IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN, for our yearly holiday sildeshows, which you love so, and this year, it’s snowy white trees adorned in pastel ornaments and toile-covered rooms with chic leopard print carpets, gifts wrapped in white and candlelight, firelight and mistletoe …
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?
THE MARBLE is the startlingly lovely star of this Notting Hill kitchen by interior design firm Blakes London from the London...
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.
THE MADRID-BASED Pablo Paniagua architecture and interior studio is comprised of Pablo, Álvaro and Gustavo Paniagua, who began working together in 2003, with Pablo as a decorator, Álvaro as a business manager and Gustavo as an architect. Over the years, the studio has completed projects in Madrid, London, Seville, Santo Domingo, Geneva, Marrakech, Barcelona, San Francisco and Malaga.
Animal print has been a part of fashion and décor for many years: well-travelled, worldly and exotic, it was a symbol of wealth and status. Fabrics with patterns and colours imitating the coats of animals were made fashionable as early as the eighteenth century, and it is thought that animal print became popular in the United States in the late 1960’s, during the Bohemian movement.