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What’s in the air this month

The Chosen Flue • Whether Swedish, Austrian or Italian, a pretty ceramic-tiled stove draws the eye while warming the limbs. David Lipton is stoked to show off his select band

Ready to Order? • On today’s specials board, we have some beautifully fresh porcelain, glasses, cutlery and napery – all served alongside various delectable accompaniments for the table. Everything sir or madam might need to evoke old-school restaurant eating, in fact… So, over to David Lipton, who is your maître d’ for the occasion.

Entrée Chic • If our Shortlist on the preceding pages has whetted your appetite for a certain old-school-restaurant aesthetic, you’ll doubtless be hungering for some à la carte fabric options in keeping with that mood too. Well, how about the smart damask, linen and lace seen here for starters? Plus, we have all the trimmings you might expect to feature – literally – on a menu. They fit the bill, concludes Rose Eaglesfield.

A Cloak and Dakar Approach • Eniola Dawodu has spent years amassing an archive of traditional Yoruba cloth, each strip of which is interwoven with memory, history and heritage. Now, surrounded and inspired by life in a bustling part of Senegal’s capital, the textile artist sensitively reworks these pieces into robes and other garments. ‘I feel a sense of guidance from the material, as though I’m allowing it to continue in a new way,’ she tells Haja Fanta.

Passion Projected • Whether taking the form of tin-foil walls or a pimped-up pigsty, taste – a slippery concept – is best understood in terms of strong feeling and the courage to make bold decorative decisions. Alice Inggs pens a paean to picking and choosing

Cult Classical • Eschewing the more obvious attractions in Athens, Hamish Bowles has a niche special interest: the Benaki Museum, a Hellenic compendium stretching back to the ancients

Ultramarine Conservation

The Golden Hoard

Holy Exemplary

Yolk Lore

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

HOLLIE GOES LIGHTLY • This north London house is home to so many deeply personal objects that it might easily have looked clumsy or contrived in lesser hands. Hollie Bowden, however, has a knack for doing things differently and has instead created something at once intriguing and apparently effortless for her young family. ‘It was important that it felt a bit DIY,’ the interior designer tells Busola Evans.

GILT COMPLEX • If you sat still long enough in the presence of Steven Arnold very soon you ran the risk of being sprayed with gold paint. For as far as the film-maker and artist was concerned, there was nothing in life that couldn’t be embellished – whether family heirlooms, junk-shop kitsch or human flesh… Ahead of a new exhibition, Steffie Nelson recalls the Californian home/studios where Arnold and his outré acolytes spent the 1970s and 80s creating the most giddily camp tableaux vivants

THEATRE IN THE ROUND • In Zimbabwe’s Matobo district, talented residents vie to outperform one another in the vibrant arena of rondavel adornment. Indeed, a yearly contest sees locals turn their curvilinear homes into proud peacocks via a mix of age-old motifs and ostentatious ad-libs....