The capital’s designers proved they know how to sell the fantasy, say Rebecca Lowthorpe and Henrik Lischke

When Giovanny Arroba, the new boss of Nissan Design Europe, notes that history is written on the walls of his new workplace, he’s talking quite literally. The Japanese manufacturer’s Paddington studio

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The acquisition of houses by the National Trust from the 1930s had less to do with the impoverishment of aristocratic families than the industrial wealth of bachelor donors, as Michael Hall reveals

A NEW SEASON ALWAYS BLOWS IN A DIFFERENT STYLE DIRECTION, BUT THERE’S ONE ENDURING CLASSIC THAT NEVER SO MUCH AS WAVERS. NAUTICAL STRIPES, CRISP WHITE COTTONS AND THE CHIC TRINITY OF BLUE, WHITE AND RED…

Not many people move into a new home only to find enthusiastic strangers routinely turning up looking for a place to stay the night, but if the house in question was once a youth hostel sequestered in