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The Jack Vettriano we knew

Fusty dark-brown furniture, a rickety bed and overflowing ashtrays: at home in Edinburgh with the great outsider of Scottish art, who has just died aged 73

A rare glimpse of Peter Hujar’s East Village loft

In the rare self-portraits showing the photographer at home, Peter Hujar’s East Village loft strikes the eye as a rather solitary space, with the lone lensman cast adrift – literally, in one case – amid the flat’s sparse holdings. But don’t rely on snap impressions: in fact, the pad played host to myriad meet-ups and tender shots of his starry milieu

Goodbye Thames houseboat – hello 1970s bungalow on the Cornish coast

Artists Tabby Booth and James Heslip abandoned their Kingston houseboat and headed southwest

Head in the clouds: Wendy Mandy’s patchwork estate in the Somerset hills

Wendy found her home in 1971, the way other people fall in love – instantly and irrevocably. Over the years her residence has expanded into a collection of outbuildings, with a Mongolian yurt, a showman’s wagon and a glassed-in summerhouse – all sprawled across the bucolic Somerset hills

Thierry Journo’s Jaipur home is awash with joyful ornamentation

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

From the archive: ‘Arboreal archeologist’ Isabella dalla Ragione has spent a lifetime searching for forgotten species of tree

Rare cultivars of Tuscan and Umbrian fruit – from briaca pears to fiorentina apples – put on a vibrant display at this ancient monastery orchard in the High Tiber Valley. Isabella dalla Ragione has spent over 40 years searching convents, family estates and abandoned farms for forgotten species of tree, bringing many back from the brink of extinction

Agustín Hernández’s 1970s home that blends Modernist principles with pre-Hispanic influences

The 1970s Valner house in Mexico City displays architect Agustín Hernández’s love of eye-catching geometry. He made Pythagoras glamorous, as Susana Ordovás discovers

Unlocking the apartment-turned-archive of sculptor Pierre Sabatier

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

Studio KO’s rambling medina home in Marrakesh

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

Decorator Javier González Sánchez-Dalp’s Seville home is filled with mementos of his parents

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