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The new romantic fantasy film Wicker takes an ancient craft and turns into something else entirely – a very pliant heart-throb played by Alexander Skarsgård. So how did Wētā Workshop, the visual-effects wizards responsible, pull if off? worldofinteriors.com/story/w…
The state of craft in the UK is dire, a band of advocates warn, with systems failing to support the masters-in-training that traditionally would pass on their skills. Debika Ray sounds out experts on how to save it worldofinteriors.com/story/n…
Eye-delighting finds, from a toy Roman soldier to Ely Cathedral benches, dot Drew Pritchard’s Georgian home in Bath – the 13th house he’s done up and returned to its proper proportions. worldofinteriors.com/story/d…
Michael Craig-Martin dismissed Murano glass and old masters as yesterday’s news when updating his Venetian apartment. Instead, the artist turned to the Modernist aesthetic. worldofinteriors.com/story/m…
Novelist Roísín Tapponi’s study in east London is a glamorous clamour that reflects her whirl of a life. worldofinteriors.com/story/r…
The YBAs have come to stand for Britain in the 1990s – bolshy, laddish, ironic. But this collective ‘mood’ obscures their art’s power, argues Alex Hyde in the latest Room for Debate worldofinteriors.com/story/r…
Art dealer Ivor Braka is more exercised by the rare Aesthetic furniture he owns than the grand art he deals from his Queen Anne Revival home in Knightsbridge worldofinteriors.com/story/i…
Oddities, from Madonna’s knickers to Larry Hagman’s gallstone, formed the found art of Barton Beneš, a forgotten face of Aids-era New York worldofinteriors.com/story/b…
For sculptor Kirstine Hindhede, gardening is all about feeling more deeply. In her Copenhagen plot, she sculpts an ever-growing work of art where aesthetics become a vital way of knowing the world worldofinteriors.com/story/k…
Founders of art/retail hybrid Kiosk, Marco ter Haar Romeny and Alisa Grifo, have made their own mark on a Provençal mas, chock-full of painterly paraphernalia from Marco’s artist father worldofinteriors.com/story/k…
Woodland gods, flying penis bells, pygmies battling crocodiles… You’ll find them all – and much more besides – on the walls of art historian Michael Dorsch’s flat in the West Village worldofinteriors.com/story/m…
‘America’s Hidden Treasures’ tours the United States by way of its most esoteric museum collections, each one a complex capsule of national history worldofinteriors.com/story/a…
With its shrine, coin collection
and birthday artworks, the New
York loft of video pioneers Nam
June Paik and Shigeko Kubota
is a moving record of their life
together worldofinteriors.com/story/f…
Monumental metal sculptures dominated the prolific career of French artist Pierre Sabatier, whose legacy is kept alive by his son Damien in the family’s Paris apartment-turned-archive. worldofinteriors.com/story/p…
Enigmatic artist Roland Roure has conjured up thousands of sculptures from his secluded Provençal studio, employing sheet metal, wire cutters, and a whole lot of whimsy worldofinteriors.com/story/r…
The full breadth of work by artist Leonor Fini, who designed perfume bottles for Schiaparelli and illustrated erotic texts by the Marquis de Sade, is put on display in a mesmeric retrospective that will travel to Germany and France. worldofinteriors.com/story/l…
Monsters of mischief, mavens of masking tape, Gary Card and Jason Zhang are set-design darlings of fashion. Godzilla, Bambi and vivid colours vie in their Brixton flat worldofinteriors.com/story/g…
Builder and artist Geraz Ato has carved reliefs of Mesoamerican paradise Tlalocan into the walls of his house, all drawn from Teotihuacán, the vast pre-Hispanic site that lies on his doorstep worldofinteriors.com/story/g…
Claude Monet was far more complicated than his serene, world-famous water lilies would have one believe. His letters reveal grief, financial hardship, and love worldofinteriors.com/story/c…
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham arrived in St Ives unaware that it would become a storied centre of modern British art. Now a survey of her lively oeuvre lands at the town’s Tate worldofinteriors.com/story/w…
