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Editor’s Letter • November 2025

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What’s in the air this month

Boom! Micro Drop • We’ve been sweating the very small stuff to bring you December’s special mini issue celebrating all things tiny but perfectly formed, from a très petit Paris flat to pimped-up truck cabins in Pakistan. And to coincide with our subscription and news-stand magazine, there’ll be a limited-edition pocket-sized version featuring exclusive additional content. Keep those magnifying glasses out and eyes peeled

Aesthetic Movement • To and fro you go, looking for a rocking horse – or other beast! – to satisfy your inner child and eye for design. Well, perhaps David Lipton can sway you to one of these…

THE WORLD OF INTERIORS X MONTBLANC WRITING COMPETITION • Earlier this year, we petitioned our readers to cast in prose their most precious treasures. Now, wrapping up the second iteration of The World of Interiors Writing Competition, Elly Parsons is thrilled to announce our contest’s two winners and four runners-up

How Great Thine Art • Hidden for centuries under layers of whitewash, the Romanesque wall paintings in St Botolph’s in West Sussex are sublime survivors from a time when itinerant artists – and the church elders who commissioned them – gloried in simply divine interior decoration. But now the building itself is in dire need of salvation, along with the brushwork that so bewitched those other fresco fanatics: the Bloomsbury Group. Still, Alexandra Harris can only sing their praises in humble astonishment.

Move Over, Dalí • Once the butt of many a joke, Surrealism has confounded its critics by living to be 100. Celebrating that centenary, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is the latest stop on a touring landmark show – and we, suitably inspired, decided to present statement objets in a manner that would have surely tickled old Salvador himself. Working cheek by jowl with the exhibits, photographer Charlie Engman does a crack job with his camera (not to mention a lamp)

Designer Babies • After long labours, the furniture houses have just delivered some bright young things, from latticed lanterns and ceramic side tables to star-shaped armchairs. And where better to show off these new kids on the block than at London’s Foundling Museum, a former hospital that took in and cared for thousands of abandoned infants from 1739 onwards. Thank David Lipton for the immaculate conception.

Pigments of the Imagination • The peaks and fells of North Yorkshire don’t merely provide the picturesque backdrop for Rebecca Wallace and Pip Seymour’s village workshop – they’re also the source of ingredients, from ochre to clay, in a lot of their fine-art products. Ariadne Fletcher meets a couple changing the whole landscape of how colours are made.

Noto: Bene • Heed my words, says Hamish Bowles: this Baroque city in southern Sicily is splendidly simpatico with architecture (and other things besides) well worthy of attention

Hard Sells • If you’re in the market for art to fill your home, should you take the easy road with works that merely romance the eye, or take a chance on the difficult, daring and even downright disturbing? Alayo Akinkugbe makes a persuasive pitch for the latter

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