Artistic Impressions

The artist has spent over six decades crystallising contemporary images of her homeland that defy convention, many of which are now on show at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

Bamboo is anything more than hollow concept for Gianluca Longo, who relied on his natural instincts to seek out the best Salone del Mobile 2025 had to offer

Ahead of her debut exhibition, discover how Sienna Murdoch conjures frankly weird (and wobbly) pieces for television and film using her own jelly like invention, Geline.

When French/Tunisian artist and designer Thierry Journo moved to the legendary Pink City of Jaipur, he was energised by its symphony of colours to create a home that sought inspiration from a dazzling array of sources, both European and Indian

Behold! Invoking the essence of rare and understated objects, antique dealer John Volleman enkindles a centuries-spanning nomadic narrative in his Brussels apartment, offering up a vision of spare beauty

Few designers have taken their love of marine biology underwater, but then not many have been as resourceful as the late Susan Williams-Ellis, who scuba-dived the world’s oceans armed with tracing paper and wax crayons. These motifs wash up on the ceramics the polymath created for Portmeirion pottery

How Otto Saumarez Smith’s home in central London became a faithful homage to Modernist aesthetics, from Festival of Britain flourishes to those early-era Corbusian colours

Bronze artist and designer Osanna Visconti’s chic wax moulds find a home in her new Milan apartment-cum-atelier

Monumental metal sculptures dominated the prolific career of French artist Pierre Sabatier, whose legacy is kept alive by his son Damien. The latter invited WoI into the Paris family apartment where his father spent most of his productive life

‘The Doors’ by Tracey Emin respond to the way women have been sidelined throughout art history

Stories, colours and patterns thread through Eppie Thompson’s east London flat – one of which is her tale of Fabled Thread; the embroidery kit company she started after ditching her job in finance