The World of Interiors

24 ANTENNAE
What’s new in travelling style decoration
and design chosen by Nathalie Wilson

31 ANTENNAE ROUNDUP
Our selection of the best little luxuries for
life on the road

40 COSTUME DRAMATIST
Western lovers of Turkish fancy dress had their
very own portraitist says Briony Llewellyn

53 BOOKS
Damian Thompson’s Christmas round-up

66 BAUHAUS BELOW THE BORDER
Anni and Josef Albers saw ‘the Modern’ in pre-
Columbian cultures. Text: Charles Darwent

74 IMMOBILE HOME

The Lady in the Van is now a film – Alan Bennett

recalls the abode fixed for years in his driveway

83 SERIOUS PURSUITS

Auctions antique fairs and diverting activities

84 OUT AND ABOUT

Need to be navigated through hardy outdoor

fabrics? Miranda Sinclair leads the way

98 OUT OF THE BOX

From African to Nordic styles Max Egger

unpacks a world’s worth of furniture

109 NETWORK

Merchandise and events worldwide

114 ADDRESS BOOK

Suppliers in this issue

13 6 DRESS PARADE

National costumes inspire Jessica Hayns to

a decorator’s carnival of cultures

192 INSPIRATION

How to recreate some of the design

effects in this issue by Augusta Pownall

196 EXHIBITION DIARY

Calder’s world in motion Melville on

the Med plus Charlotte Edwards’s listings

216 JOURNAL OF A PHOTOGRAPHER

Magnum man Chris Steele-Perkins portrays all

of London’s nationalities in their own homes

INTERIORS

118 ITALIAN JOB?

This ‘third-millennium interpretation’ of the

Georgian tradition is curiously a steel-and-

glass cube nestled high in the Chilterns. Lee

Marshall indulges in some worldly time travel

14 4 JOURNEY’S END

A suburban churchyard seems a banal resting

place for Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton

• though his mausoleum styled like a desert
  tent is anything but as Tim Beddow reports

15 0 MOVEABLE FEASTS

Globetrotting collector Victoria Press filled her

Grand Canal palazzo with the city’s finest crafts.

‘To save Venice you need to save the Venetians’

her daughter explains to Marella Caracciolo

16 0 HIDDEN DRAGON

Billboards smoking and traffic lights are

banned in Bhutan and at this farmhouse high

up in the Himalayan kingdom the rest of

the world feels very far away. Text: Robin Muir

176 MAJESTY IN MOTION

Nineteenth-century monarchs travelled in

splendour as this dainty model of Napoleon

III’s train carriage shows. Finding it in a fabric

house’s archive Marie-France Boyer goes loco

182 DESTINATION UNKNOWN

Straw Christs and papier-mâché devils vie for

wall space in the Mexican casa of Deborah

Turbeville a jet-setting photographer who

probed fashion’s dark side. Text: Robin Muir

ART & ANTIQUES

128 WINDOW ON THE WORLD

The late Julian Barrow took an easel on foreign

trips hanging the finished work in his grand

Chelsea studios formerly occupied by Sargent

and Whistler. Peter York enjoys the views

168 LIGHT TRIP FANTASTIC

The European Space Agency offered art

photographer Edgar Martins unparalleled

access to its research stations and astronaut

training centres. Stephen Patience sees stars

CONTENTS

DECEMBER 2015

COVER The Bhutan clan – rural settlements in
the Himalayan foothills with their prayer drums
and painted rafters are normally hidden from the
outside world. We take the rap for exposing one
to view on page 160. Photograph: Tim Walker

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