House and Garden

House & Garden unlocks the door to an array of unique homes and outdoor features, ranging from town houses and converted barns to fabulous modern apartments and island retreats. Outdoor features are equally varied, including cottage gardens, water gardens and chic, city courtyards. House & Garden provides an invaluable sourcebook of ideas, from design and decoration to the best of travel, delicious recipes and fine wine. Britain’s most glamorous, inspiring and influential design and decoration magazine.

Open House • This month, we journey across the globe with some of the contributors to our Travel Guide

House and Garden

Warm welcome

Decorate • Beautiful objects and brilliant ideas

Fine finds • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME shows us what has caught her eye this month

Clear winners • RUTH SLEIGHTHOLME arranges a glass reunion with her pick of desirable drinking vessels

IT’S A WRAP • Friends and family not good at telling you what they really, really want? RÉMY MISHON suggests choosing Christmas gifts based on their passions and interests

London style

Season’s eatings • Food writer MIMI THORISSON relishes the prospect of festive celebrations in her Turin home, where food and family come together

Sugar rush

Bathroom updates

Coming to an arrangement

Edge of heaven • Temple Cottage’s bucolic, historic location provided the starting point for Acres Wild, who worked with its owners to create a lush garden that looks good from every angle

Angle poise • Designer Arne Maynard played with lines and geometry in the planting at a modernist London newbuild to create intriguing vistas that can be enjoyed all year round – and especially in winter

SHAPE SHIFTERS • CLARE FOSTER recommends alternatives to box and yew, which can be clipped into hedges, topiary and architectural features

Colours in nature • Fiona McKenzie Johnston considers the work of artist BRIDGET RILEY, the subject of two current exhibitions, and examines her dazzling, dynamic representations of the natural world

‘Cooking is pure therapy’ • Though best known as a model, photographer and war correspondent, Lee Miller was an adept hostess and a prize-winning chef. BLANCHE VAUGHAN celebrates her culinary legacy

Middle ground • With a penchant for painting on old book covers, artist and storyteller Andrew Cranston produces quiet work that contrasts with the hubbub outside his Glasgow studio

Polished Acts • Collectors have long taken a shine to silver. GRACE McCLOUD considers the enduring popularity of the precious metal and seeks expert advice on what to buy

Where there’s a willow there’s a way • Mother-and-daughter duo Jenny Crisp and Issy Wilkes use centuries-old techniques to grow and weave flexible salix into beautiful objects for the home

January

Raise the rafters • Preparing for Christmas involves favourite family traditions at this Connecticut house, created by skilfully linking a former blacksmith’s forge to a 19th-century wagon barn

Point of view • Smitten by the distinctive setting of this chalet, its owner enlisted the help of interior designer Maria Ousseimi to transform its challenging interiors in a way that reflects their shared Lebanese heritage

History in the remaking • A Swedish design studio enlisted specialist craftspeople to help to turn back the clock in this traditional country house, restoring authenticity one tile at a time

Inspired buys • Add character with rich colours and elaborate textiles

Carte blanche • A long-standing relationship with interior designer Douglas Mackie meant the owners of this elegant London flat were happy to give him free rein to source furniture and furnishings from far and wide –...