House and Garden

House & Garden unlocks the door to an array of unique homes and outdoor features, ranging from town houses and converted barns to fabulous modern apartments and island retreats. Outdoor features are equally varied, including cottage gardens, water gardens and chic, city courtyards. House & Garden provides an invaluable sourcebook of ideas, from design and decoration to the best of travel, delicious recipes and fine wine. Britain’s most glamorous, inspiring and influential design and decoration magazine.

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House and Garden

Uncommon beauty

Arena • A curation of brilliant people, objects and ideas

Matthew Williamson • … talks style, summer scents and the power of pink

Fine finds • RÉMY MISHON shares a selection of favourite pieces that have recently caught her eye

Art space • In her west London home, dealer Julia Collins is surrounded by artworks that she loves – the majority of which are for sale

Potted history

Glass act • Artist JULI BOLAÑOS-DURMAN talks to Amy Bradford about how she turns broken and discarded glassware into whimsical sculptures, proving that what is abandoned can be beautiful

Olfactory settings • Home scents are being redefined, as designers create perfumes housed in collectable ceramic vessels

Shaggy chic

Through the lens • We take a view on books by two interiors photographers who have been regular contributors to House & Garden

Relative values • In West Sussex, a creative couple is rewriting the rules of how generations could live together in the future, and their innovative house is the blueprint

Bay watch • There’s something in the (sea) air at Margate, where a new wave of artists and gallerists is building a creative community that could well make history

Colour coded • ARABELLA BOWES and TILLY WHEELER present fine furniture and accessories in hues that will bring harmony and vibrancy to your rooms

Light fantastic • Gleaming surfaces and buttery tones ensure stylist Kimi O’Neill’s stainlesssteel kitchen is the shimmering star of her 18th-century Yorkshire farmhouse

Bedtime stories

POWER PLAY • RIA SEALY-HUGHES chooses sockets, light switches, rockers and dimmers

Frills to drills

THE LIST by HOUSE & GARDEN • From architects to antique dealers, look no further than houseandgarden.co.uk/the-list

Outlook • Glorious gardens and horticultural inspiration

Joy division • This is a good time of year to divide spring- and summer-flowering herbaceous perennials, advises CLARE FOSTER

Circles of life • There are few straight lines in this rural Berkshire garden: from Piet Oudolf’s gently looping borders and vineyards to a meadow brimming with vitality

Shoots to thrill • While dahlias are most often grown from tubers, it’s very easy to grow them from seed, as flower farmer Kim Fleming tells CLARE FOSTER

Kindred spirits • The Umbrian landscape around Nicola Pozzi and Ryan Weimer’s turn-of-the-century farmhouse inspires myriad creative ventures

Water colours • By creating terraces and borders to frame beautiful vistas, designer Helen Elks-Smith has ensured every path in this Hampshire garden invites you to explore

September • All rise for this month’s selection of inspiring houses – from London to Cape Town via Normandy

Visual Poetry • The owners of this Normandy manor house wanted a weekend retreat for writing and entertaining, which designer Cordelia de Castellane has achieved with her signature romantic approach

Floral tribute • For a country house with whimsical French style

Character Building • Faced with a blank canvas and no architectural cues, interior designer Tobias Vernon used a bold...