Culture

Culture
Rome freely: textile artist Zazie Gnecchi Ruscone’s gloriously sequestered studio in Trastevere
Hidden behind the walls of a former builder’s merchant, textile artist Zazie Gnecchi Ruscone’s charming garden atelier is where her boldly geometric hand-painted textiles come to fruition
Author: Marella Caracciolo ChiaPhotographer: Manfredi Gioacchini

Culture
Inside the Met Gala 2026, as told by Hamish Bowles
Accessing his inner Pict, Mr Bowles rush-orders a costume for New York’s Met Gala – and hangs with Serena W and Cardi B
Author: Hamish Bowles

Interiors
Queen Margrethe’s curious passion for cut and paste
The majestic queen of craft, HM Queen Margrethe of Denmark, slices up copies of WoI in her home studio, also known as Fredensborg Palace
Author: David Lipton
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Culture
Announcing the Editorial Panel of the WoI x Montblanc Open Call for New Writing
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
Author: Elly Parsons

Culture
A Danish queen, an Orthodox priest and a puppeteer walk into WoI…
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
Author: Emily Tobin

Culture
Has the humble lawnmower eroded the art of gardening?
Postwar suburban living cast perfectly-manicured patches of green as the garden’s ideal form, but an unkempt lawn may be the ultimate status symbol
Author: Poppy Okotcha

Culture
Out of the blue: why Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul was such a constant in her life and art
The artist’s home in Coyoacán, Mexico City, was a site of refuge, respite and creative ingenuity
Author: Holly E J Black

Culture
Inside Europe’s last ateliers
Time stands still in Ateliers of Europe, which takes us inside some of the continent’s last and oldest artisan workshops dedicated to the decorative arts
Author: Alice InggsPhotographer: Oskar Proctor

Exhibitions
Prints among men: William Caxton brought the printing press to England
Last chance to see: an exhibition at Senate House Library traces the printer-publisher’s huge influence across country
Author: Holly E J Black

Culture
Hamish Bowles on Mario Praz’s magnificent Roman home
At the house museum of urbane design critic Mario Praz, Mr Bowles ticks a long awaited item off his bucket list
Author: Hamish Bowles