Japanese lanterns get a joyful rejig this season. The trend for paper pendants takes a painterly turn with this sculptural limited-edition Formakami design by Jaime Hayon for & Tradition, £300
© & Tradition

Painted paper shades
Japanese lanterns get a joyful rejig this season. The trend for paper pendants takes a painterly turn with this sculptural limited-edition Formakami design by Jaime Hayon for & Tradition, £300.


Feeling tipsy? The trend for surrealistic stemware that mimics melting glass – as pioneered by glass artist Miranda Keyes’s hand-forged Ball Knoped collection for Fels Farm Shop at London Design Festival – will have guests quizzing their levels of inebriation (£240)
© Fels Gallery

Globular glassware
Feeling tipsy? The trend for surrealistic stemware that mimics melting glass — as pioneered by glass artist Miranda Keyes’s hand-forged Ball Knoped collection for Fels Farm Shop at London Design Festival — will have guests quizzing their levels of inebriation (£240).


Rooms take on a richer flair – think Mayfair gentlemen’s club without the stuffiness. Soane Britain’s rattan Kymo cabinet in scarlet teamed with its sgraffito linen (£250 per metre, pictured edge of page) by dealer and designer Adam Bray nails the eclectic aesthetic
© Oskar Proctor

Mannish interiors
Rooms take on a richer flair — think Mayfair gentlemen’s club without the stuffiness. Soane Britain’s rattan Kymo cabinet in scarlet teamed with its sgraffito linen (£250 per metre, pictured edge of page) by dealer and designer Adam Bray nails the eclectic aesthetic.


The movement to channel? Art nouveau with a distinctly postmodern air. Mickey, India Mahdavi’s swirling Viennese design, transports the classic bentwood lounge chair straight to Disneyland. From Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, from €3,910
© Carlo Mossetti

Oh, Vienna!
The movement to channel? Art nouveau with a distinctly postmodern air. Mickey, India Mahdavi’s swirling Viennese design, transports the classic bentwood lounge chair straight to Disneyland. From Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, from €3,910.


The romantic botanicals of Rameau Fleuri wallpaper are being revived from the riches of the Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler archive (£696 per roll). This trellis pattern is bang on the English country-house-style trend that’s currently in bloom
© Deane Herne

Full flower
The romantic botanicals of Rameau Fleuri wallpaper are being revived from the riches of the Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler archive (£696 per roll). This trellis pattern is bang on the English country-house-style trend that’s currently in bloom.


Ceramicist Frances Palmer has fashioned unglazed clay containers (from £1,800) inspired by the ancients – and artists Cy Twombly and Brâncuşi – to set against de Gournay’s exuberant Mughal paper collection
© Alexandra Shamis

Terracotta trophies
Ceramicist Frances Palmer has fashioned unglazed clay containers (from £1,800) inspired by the ancients — and artists Cy Twombly and Brâncuşi — to set against de Gournay’s exuberant Mughal paper collection.


Drinks cabinets are the new artisanal statement-maker. The more hand-wrought and rough-hewn the better. Tiled Welcome drinks cabinet inspired by the ceramic adornments of Britain’s railway stations, by Matthew Raw, £26,360, from The New Craftsmen
© Photography by Jasper Fry for The New Craftsmen

Crafty cocktail cabinets
Drinks cabinets are the new artisanal statement-maker. The more hand-wrought and rough-hewn the better. Tiled Welcome drinks cabinet inspired by the ceramic adornments of Britain’s railway stations, by Matthew Raw, £26,360, from The New Craftsmen.


Woven hand-block-printed linen textiles are having a moment. Whether by Drusus Tabor for Schumacher or by designer Jermaine Gallacher, they tell a modernist tale reminiscent of the naturalistic abstract wonder of English artist Ben Nicholson
© Drusus Tabor for Schumacher/William Abranowicz

Block stars
Woven hand-block-printed linen textiles are having a moment. Whether by Drusus Tabor for Schumacher or by designer Jermaine Gallacher, they tell a modernist tale reminiscent of the naturalistic abstract wonder of English artist Ben Nicholson.


Bold, chalky and sophisticated, the new big-top stripes are defined by their earthy and off-beat palette. Pavilion table lamp in Stripe by Palefire Studio x 8 Holland Street, £770, exclusively from 8hollandstreet.com
© Kim Lightbody

Clowning around
Bold, chalky and sophisticated, the new big-top stripes are defined by their earthy and offbeat palette. Pavilion table lamp in Stripe by Palefire Studio x 8 Holland Street, £770, exclusively from 8hollandstreet.com.


Malachite gets a kaleidoscopic retool. This high-octane handpainted and lacquered table, POA, by PPCDV (the newest incarnation of design duo Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos) takes sitting-room psychedelia into the stratosphere.
© PPCDV

Mineral of the moment
Malachite gets a kaleidoscopic retool. This high-octane hand-painted and lacquered table, POA, by PPCDV (the newest incarnation of design duo Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos) takes sitting-room psychedelia into the stratosphere.


Counter stools go back to the bronze age. Anna Karlin’s wrought-iron seating forgoes the froufrou of filigree with a sculptural, glyph-like silhouette that’s elegantly elemental, £4,300 each, from Anna Karlin Furniture + Fine Objects. annakarlin.com
© Johnny Miller

Sit here
Counter stools go back to the bronze age. Anna Karlin’s wrought-iron seating forgoes the frou-frou of filigree with a sculptural, glyph-like silhouette that’s elegantly elemental, £4,300 each, from Anna Karlin Furniture + Fine Objects. annakarlin.com.


Glass outshines ceramic as the playful tile du jour. Balineum’s translucent designs borrow from the aquatic, poppy hues of David Hockney’s Californian swimming pool in A Bigger Splash. Dive in from £2.85 per tile
© Harry Alexander

Art of glass
Glass outshines ceramic as the playful tile du jour. Balineum’s translucent designs borrow from the aquatic, poppy hues of David Hockney’s Californian swimming pool in A Bigger Splash. Dive in from £2.85 per tile.


Peter Mikic’s brilliantly glossy Bordeaux-toned drinks tray for The Lacquer Company calls to mind the Dazzle ships of the first world war. The aesthetic challenge: to conjure a cocktail to visually compete. In three sizes, from £295
© The Lacquer Company

Tray chic
Peter Mikic’s brilliantly glossy Bordeaux-toned drinks tray for The Lacquer Company calls to mind the Dazzle ships of the first world war. The aesthetic challenge: to conjure a cocktail to visually compete. In three sizes, from £295.


Corduroy supplants bouclé as the most wanted textile: tactile, enduring and perennially chic – especially rendered in rose-petal pink (BDDW Fabric #243). Seen here on the cast-blackened, bronze-footed Abel sofa, from $21,300, from BBDW
© BDDW

Corduroy cool
Corduroy supplants bouclé as the most wanted textile: tactile, enduring and perennially chic — especially rendered in rose-petal pink (BDDW Fabric #243). Seen here on the cast-blackened, bronze-footed Abel sofa, from $21,300, from BBDW.


Bauhaus is back – did it ever go away? – but this time it’s the women artists who are looming large. Gunta Stölzl’s 1923 flat-weave rug spotlights the textile talent of the German school’s first female master (Karl Largerfeld was a fan). £8,500, from Christopher Farr

Women who weave
Bauhaus is back — did it ever go away? — but this time it’s the women artists who are looming large. Gunta Stölzl’s 1923 flat-weave rug spotlights the textile talent of the German school’s first female master (Karl Lagerfeld was a fan). £8,500, from Christopher Farr.


Modernist marvels feel new again. Jamb’s art deco style ‘Astor’ chimneypiece in black marble and onyx lends deeply glamorous Soanian drama to the drawing room, £27,500 + VAT
© Michael Sinclair

Bright young things get lit
Modernist marvels feel new again. Jamb’s art deco style ‘Astor’ chimneypiece in black marble and onyx lends deeply glamorous Soanian drama to the drawing room, £27,500 + VAT.


Make it reign: Purple, that most regal – and marmite – of pigments is making a majestic comeback. See the colourful kente-influenced embossed nubuck leather ‘Chester’ sofa by British menswear designer Ozwald Boateng for Poltrona Frau, £13,230 + VAT
© Courtesy of Poltrona Frau

The colour purple
Make it reign: Purple, that most regal — and marmite — of pigments is making a majestic comeback. See the colourful kente-influenced embossed nubuck leather ‘Chester’ sofa by British menswear designer Ozwald Boateng for Poltrona Frau, £13,230 + VAT.


Inspired carpets: Rugs hark back to the 1980s with primary-hued, hand-woven jacquard floor coverings that pack a geometric punch. Flower Grid wool rug from Chateau Orlando by Luke Edward Hall for cc-tapis, £3.764
© Oli Kearon

Power dressing — for floors
Inspired carpets: Rugs hark back to the 1980s with primary-hued, hand-woven jacquard floor coverings that pack a geometric punch. Flower Grid wool rug from Chateau Orlando by Luke Edward Hall for cc-tapis, £3.764.

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