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Editor’s Letter • March 2025

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Come-to-Bed Buys • Who wouldn’t be seduced by a handsome headboard, whether it’s ravishing rattan or the suavest silk? David Lipton ogles some of the cutest

Guerrillas in the Mix • Originating in 15th-century Hungary, the small equestrian scouting units known as hussars grew notorious during the Napoleonic Wars. Whether gained for blood-curdling exploits on the battlefield, or horsing around in bars and brothels, the regiments’ reputations were only enhanced by their dapper dress code, which, as Valérie Lapierre reports, has inspired everyone from Hendrix to Hermès.

Roll Models • Going back to the drawing board with wallcoverings? Allow us to give your search some structure. We’ve covered various dinky architectural mock-ups with textured fabrics and papers sure to help you scale up your decorative ambitions, be they monumental or rather more maquette-sized. Mechanical pencil in hand, Miranda Sinclair unravels her blue, leopard and floral prints, plus many more besides…

Handle with Flair • Knock, knock. Who’s there? Gianluca Longo with a special delivery of first-class hardware guaranteed to return doors and drawers to rightful splendour. Whether you prefer your bronze burnished or your nickel polished, a classic style or something that pushes the envelope, our style director’s given you much to unpack here.

Upstream Battle • It has become a regular feature in the dinner rotation, its versatile pink flakes a beguiling combination of healthy, tasty and easy on the eye. But intensively farmed salmon – increasingly the dress-it-up, dress-it-down solution to culinary quandaries – has become overexposed and undervalued, and the ecological hazards it creates are off the scale. Daisy Garnett has taken the leap, banishing it from the weekly menu.

Cache of the Day • Angling for a new set of fish knives? Not one to flounder, Rose Eaglesfield may have just the thing to tip the scales

Delaunay de Luxe • An Art Deco dress in Hamish Bowles’s couture collection has a very special provenance

How Green Was My Alley

Redraft of the Medusa

Tulips from Samarkand

Cornish Dream Tease

Me Old China

Postcards from the Edge

Lipstick, Power and Paint

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

ESCARGOTS A GO-GO • The kitchen in Pierre Marie’s Paris showroom could almost be considered a shrine to gastropods rather than gastronomy per se. For everywhere you look there are swirls of snails covering his cupboards – a neat metaphor, the trail-blazing designer says, for the painstaking pace of the patrimoine-vivant artisans whom he champions. It doesn’t end there either. No, Gay Gassmann thinks every room here is a sight for sore eyes, an exhilarating, life-enhancing antidote for anyone feeling the least bit sluggish.

HOLLOWED GROUND • For millennia, the cells that lie within the rocky landscapes of Cappadocia in Turkey’s heartland have been seen as highly sacred spaces. Indeed, some of the world’s earliest Christian communities sought sanctuary in the region’s subterranean enclaves. Today, the hidden churches and monastic settlements that hold out within this vermicular terrain still...