FT Weekend

Why mistakes can lead to great things

In the age of AI, the happy accident has never been more important

Why 21st-century luxury looks like 1974

Once a shorthand for dreariness and bad taste, 1970s interior design is being recast as the height of hotel style

Do your boxers match your bedroom walls?

Drayton’s briefs are an ode to Jouy

At home with the rollicking Rollitts

The Hampshire base of Max Rollitt has always been a playground. Now his sons are picking their own creative paths

Contemporary Alpine chalet design is completely overrated

Updated comforts and tech are often necessary, but there’s no characterful match for traditional architecture

Val d’Isère vs Verbier: which has the edge?

Both are world-class ski resorts, neither courts moneyed opulence, but beyond balancing moguls with mortgage rates, there are clear reasons why you might buy a property in one over the other

Nan Goldin’s next move

The artist and activist’s intimate portraits of her friends shaped how we understood addiction and love. In a major new show at London’s Hayward Gallery, she flips the script

Where jazz goes to church

For a decade, an east London church has hosted some of the world’s most adventurous jazz musicians. Now Church of Sound is taking its worship to the Barbican for this week’s London Jazz Festival

Will we soon cure cancer?

A recent revolution in drug-based prevention and treatment has brought scientists tantalisingly close to defeating these most feared diseases — but stubborn challenges remain

The Belgian-born economist swept up in India’s Cockroach protests

Jean Drèze on the ‘shocking’ inequalities behind the country’s narrative of success

Big Sky does not want to be Aspen, OK?

On the surface, the Montana resort jostles for the unofficial title of the US’s most luxurious winter-sports hideaway. But for homebuyers, the appeal often lies in its points of difference

FT Weekend Magazine Crossword Number 819

Objects of Desire by Celia Paul — grief, art and the beauty of Venice

A seven-week residency for the celebrated British artist in La Serenissima becomes a searching meditation on death, desire, painting and the pleasure of solitude

Binary Puzzle Number 135

First, steam your ribbons — how to decorate your home at Christmas

Designer Alex Gore Browne offers an all-frills guide to the festive season 

Can Stilton be saved from extinction?

One maker’s fight to save the king of English cheeses

The secret botanicals of Byllis and Butrint, the ‘second Troy’

The mountains of Albania are filled with a richness of flowers and stories from antiquity

When kintsugi met Savoy savoir-faire in a chalet renovation . . . 

A farmhouse barely touched since the 1800s and unlived in since the 1980s was repaired with a very special chemistry. It was spruced up, quite literally