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The World of Interiors
November 2019Get The World of Interiors digital magazine subscription today for the most influential and wide-ranging design and decoration magazine you can buy. Inspiring, uplifting and unique, it is essential reading for design professionals, as well as for demanding enthusiasts craving the best design, photography and writing alongside expert book reviews, round-ups of the finest new merchandise, plus comprehensive previews and listings of international art exhibitions.
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EDITOR Rupert Thomas CREATIVE DIRECTOR Jessica Hayns ART DIRECTOR Mark Lazenby DEPUTY EDITOR Nathalie Wilson ASSOCIATE EDITOR, PARIS Marie-France Boyer FINE ARTS & FEATURES EDITOR Charlotte Edwards SENIOR EDITORIAL STYLIST Miranda Sinclair EDITORIAL STYLIST Max Egger EDITORIAL MANAGER/INSPIRATION EDITOR Grace McCloud CHIEF SUB-EDITOR Damian Thompson ART EDITORS Simon Witham Liam Stevens NEW YORK EDITOR Carol Prisant FOUNDING EDITOR Min Hogg PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Sarah Jenson COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION MANAGER Xenia Dilnot ACTING PRODUCTION CONTROLLER Skye Meelboom ACTING PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR Milly Aylott Harvey COMMERCIAL, PAPER & DISPLAY PRODUCTION CONTROLLER Martin MacMillan CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Richard Kingerlee NEWSTRADE MARKETING MANAGER Olivia Streatfield SUBSCRIPTION Patrick Foilleret (Director) Anthea Denning (Creative Design Manager) Lucy Rogers-Coltman, Brittany Mills (Direct Marketing Managers) Alan Paterson (Database Insight and Marketing Manager) Claudia Long (Assistant Promotions and Marketing Manager) PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Emma Redmayne PA TO PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Freya Hill ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Sophie Catto Emma Hiley (acting) ASSOCIATE PUBLISHERS (EUROPE) Alexandra Bernard (Tel: +33 5 5652 5761…
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1 Illustrator Laura Carlin and graphic designer Jo Briggs like a good yarn. Finding tiles to be the perfect vehicle for this, the pair established Such Stories. Their wares are made and printed with the former’s artworks in the heart of the UK’s pottery industry, Stoke-on-Trent. Prices start at £25 per off-the-peg tile, with commissions also undertaken. Ring 07766 011344, or visit suchstories.co.uk. 2 Ezequiel Farca and Cristina Grappin consider Mexico’s traditional ‘Equipale’ chair to be ‘perfectly designed and made’. That’s a lot to live up to when attempting a contemporary rendition, as the two architects did with this stainless-steel and handwoven-palm ‘Academia’ ($890). Ring 01152 55 5292 5115, or visit farcagrappin.com. 3 Sebastien and Valentina Nobile seem as keen to promote the versatility of their glassware as they are the ancient…
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GERRIT RIETVELD: WEALTH OF SOBRIETY (photography by Arjan Bronkhorst; Lectura Cultura, rrp £66) Exhaustive but in no way exhausting, this lovingly compiled bilingual tome takes us far beyond Rietveld’s groundbreaking house built for Truus Schröder in 1924 in Utrecht and his ‘Red Blue’ chair. A foreword by the architect’s grandchildren reveals that only in the early 1990s did they discover that more than 100 of his houses had been built. This beautifully illustrated homage takes us into the heart of 20 designed and built between 1924 and 1964, and with over 500 pages – largely of photography – it offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the masterful detail that elevated Rietveld’s work. Although he later distanced himself from the De Stijl movement, Rietveld was very much part of that moment. He…
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