François Botherel began obsessively collecting and colour-coding thousands of shells before encrusting every inch of his 1980s house in Brittany with them

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

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 

Tasked with the union of two adjacent properties, architects Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty submerge themselves into Moroccan tradition to create a property as complex as the old city in which it is situated

Carving a finca from land his baroness grandmother left him, Javier González Sánchez-Dalp has, writes Cosmo Brockway, adroitly addressed his clan’s chattels and dashing characters

Thanks to a grant and a large dose of creative imagination, Tim Jones and Meena Chodha turned a dilapidated shop into a home for themselves, and a vibrant, bijou gallery space for artists

Jeweller Johnnie Lloyd Morgan is selling the Georgian rectory he shared with an expert collector – and its contents. Who will bid for Charles II’s hairbrush?

From antique textiles to objets and artworks, the past is ever present in the Manhattan apartment that the designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla and her husband, Aaron Aujla, share with their new child