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Editor’s Letter • April 2026

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Chocks Away! • Are your portals held back by tatty wooden wedges? Ditch your old door jammers for these much buffer buffers. Rose Eaglesfield pulls out all the stops

Slow, Slow, Quick Quick, Slow • Since the 1950s South Korea has been fixated on economic growth, and the nation has fostered a culture of haste and impatience. Now, as more and more people wake up to the power of mindfulness, contemporary designers are harking back to the traditions of its Medieval scholars, who cultivated spaces for thought, rest and connection. Here and in her new book, Hyo Jung Lee shows how hard graft is being tempered by conscious craft

Flight-bulb Moments • Do you picture a pendant, plafonnier or lantern hovering on high in your home? Then come onboard! Full of bright ideas – but no hot air, of course – David Lipton is happy to pilot you with a few firm(ament) favourites of his own.

Curtain Twitchers • How better to boost your roost than with new drapes or upholstery made of fabric from this spring’s fledgling collections? Whether you’re on the lookout for a lesser-spotted toile or something far more showy, keep very still and quiet and it’ll soon be within sight on these pages. Armed with her flask and binoculars, Miranda Sinclair wings it to the wetlands to wade through all the options.

Bath Bombshells • Are your schemes severely lacking in fizz? Perhaps it’s time to take the waters. Drift down to the pavilion of a thermal spa in Emilia-Romagna, for instance, and you’ll find a raft of invigorating offerings, floated in by our stylists, in the guise of knockout new furniture. Towelling robe in hand, Ruth Sleightholme serves up the very latest treatments.

Community Chest • Rare is the place where you can perch on an Igbo chieftain’s stool while leafing through an out-of-print tome on West African seating. Welcome to north London’s Seed Archives, a relaxed collection of art, design and books from the continent courtesy of photographer Christian Cassiel. Here, wreathed in cinnamon incense and listening to highlife, denizens of the diaspora can reconnect with their roots.

Larger Than Life • The demand for space is a clearly huge issue in our confined times – but could the pipe dream of a palatial home create a domestic ideal too big to fit the actual wants and needs of daily living? Charlene Prempeh puts things in perspective

Souk’d to the Skin • Torrential rain fails to stop play in Taroudant, where Hamish Bowles makes fruitful forays into the Moroccan city’s medina and emporia

Leica Hawk

Kinship in a Man’s Clan

Clique Bait

Freudian Slips

Bury the Lead

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

AIX FACTOR • There’s no missing Château d’Ansouis, a centuries-old hilltop fortress that presides most picturesquely over a village voted one of the prettiest in France. Inside is really rather special too, thanks to a plethora of original features peculiar to Aix-en-Provence and its environs, from the distinctive gypserie provençale plasterwork to the more formal tomettes-tiled salons. Bravo to the current owners – a retired couple – says Oliver Maclennan, for their ministrations and antique-market...