DESIGN DIRECTORY

We bring you the best furnishings and accessories from Salone del Mobile and beyond, from monolithic tables and voluminous forms to earthy palettes and statement lighting. Plus, the latest kitchens and bathrooms

Past masters

Cassina paints the town red for the 50th anniversary of its star-studded

Green room

A community farming project in New Delhi now offers a leafy retreat for visiting artists

All Spruced Up

London practice Ao-ft's debut project is a carefully crafted timber house that perfectly slots into its urban landscape

Perfect Pitch

Designed by Eduardo Gellner in the 1950s, the Villaggio Eni holiday resort, in the Italian Dolomites, is being repurposed as a modernist refuge for artists and creatives

A temple to luxury

Designed by the late American architect Ed Tuttle, Aman’s Greek outpost is a heavenly hilltop retreat in the Peloponnese

Black beauty

An Audemars Piguet design classic goes over to the dark side

At home with ANDRÉ FU

We head to Hong Kong for a heart-to-heart with one of the hotel industry’s most-sought-after interior architects, where we discuss seafood, safaris, shoji paper artworks and cinematic inspiration

SHIFTING SANDS

By harnessing the power of luxury tourism to fund scientific projects, Kisawa Sanctuary aims to protect the Indian Ocean and its people

UZBEKISTAN

As Uzbekistan launches its first ever pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and plans a new art biennial for 2025, architect Marwa El Mubark visits the Silk Road capitals of Bukhara and Samarkand

ISLAND LIFE

A Barbadian villa by local practice Elements Architecture offers privacy, pizazz and pitch-perfect views for polo lovers

Plaster master

Veteran designer Elizabeth Garouste stays ahead of the curve with a new free-flowing collection for Ralph Pucci

POPS OF COLOUR

Artist Paola Paronetto’s vibrant collaboration with Veuve Clicquot puts a new spin on the bottle

Block Buster

Designed by Alberto Kalach, Stefan Brüggemann’s new studio and creative retreat in Ibiza doesn’t miss a beat

Top of the class

Flying non-stop to Australia is a dream ticket, thanks to Qantas’ slick new Airbus A350 cabins

Sound and vision

Danish audio brand Bang & Olufsen unveils Beosound A5, its most powerful portable speaker to date, designed by Danish-Italian studio GamFratesi

Frame by frame

Metal eyewear epitomises elegance with riffs on classic silhouettes

NEW HORIZONS

Mumbai’s star is in the ascendant as it bridges the gap between past and present, commercial investment and creativity

Lofty ambition

Amex is setting the bar high with a new space for its Centurion card members

Bare Essentials

The pared-back Casa Primitiva fits in perfectly in its semi-rural Spanish context

Balancing Act

Architect lan Chee welcomes us into his Singaporean home, where past and present cohabit in perfect equilibrium

Wildest dreams

An environmentalist's ambitious project in the Amazon fulfils his vision of powering up the local bioeconomy and saving humanity

Tokyo story

Heatherwick Studio's design for Azabudai Hills aims to bring some soulfulness and a slice of wildness to the megacity

Let there be light

Copenhagen's subterranean Cisternerne plays host to an illuminating installation by South Korean artist Kimsooja

WATCH THIS SPACE

From his vast studio in rural Portugal, Mircea Anghel experiments with new materials, designs and possibilities

THRILLERS IN THE MIST

A major survey at Milan art foundation Pirelli Hangar Bicocca shines new light on the sensorially stimulating work of Belgian visual artist Ann Veronica Janssens

Labour of love

A creative partnership between Lady Gaga and Dom Pérignon celebrates the champagne house's 2013 vintage. We talk hard work and happiness with the effervescent star

SHADOW PLAY

Hélène Binet's latest show at Euroluce casts new light on iconic pieces of architecture

Zest for life

Under the leadership of forward-thinking, fourth generation family member Maria Porro, Italian furniture brand Porro has an exciting and innovative future

OUT OF THIS WORLD

From organic buildings to naturė-inspired resin designs, Gaetano Pesce's unique creations never cease to amaze