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Editor’s Letter • August 2025

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What’s in the air this month

Pulp Faction • Whether crumpled or pleated, sculpted or bedaubed, these paper lamps shine a light on the material’s versatility. It’s a rags to riches story, says David Lipton

Fauves by the Coves • Founded in Newlyn in 1920, Cryséde manufactured groundbreaking garments whose Cornish-themed designs drew on the Modernist art movements then making shockwaves in postwar Europe. The outfits were too pricey for locals to afford, but the company’s decade of success would see many women lifted out of poverty, as Norman Miller reports

Bolts from the Blue • Fill six boxes with a length or two of outdoor fabric. Enclose an open-ended brief. Courier to creatives around the globe. Wait nervously for images to land…

Solo Voyager • Anna Boghiguian has never been afraid to steer her own course, going to places creatively that far less adventurous souls might shy away from. And just recently the maverick artist has travelled farther still – physically speaking – having left her home in Cairo for a sojourn in Margate, where she’s holding a one-woman show. Holly EJ Black catches her there submerged in work and contemplating the North Sea.

Red Carpet Treatment • In Rome, retinas ablaze with Valentino’s signature colour, Hamish Bowles is invited to the palatial new offices of the couturier’s right-hand man

Wistful Thinking • Enough with the merching of nostalgia, pleads Gareth Wyn Davies. The whole point of this precious emotion is that it’s as individual as a fingerprint, ready to be activated by a cherished artwork, ornament or – in his case – ancient orange sheet…

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

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VISITOR’S BOOK

FLYING COLOURS • With the Villa Pepita in Mahón, Menorca’s sunny, sailboat-filled main port, architect Luis Laplace set himself a test: to create not only a warm and approachable home for his long-standing clients, but a monument to the place’s modest origins as a former fisherman’s abode, and so to the essential spirit of the bay at large. On both fronts he’s passed triumphantly: from the ‘old village’ green tones that wave a cheery welcome at seafaring visitors to the rustic redwork trim pinned on the shelves, Amy Sherlock likes the cut of its jib.

DISTILLED EIRE • After lifelong immersion in Irish decorative arts, architectural historian Christopher Moore has captured its quintessence at Dangan, his cottage orné in County Kilkenny. True, the house’s bones may not be especially noble, but the rustic, riverine backdrop proves a perfect setting for elegant mahogany furniture and Rococo mirrors, Chinese export porcelain and lively Georgian portraits. Both the man and his belongings have an impeccable provenance, writes Catherine FitzGerald.

THOROUGHLY MODERN MOBILI • It’s the 1980s and a pair of penurious students hit on a very Radical idea to furnish the rustic farmhouse they’ve come by – scooping up choice works by said Italian design movement, which are going for a song in their part of Tuscany. Forty years and molto modernariato later, that same couple are sitting on a goldmine. Well, a highly collectable Archizoom armchair or two at the very least, says Lee...