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Taking the owners’ love of photography as inspiration, this Victorian house was given a family-focused contemporary makeover

As we are ramshackle ramblers, Dieppe distracts us from our art tour of southwest France’s Languedoc-Roussillon. As if that’s not enough, we then border-hop between Catalonia and France, before detour

Musicians, astronomers and artists all played a part in the story of this historic Surrey Hills home, which has begun a new chapter with the help of design studio Gunter & Co

The rebirth of this Parisian apartment has placed the beauty of wood and shapely forms at its heart