As the UK grapples with overcrowded prisons, she aims to change their design to make them feel less institutional and more like homes. In Bath, a Victorian cottage is her own great escape
Simultaneously renovating their London house and opening a restaurant made for high drama in the lives of the It’s Bagels! founder and the Reluxe retailer — but the reward is a sanctuary
His official residence may be on Kensington’s billionaires’ row, but Oslo’s man in London insists he is not ‘elite’ — and that after weeks in transit, those Christmas trees are bound to look a bit scruffy
The advertising maverick’s crenellated Sussex mansion strives for immortality — but are a new book ‘Orgasm’ and a bid for The Daily Telegraph really part of the plan?
Following personal and professional turmoil, the designer has moved into a 1970s villa whose ‘challenging’ aesthetic is an oddly inspiring canvas
She ended up in Panajachel by chance, but never left — building a home on a former coffee plantation that’s rooted in the landscape and filled with colour
Her flat in Mexico City is full of furnishings from local markets — from giant tarot cards to old doctor’s cabinets — yet still feels unmistakably British
Ancient cultures and decorative arts entwine with personal history in the sculptor’s one-bedroom Parisian apartment
In 1978, the ceramicist arrived in New York, buying an apartment in an old girdle factory in the Flatiron district. Much has changed, but his home remains true to the area’s creative past
Florence and James Kennedy’s 200-year-old home in Cornwall is both a working flower farm, and a minimalist sanctuary
The British-Indian collector found just the place to house his Le Corbusier and Jeanneret pieces — a dilapidated pottery in north London. So he set about restoring it
He helped make Singapore a garden city, and the same ethos informs the design of his home
A grand Georgian town house — The Spectator’s former offices — is a riot of bold-patterned wallpaper that calls to mind Arts and Crafts, the Bloomsbury Group and Wiener Werkstätte
Anders Kornestedt designed his coastal retreat to make looking for birds a seamless proposition. His tally is 275 species, one of the highest in Sweden
Life, work and contemporary art come together in Nicolas Mazet and Kate Davis’s sensitive renovation of an 18th-century manor house
When the beauty entrepreneur felt the pull of Zealand, she resolved to build on the local legacy of her great-grandfather
The outspoken Beijing-based business leader is moving to Washington — but his art and antiques paint a vivid picture of three decades speaking truth to power
A converted tractor shed is the canvas for a house decorated in the same free-spirited style as her artistic heroes
An award-winning home-studio overlooking the wildest of London’s cemeteries echoes the artist’s installations focusing on form and light in flux
The 19th-century Gothic Revival church is a modern-day domestic sanctuary for the Brooklyn-based artist
The Taiwanese tech entrepreneur on buying art, wine and nine storeys of his building, letting his four-year-old choose a Picasso for her bedroom and holding firm in the face of threats from China
She talks to Gillian Tett about transatlantic friendship, night walks with her dog, Barack Obama’s envy of her house, and echoes of her life in Netflix’s ‘The Diplomat’
His theatrical home on the sea feeds the creativity of the British set designer as he conjures his manifold projects
After living on almost every continent, the Swiss artist relished the challenge of taking on a 1,000-year-old home near where he was born
The designer-architect popularised the multifunctional sofa and the kitchen island, both now landmarks
