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  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    HTSI
    The Onassis Foundation cultural director’s guide to Athens

    Afroditi Panagiotakou on the city’s jazz bars, fish markets and open-air cinemas

  • Saturday, 18 June, 2022
    HTSI
    Mast-er pieces – the ‘niche niche’ world of yacht art

    This nautical oeuvre includes handpainted sails and modernist hulls. And it looks pretty amazing

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
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    Feel the pull of rope furniture

    Collectors are getting wound up about chairs, tables and mirrors made from humble cord

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    The Aesthete
    Martha Freud: ‘The best advice I ever received? ‘Go to bed!’

    The ceramicist loves mini cornichons, collects words and swear by the beauty tips of her grandmother

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
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    The gallerist who took a ceramics class – and joined the sculpture club

    For Nicola Tassie and Rowena Morgan-Cox, it’s all about blurring the boundaries of the fine and decorative arts

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
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    In subdued or Technicolor tones, they blur the lines between art and craft

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
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    Business is blooming for big tech’s go-to flower arrangers

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
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    We’re going la-la for Les Lalanne

    A landmark Mayfair show of the French duo’s eccentric work, loved by Yves Saint Laurent, Peter Marino and the Queen, emphasises its ever-growing collectability

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    HTSI
    The wonder of Wiener Werkstätte

    The Viennese arts and crafts movement is now more popular than ever

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    HTSI
    Time to rethink the tile

    Lace-carved, feather-fringed and tessellated takes on flooring are the stars at Homo Faber 2022

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    FT SeriesThe HTSI spring design special 2022
    Eight female design names to know

    In an industry where women are still vastly outnumbered, these disruptors are flipping the script

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    Travel
    Floral designer Ruby Barber offers an insider’s guide to Berlin

    The parks, pastries and beautifully designed stores that keep the florist endlessly in love with her adopted home

  • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
    Interiors
    No place like home for craft fair Collect

    The international event returns to London’s Somerset House this weekend after the success of last year’s online-only show

  • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
    HTSIThe HTSI spring arts special
    Under his spell – my life with Picasso

    Diana Widmaier Picasso has channelled her grandfather’s magnetic influence to navigate a creative path of her own

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Art on the West Coast: Frieze Week LA 2022
    Beyond The Baer Faxt: art-world insider Josh Baer goes global

    His penetrating 1990s weekly fax has evolved through the digital era into a multi-platform service

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    FT SeriesHow To Spend It spring fashion special
    Me and my constant gardener

    Fashion designer Ulla Johnson’s collaborations with landscape architect Miranda Brooks reflect a shared delight in capturing the wild within

  • Sunday, 6 February, 2022
    HTSI
    If you go down to the gallery today... you’ll find lots of fairytale pictures

    Meet the modern artists channelling the gorgeous, sometimes gruesome, power of folklore

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    HTSI
    Why Chinese snuff bottles are not to be sniffed at

    The decorative vessels beloved by emperors continue to hold court with collectors

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    The Aesthete
    John Nollet, the renowned hair stylist, talks taste

    The Frenchman on Carnival, curl care and his friendship with Sophie Calle

  • Wednesday, 19 January, 2022
    FT SeriesThe FT guide to hands-on hobbies to boost your mental health
    Open your mind to meditative art

    Painting mindfully has become increasingly credible, for artists and amateurs alike

  • Wednesday, 5 January, 2022
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    Would you sleep easier in a vegan bed?

    Introducing a new luxury plant-based alternative

  • Friday, 26 November, 2021
    HTSI
    Inside art collector Valeria Napoleone’s ‘little Guggenheim’

    Her London home has become a fabulous tribute to female art

  • Friday, 26 November, 2021
    The Aesthete
    Food star Laila Gohar talks personal taste

    The artist and social media sensation known as @lailacooks buys Buly perfumes and indulges in big glasses of burgundy

  • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
    HTSI
    Will you fall for a “lover’s eye” jewel?

    Popularised by George IV – and revived by Bridgerton – this intriguing jewellery is seducing us again

  • Thursday, 18 November, 2021
    HTSI
    Are you doing the deskscape right?

    How the paperweight became a philosophical debate

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