Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant began renting the farmhouse near Firle, East Sussex, in 1916. Both were central to the Bloomsbury Group and, with Roger Fry, to the Omega Workshops, which set out to dissolve the line between fine and decorative art. At
LOVEABLE ARTWORK Painted in 1955, Willem de Kooning’s Composition marks a decisive transition: from the confrontational figures of his celebrated Women series to the Abstract Urban Landscapes that followed between 1955 and 1958. “The la
Inside Nicola Del Roscio’s home in Gaeta. Revisiting the private world he built with Cy Twombly. Del Roscio brought Twombly to this coastal town in 1979. Twombly later built his own house and studio nearby, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. He c
Amanda Sopuluchukwu Orakwue Offor (b. 2000, Chicago) @amanda_offor is a Nigerian-American artist working across painting, drawing, ceramics, glass and metal. Having begun her BFA at Cornell University, she has now graduated from the Slade School of F
Martina Mondadori and Ashley Hicks’s Milan apartment is less a decorated interior than a study in how taste is inherited, translated and made one’s own, and perhaps the most intimate expression of the world Mondadori has created through C
Inside Daniel Rueda’s apartment at Palazzo Bonaventura in Rome, where Renaissance architecture, modern art, and restrained collecting coexist with remarkable ease. Published by The World of Interiors with photographs by @matthieusalvaing, the
Few artistic partnerships have shaped our understanding of colour as profoundly as Anni and Josef Albers. After leaving the Bauhaus following the rise of Nazism, the couple emigrated to the United States in 1933, where they transformed modern art ed
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High in the Swiss Alps, in the village of Sent, legendary Italian art dealer Gian Enzo Sperone has turned a restored 16th-century manor into something closer to an autobiography than a house. And personally, this is the kind of home and art collectio
The art world runs on a currency it calls the eye, and the eye is only valuable if nobody asks where it came from. Listen to how the people who move markets describe their own judgment. “I just knew.” “It stopped me.” “
Revisiting Terry de Gunzburg’s Manhattan apartment feels different now. When W Magazine entered the home in 2014, it was framed as an interior shaped by instinct, colour and biography: Terry de Gunzburg, founder of By Terry and former creative
Inside Roy Lichtenstein’s studio, Pop Art was not borrowed from comics. It was engineered. Lichtenstein took the visual language of mass culture: speech bubbles, romance panels, war scenes, advertisements, Ben-Day dots. He slowed it down until
For the love of Jenny Holzer. “PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT.” Few artists understood the public nervous system before the internet did. Before text became content, before the feed became confession, Holzer was already placing language wh
Giorgio Armani’s farmhouse in Forte dei Marmi is a study in power without display. From the outside, it remains almost disarmingly modest: a rustic Tuscan house set among maritime pines near the sea. Inside, Armani transformed it with the same
Linda Pinto inherited the Paris home of her brother, the decorator Alberto Pinto, and remade it in her own language. Still grand, still layered, but softer and more lived-in. Overlooking the Seine in the 7th, it carries the Pinto signature at full vo
Jonathan Anderson @jonathan.anderson second Dior @Dior Haute Couture collection came with an art-history trail worth following. Lynda Benglis was the starting point. Her sculptural folds, knots, pleated metal works, and luminous Peacock series echoe
Gilot, Picasso, Miró, O’Keeffe, Emin, Haring, de Saint Phalle, Mitchell, Twombly, Hockney, Warhol, Frankenthaler, Basquiat… all relaxing at the beach. Ah how much I love the summer! #theartbystander #beachlife #beachlover #modern