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  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    HTSI
    What shade of glassware are you?

    Carafes, coupes and spoons are more hyper-coloured than ever

    Helen Mardahl Studio The Signature Glass With a Twist, $430
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Priya Khanchandani
    Kids’ furniture is a con

    Parents have been indoctrinated to think that buying child-specific designs is a question of survival. It’s not

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Architecture
    Inside the hidden Modernist houses of São Paulo

    Aberto, a new annual art show staged amid the fragile remnants of the city’s architectural legacy, opens up striking unseen interiors

    brutalist concrete open space with stone sculptures, leather sofas and bright blue, yellow and red walls
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Interview
    Henry Steiner — the graphic designer behind ‘brand Hong Kong’

    The creator of classic branding on living in the city — and how it inspired visuals for some of its top companies

    A black-and-white photo of a man positioning his hands in front of his face to form a framed view of his eyes only
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Interiors
    How shell decor ditched the naff tag

    From twee coastal aesthetic to high-design embellishment — it’s seashell interiors 2.0

  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Gardens
    The swimming pool reimagined and rewilded

    Glitzy and azure is making way for a quiet, organic aesthetic: plant-fringed edges, silvery decking and lake-green linings melding into their settings

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  • Saturday, 27 July, 2024
    ObituaryKenneth Grange
    Kenneth Grange, industrial designer, 1929-2024

    From trains to fountain pens, style never trumped functional substance in the products for which he became famous

    Kenneth Grange in 1962
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Interiors
    The next-gen dealers putting a rocket under antiques

    They started trading furniture for fun on social media; now their rule-breaking pluck is taking root

    a woman leans on a chair among dark wood furniture as sunlight streams through tall windows
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Interiors
    Still cool in 2084? Design experts predict the interiors icons of the future

    From chicken bricks to modular sofas — as a new exhibition exalts the designs of the past, these are forecast to be loved in 60 years’ time

  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    At Home with the FT
    Artist Rana Begum: ‘The space is calming and overwhelming at the same time’

    An award-winning home-studio overlooking the wildest of London’s cemeteries echoes the artist’s installations focusing on form and light in flux

    a woman on a staircase with transparent balustrade
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    HTSI
    Dreaming of a daybed?

    The most stylish ways to slouch – and slumber

    Dusty Deco V Daybed, €2,240
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    HTSIThe HTSI adrenaline issue
    Architect Eugene Tssui: ‘I would like to have been a benevolent dictator’

    The architect and Olympian gets pumped on pull-ups, Przewalski’s horse dung and Superman

    Eugene Tssui at home in Emeryville, California
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    InterviewAt Home with the FT
    Artist Landon Metz: ‘It’s hard to imagine living in a normal home’

    The 19th-century Gothic Revival church is a modern-day domestic sanctuary for the Brooklyn-based artist

    A man standing in an open front doorway of a red brick building with cast iron railings
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Luke Edward Hall
    Renovating? Always let the decorative elements do the singing and dancing

    Ask yourself what stories you want your home to tell — then let them run wild

  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Interiors
    Rediscovering Geoffrey Bennison: pioneer of the quirky British interior

    Why don’t more people know about the antiques dealer turned interior designer? Forty years after his death, his offbeat aesthetic is a rich seam of inspiration for those who do

    Geoffrey sits with books open in a room with tapestries, Chinese vases and lacquered artwork
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Gardens
    Garden designers reveal their blots on the landscape

    Plastic chairs, Pinterest boards and ping pong tables top the list of pet peeves among client requests

  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Edwin Heathcote
    What a child’s toy can tell us about how we want to live

    Mattel’s Dreamhouses have tracked changes in design and desire, perhaps even more closely than the doll

    Pink double-storey A-frame doll’s house with Barbie and Ken in suits at the entrance and another Barbie upstairs in gymwear
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    FT Series
    HTSI’s favourite hardware stores

    Really useful shops that make everyday tasks more stylish

    Rachel Wythe-Moran (left) and Simon Watkins at Labour & Wait in east London
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    Luke Edward Hall
    Pots to give your plants a pick-me-up

    Shun common or garden containers and embrace the rusty, ramshackle and radical for greenery with added interest

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    HTSI
    Fancy a bit of Bitossi?

    These colourful cult ceramics are now in high demand

    Pieces designed by Aldo Londi between around 1950 and 1970 from the Bitossi archive reissues collection
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    InterviewArchitecture
    A tiny house to tackle climate change pops up on the Vitra Campus in Germany

    Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum designed the dwelling to provide housing in areas prone to flooding

    A steep-roofed structure built on bamboo stilts has a ladder leading the the living space above ground; at the front, a window is open
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    HTSI
    Mirror, mirror: the infinite charm of reflecting rooms

    Turn your house into a temple of reflection

    The interior of artist Viola Lanari’s showroom at Milan Design Week in 2022, dressed in reflective vinyl and foil
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Interiors
    Furniture designer Anna Karlin: ‘I see furniture as sculpture full of purpose’

    The London-born darling of New York’s elite interiors world specialises in fluid pieces that are ‘both soft and strong’

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    HTSI
    17 totally tropical buys

    How to look good on island time

    The inspiration: Ursula Andress during filming of Dr No in Jamaica, 1962
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    HTSI
    Highlights from Copenhagen’s 3daysofdesign

    The Danish design festival’s best in show

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