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Editor’s Letter • April 2025

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What’s in the air this month

Soft Sells • Concerned that your cushions are looking a bit, well – square? From palms to pears, David Lipton’s groovy group cuts serious shapes

Friends in High Places • In the rare self-portraits showing the photographer at home, Peter Hujar’s East Village loft strikes the eye as a rather solitary space, with the lone lensman cast adrift – literally, in one case – amid the flat’s sparse holdings. But don’t rely on snap impressions: in fact, says Will Ferreira Dyke, the pad played host to myriad meet-ups and tender shots of his starry milieu

Fibre Optics • Whether gentle jute or rigid basketry, delicate matting or mighty canes, the stems and stalks that interlace to form the rattan family are as easy on the eye as they are fabulously versatile. And, with the April sun finally peeking out from behind the cloud cover, why not connect the strands into a hopeful vision of elegantly tropical spun gold – be it pure patterning or the real deal? Bobbing and weaving among the palm permutations, Miranda Sinclair marshals her raffia mafia.

Sweets for my Suite • Your sofa’s not yet curly-wurly, but its print is hardly mint. In fact, it’s giving you the sherbert dip dabs! If you couldn’t find the best new fabrics for toffee, don’t worry: we know two smarties who’ll guide you up quality street to a real bounty. David Lipton and Rose Eaglesfield’s pick-and-mix approach has shaken out allsorts – it’s a jolly mixture and unwrapper’s delight.

Upwardly Mobili • You’ve finally got the keys to the palatial Baroque apartment overlooking Rome’s Capitoline Hill that you’d long set your sights on. So what next? Why, some high-status contemporary furniture that will show the world you’ve arrived – and serve as a fitting foil to all the frescoes, frou and flounce. Please, prendete posto as Gianluca Longo unpacks the various options.

Batons Rouges • There’s no point being snooty about rhubarb. Granted, the lesser-spotted forced variety, raised in candlelit sheds in Yorkshire, is brighter and more tender – but the stuff grown in fields most of the year round is easy to bend to one’s will, whether as cheesecake or crumble, frangipane or fool. Just make sure you have a mellow accompaniment in mind, something to offset the tartness. Daisy Garnett has her eyes on stalks.

Sundae Best • Knickerbocker-glorious glass bowls every bit as delectable as the puddings they’re destined to showcase. Rose Eaglesfield has the scoop

Beaton’s Retreat • Hamish Bowles fondly recalls flying the coop to Sir Cecil Beaton’s rosy Wiltshire refuge

Jean Mutation

Thoughts Lassoed

Gaga for Agas

Fossil Fuelled

Edvard the Confessor

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

COUTURE COMFORTS • Home shopping is taken to a whole new level in Ralph Rucci’s sumptuous, mirrored penthouse apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. For the place doubles as his own de luxe showroom, where the designer displays his exquisite creations alongside collections of the non-sartorial kind – Chinese antiques, Jansen furniture, coromandel rareties, Elsa Peretti bibelots and glossy books by the mile… Hamish Bowles is feeling haute, haute, haute.

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