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THE WORLD OF INTERIORS

Taking Pictures with Ngoc Minh Ngo

An autodidact, Ngoc Minh Ngo has forged an illustrious career in photography since her family was forced to flee Vietnam – and owes much of it to sheer providence. She gives us a snapshot of her remarkable journey from a war zone to the pages of The World of Interiors and beautiful books

Ode to Nightingale

This soon-to-open Mayfair restaurant has been taken to a whole new level with an ingenious bespoke scheme. The design studio Tutto Bene is the wind beneath its wings

Mussel Memory

Blott Kerr-Wilson’s brilliant career has been bookended by bathrooms in this magazine. The first, a deep-sea grotto she made in her London council house, won a competition in WoI in the 1990s, setting her on her life’s course as a sheller extraordinaire. Now, living in Norfolk, she’s created a new conch-clad wonder. Damian Thompson washes up

Play’s The Thing

When Belgian designer Leendert de Vos was commissioned by the French actor Stacy Martin to stage a decorative intervention in her London town house, the two discovered a rare artistic chemistry. Together, they produced a home reflective of the qualities of the best performers: improvisation, an intuition for the offbeat and, of course, a willingness to collaborate

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Batik Critique

The British/Nigerian artist confronts uncomfortable truths about colonialism, Western iconography and the complex entanglements between nations in his new solo show

Contributors

Bertrand Raison
Writer
Andrea Venturini
Photographer
Tabitha Barber
Writer
Ossian Ward
Writer
Hester Underhill
Writer
Yiyun Li
Writer

Features

There’s no limit to how long the stalwart Sardinian Peppino Dore is willing to keep labouring over his magnum opus: a pedimented palace cum duomo, crafted in its maximalist entirety by his own two hands