The World of Interiors - September 2022

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CONTRIBUTORS SQUALLPAPERS
Meet some of the writers and Explore new worlds on your
photographers in this issue walls with designs that will fire
the far shores of your mind.
Miranda Sinclair sets sail
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CHOP AND CHANGE
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Hearth invader – light sabres at the ready in Nicolas Ghesquière’s ANTENNAE ROUNDUP HEV
town house in the Marais! Come with us on an odyssey in the fashion The best supporting actors of AL C
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DEEDA-LICIOUS, DEEDA-
AESTHETE’S LIBRARY
Billy LECTABLE Whether conjuring
In the waspish memoir
Baldwin Remembers the Petit Trianon or Gustav III’s
(1974),a few
pavilion, Deeda Blair creates
ghastlyclients receive payback
mises-en-scène for meals.
59 Mitchell Owen visits the taste
maven in her Manhattan haven
VISITORS’ BOOK
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The main stories in this issue
SERIOUS PURSUITS
Auctions, antique fairs
and diverting activities
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GETTY FABULOUS
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mansions, Ann Getty deployed
a curator’s erudition and
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bottomless pockets to create a
Merchandise and events
richesse
home of nonpareil , as
from round the world
connoisseurs tell Mitchell Owens
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INSPIRATION
How to recreate some of the 60 92
design effects in this issue,
by Gareth Wyn Davies and
MAISON ACCOMPLISHED PIED A TERRACOTTA
Ariadne Fletcher
In fashion designer Nicolas Alice Gavalet’s home might as
Ghesquière’s Paris house, sci-fi well be made of gingerbread,
masks and Memphis Group what with its bold, toothsome
furniture meet parquet and décor and her playful, fairy-tale
124 damask walls. Hamish Bowles ceramics. It’s eye candy, but it
enjoys the thrill of time travel nourishes Jean Louis Gaillemin
EXHIBITION DIARY
Armitage: thanks, Clendinning’s
innings, the lens of Lord
Lennox, Duncan’s hunks, plus
Amy Sherlock’s listings
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THE FLORAL HIGH POSTE MODERN BEDTIME FOR BEBE
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GROUND Amid Piedmont’s While ‘snail mail’ may now feel Decorator Christian ‘Bébé’
peaks lies the ancestral estate of like a thing of the past, Palermo’s Bérard was a creature of Paris’s
OBJECT LESSON Paolo Pejrone. The octogenarian 1930s post office, streaked with crepuscular demi-monde.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s gardener tells Marella Caracciolo marble and go-faster murals, Indeed, as a new show attests, a
layered portrait captures a Chia about his horticultural offered a jolt of Futurism. dark whimsy shades all his work.
child’s inner life, says Hilton Als heroes and the furrow he’s hoed Michael Webb reads its zip code Amy Sherlock beds herself in
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HILTON ALS OBERTO AND J. ATTI GILI
For writer and theatre critic For Oberto and J. Atti,
Hilton, life with four older photography allows
sisters meant ‘writing was a ‘invaluable insight to be
way for me to get a word in gathered that words might
edgewise’. A professor at UC not express or allow to be
FLORIAN DAGUET-BRESSON Berkeley and Columbia, Hilton discovered’. For this issue,
Art dealer and curator Florian spent hours as a child ‘observing is currently also curating an they reveal the home of
the feathers of birds’ and is inspired by ‘unusualness and exhibition about Njideka their longtime friend Paolo
sophistication’. He now adds another feather to his cap as he Akunyili Crosby. For this Pejrone (page 74), a place
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joins as contributing editor. Florian presents the home of issue’s Object Lesson (page replete with things that they
artist Alice Gavalet for this issue (page 92) and ‘would suggest 144), he captures the artist’s feel serve as a reminder that
everyone have a piece of her in their house. It’s full of joy.’ ‘sheer energy and invention’. ‘life is full and pleasurable’.
OSKAR PROCTOR DAISY GARNETT
‘It was perhaps inevitable that Daisy claims it was ‘nosiness’
I would pursue this as a career,’ that first drew her to write, a
says photographer Oskar, who curiosity that has since taken
always went with his mother – her far and wide, including to
an art director – on shoots. Syria for a pilgrimage story
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An admirer of former WoI inspired by Lady Jane Digby. MARELLA CARACCIOLO CHIA MIT
stylist Miranda Sinclair, Once again pulling up a chair Marella Caracciolo Chia began writing for WoI under founding LI S
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Oskar teamed up with her for alongside photographer Tessa editor Min Hogg and has been ‘uncovering interesting stories in AIT:
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this month’s Swatch feature Traeger for the monthly Table unexpected places’ ever since. For this issue, she took a quick RT
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(page 28), inspired by segment (page 38), Daisy – break from working on her new book to visit the home of her S
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‘the light in some small a keen gardener herself – friend Paolo Pejrone (page 74), a place she has been watching N
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JMW Turner oil paintings’. celebrates the humble tomato. evolve over the years. ‘An inspiring experience,’ she says. L
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