A love letter to...

More than a decade ago, the Mallorcan village of Deià stole interior designer Matthew Williamson’s heart

If season two of The White Lotus had you yearning for a chic waterside Italian escape, we’ve found just the place – albeit at the other end of the country. While that particular series of the hit TV s

hey say that Wales is home to more sheep than people, the UK has more potholes than miles of road, and at any given time a third of all French workers are on strike. But should you believe them? In my

Is a ring of 36 cherubs excessive? Perhaps, but those are only the ones around the southern Italian city of Lecce’s Basilica of Santa Croce’s rose window; I count dozens of additional cheeky winged ba

SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH ON LAKE ORTA

NO LONGER JUST SIMPLE BLUE RECTANGLES GLISTENING IN THE SUN, POOLS ARE TAKING ON DIFFERENT FORMS AND COLOURS – DIVE RIGHT IN TO SEE WHAT THE BEST DESIGNS DELIVER