walls is treillage or latticework which makes the space feel romantic and playful and gives that sense of being in a garden while being indoors.