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Editor’s Letter • June 2026

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Pattern Boldness • The easiest, most effective home treatment for flair loss? A vibrantly painted armoire or chest, obviously. David Lipton has combed sundry salon showrooms for the best

Can’t See the Wool for the Tapestries • Imagine a tapisserie so finely detailed that it looks like a close-up of leaves rather than something woven on a loom. That masterpiece is just one of 800 created by Atelier 3, two deft-with-the-weft octogenarians who’ve been warping minds for decades. Seb Emina shuttles off to Paris to get the bigger picture.

Tempting Fête • Parading the prettiest peekaboo voiles and sheers at a garden party is perhaps just asking for Pimm’s or grass stains. Well, blow the consequences, says Rose Eaglesfield. In the interests of semi-transparency, certain things are always best aired out in the open, no matter how delicate.

Pretty as a Pitcher • If your jug du jour puts the ‘can’t’ into decanter, it’s time to get a handle on something new. Be they pewter flagons, fluted carafes or bulbous earthenware, these vessels are ready to enter pour lore – and they’re ewers for the asking, says Ruth Sleightholme.

Man of the Cloth • When not ministering to those in need, Franciscan friar Sidival Fila can be found tending just as carefully to threadbare textiles. At his ruin-ringed studio in a Roman convent, the artist creates parables of redemption, tinting and transforming forsaken fabrics. The result? Very good works indeed, says Marella Caracciolo Chia.

In at the Steep End • Gran Canaria has gone up enormously in Hamish Bowles’s estimation now that he’s glimpsed its more elevated side – and finally caught his breath

Flash Mob • Nightclubs have always been style incubators, but now that three a week are closing down – where next for fabulous fashion? Plus, allowing phones on dancefloors has had a similarly cramping effect on self-expression, argues Alice Kemp-Habib

Block Party

Savoir Fair

All the Residents’ Men

Hynes Catch-up

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

SPIRAL EYES • How to turn a west London flat into a home that doubles as a chic contemporary gallery? In art dealer Andreas Siegfried’s case, the solution was to replace a vast staircase dominating the main space with a narrow helical one encased in plexiglass. In Gael Camu’s interior design, a delicate dance between the domestic and the aesthetic is choreographed with the aid of a kaleidoscope of colours, leaving Tree Sherriff’s vision in a whirl.

ROMANIAN CATHOLIC • Born in Bucharest, but with roots in Beirut, Haifa and northern Tuscany, writer Carolina Vincenti has filled her 17th-century Roman palazzo with flotsam from these harbours of the heart. Into the aesthetics of exile her partner, the food and wine critic Paolo Scotto, has sprinkled home-grown flavours in the form of fine Italian porcelain and Futurist art. But for the lady of the house, domestic life remains ‘a work-in-progress scenario in which to rebuild one’s identity’.

THE PRINTS AND THE SHOWGIRL • At the time of Cecil Beaton’s 1956 photo session with Marilyn Monroe at the Ambassador Hotel in Manhattan, both the screen siren and the...