I have always believed that the most compelling interiors are not decorated into submission. They are assembled slowly, almost instinctively, through encounters, obsessions, memories and objects that might appear incompatible until someone with a ver
I recently visited Gerhard Richter’s Overpainted Photographs at LUMA Arles, and found myself returning to these small works with more intensity than to many paintings ten times their size. They begin with ordinary colour snapshots: family gathe
In Bogotá, interior designer and collector Lina Botero Zea @linaboteroz daughter of the late Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, has created a home in which inheritance is neither preserved at a distance nor reduced to a famous su
Today, 4 September, I entered Room 13 with Ylva Snöfrid @ylvasnofrid one of the artists whose work I feel most profoundly connected to. The date carried its own quiet geometry: the ninth month and the fourth day, 9 + 4 = 13. The final room, the
What interests me about Rosa Park @rosaliapark is that she has never simply worked with beautiful objects. She has built entire contexts around them, shaping the way we encounter a photograph, a piece of furniture, a building, a landscape or a work o
The women in Florïne Ïmo’s world are having a good time. They lounge, play, pose, pump petrol, ride motorcycles and carousels, appearing as angels, witches, sluts, princesses and girlbosses, sacred and ridiculous, vulnerable and dange
La Sierrazuela did not begin as an Andalusian lifestyle fantasy. Built in 1750 as a retreat for Jesuit monks, later inhabited by a Sufi community and found on Idealista with mustard-yellow walls and dated fittings, the cortijo outside Arcos de la Fro
Cy Twombly did not use words to make his work easier to read. He allowed them to drift, fracture and disappear until language began to behave like memory. In Proem, made in Rome on 23 November 1983, the title and date float above a pale, cloud-like
In Naples, history is never kept at a respectful distance. It remains visible, inhabited and slightly unruly, and nowhere more seductively than inside Palazzo Cellamare, whose rooms have absorbed centuries of architecture, art and cultural life. Its
Before it was Maison d’Artiste, this was a bergerie, one of the stone sheepfolds that still punctuate the olive groves above Saint-Paul-de-Vence, until French artist and interior designer Jacqueline Morabito took it apart in 1995 and rebuilt it
When Arnold Newman photographed Frank Stella in his New York studio in 1967, Stella was only thirty, yet already one of the most consequential painters of his generation. He sits low in the frame, cigarette between his fingers and paint across his c
William Fletcher was only three years out of architecture school when he designed this house in 1953, his first fully realised residence and the home he created for himself, his wife Joyce and their family on almost two wooded acres in Dunthorpe, bet
The Barcelona Pavilion is one of the most influential buildings of the twentieth century, yet the original stood for less than a year. Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich as Germany’s national pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona I
Returning to CHART @chart_artfair feels less like entering the international fair circuit than checking in on the Nordic art world itself. Now in its fourteenth edition, it has become a classic of the regional calendar, familiar without feeling tire
Bernar Venet is best known for bending industrial steel into monumental arcs and indeterminate lines. At the Fondation Venet in the Var, those forms enter a more intimate register. Home, studio, sculpture park and exhibition spaces occupy the same gr
In the New York townhouse of @jordan_roth, maximalism becomes autobiography. Created with Haynes-Roberts over three years for Roth, his husband, the writer Richie Jackson, and their son Levi, the house replaces the wood, steel and dark Prada suits of