Amy Sherlock

3 weeks ago | worldofinteriors.com | Amy Sherlock

What makes a great bath great? For Leonard Koren, it is ‘simply, or rather not-so-simply, a place that helps bring my fundamental sense of who I am into focus’. Koren would know. It was he that introduced the world to ‘gourmet bathing’ – a semi-ironic epithet he nevertheless took seriously enough to dedicate an entire magazine to.

Jun 6, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Amy Sherlock

On 22 June 1936, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, issued a press release announcing ‘a very unusual one-man, one-week show, which will be opened to the public Wednesday, June 24, at one p.m.’ The one man was Edward Steichen, at that time chief photographer for the Condé Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, and the best-known, most handsomely paid man in the game.

May 9, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Amy Sherlock

Though still off-grid, this 1840 cottage in Snowdonia, North Wales, has become increasingly domesticated during recent decades, thanks to the attentions of owner Alex Willcock, co-founder of high-end homeware and furniture brand Maker & Son. The drive to the cottage is not for the faint of heart. The narrow lane rises for several kilometres into the hills south of Snowdon, passing, via several tight switchbacks, through ancient woodland, washed lilac with bluebells as we pass in mid-May.

Mar 31, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Amy Sherlock

Whoever said nature can’t be improved on clearly wasn’t au fait with the exacting bunch of artisans around the world crafting flowers in everything from feathers to clay. When she was growing up in Washington dc, Carmen Almon’s family travelled around a lot; she never had a garden. Flowers have always appeared to her as strange beings in whose struggle for survival with the elements she detects a parallel to human experience.

Nov 7, 2023 | worldofinteriors.com | Amy Sherlock

We said we weren’t going to buy a project,’ the artist Glenn Brown explains. The project in question was a ten-bedroom manor house, sitting in 42 acres of rolling English countryside, uninhabited and at the centre of a bitter and controversial lawsuit between the local council’s planning department and its previous owners. Nine enforcement notices had been issued for violations of its Grade II listing. Original panelling had been ripped out and fireplaces had gone, as had floorboards and cornicing.