The Emporium

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

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

In Kawakawa, a town on New Zealand’s North Island, artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s public loos – wildly tiled and all askew – turned architecture upside down. For all the wonk, it’s pretty flush, says Bill McKay

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

In the Roucas Blanc suburb of Marseille, a forgotten craft form born of the Rococo blends Portland cement with rural exoticism. The site in question, now run by the next generation of a family that’s overseen it for 40 years, has just been officially labelled a jardin remarquable by the French ministry of culture

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 

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

Modernism found a distinctive expression on the Hawaiian islands, thanks both to their isolation and the arrival of immigrant architects. In Honolulu, one can find extraordinary mid-century houses tailored to the tropical climate

Things to do, see, buy and eat in the UK this month, from teasingly tactile exhibitions to a plethora of pop-ups

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

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