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What’s in the air this month

Polygon for Good • Do your floors look pedestrian, a bit… run of the mill? With these irregularly shaped rugs, David Lipton leaves the squares behind

Announcing the Editorial Panel • The World of Interiors editor Emily Tobin, WoI’s creative director at large Hamish Bowles, food writer Nigel Slater, historian Jessica B. Harris and novelist Olivia Laing join the panel for our open call for new writing. ‘No bots allowed,’ says digital director Elly Parsons

Root Canal Treats • Amid the Lee Navigation, east London’s network of waterways, all hands were on deck to parade the prettiest of planters. If you’re a floating voter, get on board with terracotta vessels, barge through crowds to reach a Medici-style vase and break your moorings over copper basins. Certainly, the earth moved for Miranda Sinclair.

That’s Not All Folk! • One could easily dismiss the vernacular art and craft in the London home of textile designer Enid Marx and historian Margaret Lambert as the kitsch tchotchkes of two mildly eccentric women. But as a new exhibition shows, they actually played an important role in the former’s creative output and vision.

The Mane Man • There are wigs, as worn by drag artists and judges. Then there are the extraordinary creations dreamed up by locks-smith Zhou Xue Ming in his outwardly anonymous Shanghai studio. Spotted on everyone from Cardi B to catwalk models, these are, quite simply, hairpieces de résistance, says George Pistachio.

Hail Fellow Well Met Gala’d • With just three weeks to go before the social fixture, Hamish Bowles has an invitation but no outfit. Can he pull it off in time to schmooze with the best-dressed of them?

The Future Is All Yores • It’s one of life’s great ironies that what we call antiques are actually far more modern in the truest sense than anything now knocked up with such a paucity of care and imagination. If only designers looked to the interiors movers and Shakers of yesteryear, says Michael Diaz-Griffith, they might actually begin to dream big

Heaven for Leather

Blake’s Progress

Well, Arles Be Blowed

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

Naked Launch • Let’s put some flesh on the bones of our September issue, which celebrates the human body. Graze anatomy at a concrete ‘Garden of Eden’ in Croatia, Alvar Aalto’s sanatorium in Finland and a Czech ossuary. And since every main course needs some sauce… look out for our limited-edition ‘Top Shelf’ special, exploring desire in design

VISITOR’S BOOK

VICTORIA IN EXCELSIS • Step into St Benedict, a bed and breakfast in coastal East Sussex, and you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d time-travelled back to the 19th century at peak decorative pomp. Miraculously, however, this effect is entirely confected: the hotel’s owners, ordained priest Aleksandr Groves and Paul Oxborrow, have spent the past few decades faithfully transforming what was a characterless conversion in immaculate high-Victorian style. Hamish Bowles sings its praises.

CLOD PSYCHOLOGY • You don’t have to be an expert to diagnose artists Bidyut Kumar Roy and Lipi Biswas as out-and-out earth obsessives – from the clay that underpins their practices to the mud from which their West...