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Houses
Michael S Smith brings influences from Mallorca's rich history to a clifftop house
In an extract from Classic by Design, the latest book to chronicle Michael S Smith's work, Andrew Ferren introduces a beautiful Mallorcan house
By Andrew Ferren
Houses
Designer John Stefanidis has created a home with a mythic quality on the Greek island of Patmos
To celebrate the publication of his new book John Stefanidis: A Designer's Eye, House & Garden revisits the interior that was the genesis of it all, the home he created on the Greek island of Patmos
By Emily Senior
Houses
Inside designer Carolina Irving's Portuguese house
Doyenne of fabrics Carolina Irving has turned her eye for texture and print to creating a diminutive but super stylish house full of bottle greens and rusty reds. Her friend, the interior designer Remy Renzullo, explains.
By Remy Renzullo
European Houses
A stylish house in Mykonos combining bold mid-century pieces with natural materials
Travels in the Cyclades inf luenced the decoration of Rebecca Körner’s house on Mykonos, in which the Australian interior designer has combined bold mid-century pieces with stylish elements in natural materials
By James McDonald
Houses
Five centuries of history are at the heart of Jasper Conran's Greek island house
In an extract from Miguel Flores-Vianna's new book Haute Bohemians: Greece, the author explores the magical world of the designer's historic Lindos house
By Miguel Flores-Vianna
Décoration
A paradisiacal villa by the coast in Ibiza
Designed by the architect Amaro Sánchez de Moya, this clifftop villa in Ibiza brings whitewashed walls and organic architecture together in style
By Fanny Guénon des Mesnards
Houses
A textile designer’s bright, airy Swedish summer bolt-hole
Cathy Nordström’s sommarstuga or summer cabin is a spacious and family-friendly getaway bursting with colour and pattern – with many of its fabrics designed by Cathy herself
By Thomas Barrie
European Houses
A rustic Ibizan finca filled with an unconventional collection of furniture and objects
In an extract from 'Life's A Beach', a book celebrating seaside homes around the world, we take a look at an airy, characterful finca in Ibiza
By Laura Box
Designers' houses
Designer Anna Spiro's vivid Brisbane cottage indulges her love of mixing colour & pattern
Anna Spiro’s Brisbane guest cottage is a place of experimentation, where the Australian interior designer can indulge her love of mixing colours and patterns
Houses by the sea
A furniture designer skilfully updates a house built by her great-grandfather in the twenties
Having inherited this house in the South of France, Anne-Marie Midy of Casamidy has skilfully updated it, while retaining the charming feel she and her brother remembered from their childhood. Anne-Marie and her husband Jorge's house in northern Mexico features in the May issue of House & Garden (out now) click here to download for free or subscribe to a whole year for £12.
By Hatta Byng
Houses by the sea
The restoration of this thatched cabana in Portugal is pure escapism
Jewellery designer Suzanne Syz's thatched cabanas in Portugal's unspoilt Alentejo region provide a relaxed setting for her impressive collection of iconic furniture
Houses by the sea
A couple who ditched the London art scene for a simpler life in Greece
Australian author, photographer and designer Claire Lloyd and her British partner, artist Matthew Usmar Lauder, ditched the London arts scene in 2007. In search of a simpler life they moved to a small village on the Greek island of Lesvos, and since have been living the proverbial dream - give or take the odd dip back into city society in London and Sydney for work...