Interiors

The muted tones and relaxed chic of Madonna’s Miami pad provide a cool contrast to her dazzling global status. First published: September 1994

Simon Upton has done up a former vicarage in Devon. Observe how this well-travelled snapper of sumptuous salons shaped his own space

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

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

Moving to an Art Deco Manhattan apartment gave a rare opportunity to Hussein Omar, an antiquities collector who has made acquisition his mission

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

Bidyut Kumar Roy, a carver of
houses, and Lipi Biswas, a pro
pinch-potter, dish the dirt on
life in their mud house in a rural West Bengal artist haven

The majestic queen of craft, HM Queen Margrethe of Denmark, slices up copies of WoI in her home studio, also known as Fredensborg Palace

In 1844 a cash-strapped Charles Dickens decamped to Villa Pallavicino delle Peschiere, a luscious Genoa palazzo where conditions were opulent

Watched over by a Gothic church, the village of Arucas tends to rather ascetic modes of display. But hidden from pious eyes, a Christophe Gollut-designed confection unfolds in irreverent luxuriance across an array of richly decorated rooms