Since buying the Grade I-listed Nevill Holt Hall in 2000, the Carphone Warehouse co-founder has restored its original features, filled the house and grounds with contemporary art,— and established a festival of culture. There’s no standing still . . .
It took time for the co-founder of Mother to warm to small-town SoCal life. Now, he thinks the move to his Spanish Colonial house — with its blend of romance, rock‘n’roll and pinball machines — is ‘the best thing we ever did’
The entrepreneur’s London penthouse is filled with bitcoin-inspired artworks, trippy sculptures and dinosaur skulls. Its an insight into his interest in exploring new frontiers
The Raj-era bungalow in Lahore, with its book-laden labyrinth of rooms, has been a hub for cultural and political activism for 55 years — and the engine room for a new generation of south Asian creatives
Recent moves from Toronto to Brooklyn to Brussels to Paris have only stirred his creativity — and a historic rental in the 11th arrondissement has become a space of vibrant experimentation, and a place to grow
The Brazilian painter, whose work is the subject of a new show at the Musée d’Orsay, has created a meditative, folk-art filled urban escape for himself and Una, a stray dog rescued from the rainforest
For the châtelaine of Lismore Castle, a warm welcome keeps the spirit of this home — nurtured by centuries of eccentric characters — dynamic and forward looking
In the garden of his Devon family home, the children’s author has created the Tea House — a space to write, talk and, sometimes, nap
Moving to a Milanese palazzo penthouse was a coup de foudre, but the space reflects the former president of Dior Americas’ serpentine pathway there from Pennsylvania to Paris and New York
Her Modernist Palm Beach home is a blank canvas for the designer and collector’s trove of art, a mesh for her creative patronage and political fundraising — and the pristine nexus for a rotating cast of visitors. ‘Do you want to stay for lunch?’
The head of the Swiss bank’s 45,000-strong global art collection fills her Gilded Age brownstone in Brooklyn with recycled pieces, bohemian heirlooms and items salvaged from flea markets — and the sidewalk
The artist’s ceramic sculptures are intended to ‘make us dream of somewhere else’ — her Haussmannian home makes that a day-to-day reality
The London-based artisan has imprinted her 1980s architect-designed home with humour, exuberance and wonkiness in conversation with the building’s original quirks
The founder of the Rains fashion brand has restored a 19th-century industrialist’s summer house, flooding it with sun — and vibrant decor — during the dark Danish winter
Inside the jigsaw-like Essex cottage the sculptor shares with his ceramicist wife and painter daughter, countless curios paint a picture of how a bird-keeper became an artist collected by museums and royals
As the UK grapples with overcrowded prisons, she aims to change their design to make them feel less institutional and more like homes. In Bath, a Victorian cottage is her own great escape
Simultaneously renovating their London house and opening a restaurant made for high drama in the lives of the It’s Bagels! founder and the Reluxe retailer — but the reward is a sanctuary
His official residence may be on Kensington’s billionaires’ row, but Oslo’s man in London insists he is not ‘elite’ — and that after weeks in transit, those Christmas trees are bound to look a bit scruffy
The advertising maverick’s crenellated Sussex mansion strives for immortality — but are a new book ‘Orgasm’ and a bid for The Daily Telegraph really part of the plan?
Following personal and professional turmoil, the designer has moved into a 1970s villa whose ‘challenging’ aesthetic is an oddly inspiring canvas
She ended up in Panajachel by chance, but never left — building a home on a former coffee plantation that’s rooted in the landscape and filled with colour
Her flat in Mexico City is full of furnishings from local markets — from giant tarot cards to old doctor’s cabinets — yet still feels unmistakably British
Ancient cultures and decorative arts entwine with personal history in the sculptor’s one-bedroom Parisian apartment
In 1978, the ceramicist arrived in New York, buying an apartment in an old girdle factory in the Flatiron district. Much has changed, but his home remains true to the area’s creative past
Florence and James Kennedy’s 200-year-old home in Cornwall is both a working flower farm, and a minimalist sanctuary
