IF THE HOME OF VINTERIOR FOUNDER Sandrine Zhang Ferron IS ANYTHING TO GO BY, THERE’S NOTHING OLD-FASHIONED ABOUT ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE DECOR

It was essential to me that the house retained its character and didn’t end up looking like a new-build,’ says Karen Schmidt of the renovation of her 1930s villa in Værløse, just outside of Copenhagen

Who do you live with and where? I live with my husband Sebastian and our two black Labradors, Trigger and Henry, between a townhouse in Notting Hill and our countryside home in Oxfordshire. London giv

Living in an old cottage in the Cotswolds, Vanessa Love wasn’t planning on a move 90 minutes away to Wiltshire, until her elderly mother, Ann, fell ill. ‘She was on her own, so I moved into her flat i

Esquire contributing style editor Gianluca Longo has a party trick: he can guess what a person’s decor looks like purely based on their outfit. It’s not so hard. Our sartorial sensibilities inspire our homes and vice versa. With that in mind, here are six characters the Italian tastemaker regularly bumps into on his travels (and some furniture inspiration for those who recognise themselves all too well).

As part of a basement reconfiguration, Kate Lynch has created a practical but beautiful shower room inspired by far-flung style