Artistic Impressions

Casa Batlló in Barcelona is a wonder of wavy proportions. To mark the centenary of Antoni Gaudí’s death, the famed ‘dragon house’ has an eye-opening makeover that both respects and reinforces the great architect’s genius

Quentin Blake, the illustrator known for his charismatic Roald Dahl characters, has opened a space dedicated to the craft in London

Snobs might curl their lips, but the ‘kitschy-campy’ keepsakes London Underground designer Enid Marx arrayed on her mantel had a working-class authenticity that informed her designs

The French photo festival Les Rencontres d’Arles spotlights photobooks, family histories and new readings of forgotten archives

The ‘Earthship’ movement is alive and well in Taos, where an LA-based landscape designer finds harbour in a radical 1980s house

The World of Interiors editor Emily Tobin, WoI’s creative director at large Hamish Bowles, food writer Nigel Slater, historian Jessica B. Harris, and novelist Olivia Laing join the panel for our open call for new writing. ‘No bots allowed,’ says digital director Elly Parsons

Pat Oleszko juggles performance art with junk sculpture and millinery with militancy at her pun-tastic loft apartment in Tribeca, New York

From Roman times to the present day, this history of bookbinding, based on the Bodleian Library’s collection, will appeal to craft lovers, bibliophiles and book historians alike

The September issue explores the multitude of ways in which a space can be about our physical self. Welcome to the Body Issue, says Emily Tobin

North of Soho, where a demi-monde of Modernist artists once lived, collector Antony Wright has been bringing home the Bacon (Hockney, Vaughan...)

From a radical ‘Earthship’ in New Mexico to a highbrow flat in Soho, from Denmark’s Queen of craft to a B&B-owning Orthodox priest, the August issue of The World of Interiors is chock-full of surprises