House and Garden April 2022

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.

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AMBER GUINNESS / COOK AND WRITER Amber was born in London but grew up in Tuscany at Arniano – a farmhouse bought by her parents in 1989. She attended a local village school, but was sent back to England aged 13. Her first job was as a studio assistant and in-house copy editor for the singer-songwriter Bryan Ferry. ‘I often cooked for the crew and musicians in the studio,’ she says. In 2014, she founded The Arniano Painting School, running residential painting holidays with her business partner, the artist William Roper-Curzon. In this month’s issue (from page 177), she shares recipes and photographs from her forthcoming cookbook and memoir, A House Party in Tuscany (Thames & Hudson, £29.99). What is your all-time favourite food? ‘Pasta, pasta, pasta – though one of my…

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FROM THE EDITOR

Over the years, I have realised that I am a messy person who likes tidiness. I am always rather envious of those people who can live surrounded by a level of accumulated mess without feeling stressed by it. And indeed, the right levels of mess in somebody else’s house can actually feel welcoming, relaxed and convivial. Inherently tidy people, I have noticed, make very little mess in the first place, whereas I struggle with the never-ending need to tidy up. This is not helped by having three smallish children and a husband who cannot bear having his things moved even slightly or, heaven forbid, thrown away. But I am far from blameless. Late into last night, I read Anya Hindmarch’s new manual for life, If In Doubt, Wash Your Hair…

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PREPARED TO BE WOWED

Interior design will reach new heights this June when Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour throws open the doors to WOW!house, its most ambitious project to date. Get ready for a highly immersive design experience; room after room of imaginative wonder, created by 20 acclaimed interior designers, working in collaboration with renowned makers and international design houses. A must-visit on the design calendar, this magnificent showhouse will thrill, seduce and surprise. A huge 400 sq m showhouse will be specially created in the Design Avenue, and there will be simply nothing like it in the UK. WOW!house celebrates design luminaries whose work is not always shown to the public, but whose vision continues to shape the way we live. As the pendulum swings towards our increasing desire for self-expression and optimism, be wowed…

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