Interiors

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

Hidden in cities and villages around Slovakia, these unique wedding halls, built during the 1960s–1980s, display an usual post-modern design typology. Adam Stech accompanies Sabina Jankovičová, author of a new book on this creative phenomenon, to these altars of aesthetic intervention

Much of the culinary mess in Sweden’s Tureholm Castle was kept in rooms other than its 1740s kitchen – and no wonder, says Marie-France Boyer, since, painted head to toe to echo fine china, it’s a rare rhapsody in blue

Is this a platter I see before me? Este Ceramiche’s table wares are piled with cheats, not eats. Since the 1770s, the playful trompe-l’oeil dinnerware derive from designs in the company’s historic archive, rediscovered in the 1950s

Illustrator Craig Chapman and his partner, artist Mandy Moon, run a tight ship over in their Penzance antiques shop, perennially trawling for new nautical rarities. And the couple’s home just behind it is just as appealing

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

Though the pink boiseries and Ottoman-style fumoir were down to men, feisty widows and orphaned daughters gave Este’s Villa Albrizzi its mystique, as Marella Caracciolo Chia reports

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

Every corner tells a story in the early 18th-century Greenwich home of artist Emily Patrick and her framer husband, Michael. The couple’s Crooms Hill residence, one of the oldest thoroughfares in London, is the latest chapter in an intriguing narrative of artistic inhabitants 

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