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antennae • What’s in the air this month, edited by Nathalie Wilson

FANCY DRESS • Clothe your interior in a brand-new costume, from Thai silks and Portuguese linens to modernised Morris prints.

antennae roundup • From poufs to pendants, Max Egger reveals his top London Design Week discoveries

NESTING INSTINCT • In the 1940s, artist Ruth Asawa found her calling ‘knitting’ complex woven-wire sculp tures. Exploring concepts of 3D space, her pieces were shaped by the Modernlist principles of Josef and Anni Albers. But there’s something personal at play too: in the workaday medium is a memory of her immigrant farmer parents; in the containing forms the mark of her life as a mother as much as a maker

Beyond Basics • MOVING EFFORTLESSLY PAST THE FUNCTIONAL, VITRA FASHIONS BATHROOMS THAT ARE HAVENS TO RETREAT TO, SANCTUARIES TO RESTORE OUR SPIRITS

DESIGN WEEK FABRICS • It was at Hauteville House on Guernsey that Victor Hugo, exiled from France, completed Les Misérables. Our resident revolutionaries, Jessica Hayns and Max Egger, take over the novelist’s Georgian villa on the island as they display their favourite newly released fabrics. It’s a riot of colour. For details see page 83.

books • On gilded waves, keeping abstraction real, shock waves, museum of everything, Abe Odedina

SERIOUS pursuits • Auctions, antique fairs and diverting activities, chosen by Gareth Wyn Davies

WRAP SESSION • Trying to find the right stool is like a jungle sometimes. So don’t freestyle, go with Miranda Sinclair’s flow – word on the street is that she’s got the funkiest samples.

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network • Sophia Salaman chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

PAY AND DISPLAY • In 1707, the Margravine Sibylla Augusta built an opulent palace in south Germany to be a setting for celebration and masquerade. But as a devout Catholic, she could also be found in her hermitage, sipping gruel and flagellating herself amid wax effigies of the Holy Family. Jean-Louis Gaillemin explores a ruler governed by gaiety – and piety.

DREAM SEQUENCE • Whether he’s channelling Ava Gardner or Fellini, Vincent Darré often roots his richly imaginative interior design work in cinema. There’s certainly a film-set feel about his new apartment, amid treetops in Paris’s diplomatic quarter. In this Neo-Romantic vision you begin with a trompe-l’oeil striped ‘tent’ and finish at a window masquerading as a pagoda. Marie-France Boyer lets herself dissolve into fantasy.

ARCH REVIVALIST • For Michel Guyot, preserving France’s architectural past, and its building methods, is a passion bordering on obsession. His latest vision is the re-creation of a Medieval priory on the footprint of an old barn, complete with chapel, cloister and chapter house. But unlike his other projects, which welcome the public, this consecrated haven will remain a private sanctuary for a small circle of friends.

SOLE PROPRIETOR • When architect Barbara Weiss had the chance to expand her family’s Wiltshire retreat by buying the property next door, she envisaged a ‘shoebox’ shape for the new annexe. Putting her best foot forward, she aimed to create a calm country cousin to their London house. Now she and husband, Alan Leibowitz, have more of everything:...