Alice Inggs

Nov 12, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Alice Inggs

When Victoria Beckham’s flagship store first opened on Dover Street in 2014, it rubbed seams with another experimental emporium: Rei Kawakubo and Adrian Joffe’s Dover Street Market, the punk-coded den of Comme-centred cool then occupying what had previously been the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Nov 5, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Alice Inggs

Does the man wear the moustache or the moustache the man? To paraphrase an anecdote from Michael Peppiatt’s 2015 memoir Francis Bacon in Your Blood, the darkly dandy artist once described Norman Mailer as wearing his chest hair like a woman wears pearls. Raise one’s eyes from this hirsute vision and settle on the jawline, where, through history, artists, statesmen, mystics and movie stars have worn their facial hair like Rouge Dior.

Oct 17, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Alice Inggs

Is it William Morris’s arsenic-infused wallpapers or Daphne du Maurier’s metaphors that have suffused Britain’s country houses with sly magic? Or is it their settings? Eryri National Park in Wales (formerly known as Snowdonia) is one such mythic backdrop, with its hilltops whipped by roaring winds and its gloomy woodland, and thick mists sweeping in from Cardigan Bay like a rushing tide.

Sep 20, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Alice Inggs |Ariadne Fletcher |Alice Kemp-Habib |David Lipton

These emerging designers are ones to watch, handpicked by the WoI team. Take your pick from sinuous glass to vibrant beaded tapestries, or boldly geometric lighting to tableware-with-a-twist. Sanaa Gateja has been dubbed the ‘Bead King’ in Uganda, thanks to his pioneering use of waste paper – transforming books, brochures and all manner of paper waste into beads.

Sep 20, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Alice Inggs |Ariadne Fletcher |Alice Kemp-Habib |David Lipton

These emerging designers are ones to watch, handpicked by the WoI team. Take your pick from sinuous glass to vibrant beaded tapestries, or boldly geometric lighting to tableware-with-a-twist. Sanaa Gateja has been dubbed the ‘Bead King’ in Uganda, thanks to his pioneering use of waste paper – transforming books, brochures and all manner of paper waste into beads.