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For Rita Konig, interior design isn’t only about coherence and comfort: it should be a celebration of stuff. Giles Kime charts her transatlantic career

The designer, writer and presenter shares the cosy, welcoming colours, lighting and textures that are part of her signature look

Mary Portas at ‘Harvey Nicks’

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers

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As she stars in the new Karl Lagerfeld campaign, Paris Hilton reflects on the designer’s legacy