Nels Crosthwaite Eyre’s Hampshire house demonstrates her innate ability to create smart, but relaxed interiors that reflect the tastes and needs of a new generation, finds Eleanor Doughty. ‘Sometimes,’ says Nels Crosthwaite Eyre, ‘interior design feels like pulling rabbits out of hats.’ Rabbit pulling is something she does with consummate skill, particularly when turning […]

What the Bank of England’s latest interest rate decision could mean, the enclaves where more than 70% of homes are owned mortgage-free, and how homes are taking longer to shift: Annabel Dixon runs through what you need to know in the world of bricks and mortar. Had a busy week? We know the feeling. So […]

The renewed popularity of cottages is spawning dramatically different approaches to their interiors. It’s hard to know how much the current popularity of cottages derives from their quirky authenticity and how much from the fact that the exponential rise in values of larger country houses has put them beyond reach of all but the super […]

Frank Lloyd Wright’s visionary creations brought American architecture to the forefront. Agnes Stamp rounds up iconic residences for sale looking for their next guardian. The Circular Sun House Phoenix, Arizona — $8.95 million (about £7.1m) The Circular Sun House — also known as the Norman Lykes House, in Arizona. Credit: Casey Pickard via Deanna Peters […]

Extreme weather has long loomed large in the artist’s imagination. Michael Prodger celebrates the poetic beauty of Nature’s all-consuming fury. In late 1631, the 25-year-old Rembrandt van Rijn decided to try his luck in Amsterdam. He was, by then, a well-known painter in his native Leiden and had been talent spotted by connoisseurs who suggested […]