Ian Archie Beck, Elton John and les Frères Perverts.
A family of aesthetes live here, in Thames-side Isleworth to the west of London. These are some clues to their identity. The hanging mugs feature monochrome woodblock vignettes of the Dorset countryside... 
Big Old House, Fen-land.
Richard and Patricia Hewlings live in the Fens, the district known as the Holy land of England. Their house is a flat-fronted, red brick farmhouse with a pretty Georgian doorcase, and an older wing jettying...
Reminiscences of my visit to Smedmore.
I stayed at lovely Smedmore House in Dorset, settled in its green declivity between ridge-backed Purbeck hills, in May. The first day was grey, with scudding wind and rain, but then the sun came out....
John Martin Robinson, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary and architectural historian
This is the London dwelling of John Martin Robinson, aesthete, architectural historian and controversialist. He holds the offices of Maltravers Herald Extraordinary, Librarian to the Duke of Norfolk and Vice Chairman of the Georgian Group...
Romilly Saumarez Smith, a maker and her house in East London.
From a temporary gallery arranged in the downstairs rooms of her house in Stepney, Romilly Saumarez Smith has just sold her latest jewellery collection. 'That collection is done now, we'll make up the orders but...
The Englishman’s Room, Gavin Stamp and Anti-Ugly.
The architectural historian and writer Gavin Stamp is one of the 'new Georgians,' pioneers of gentrification who brought up their families in the unloved and unlovely bits of London, where boarded up and multi-occupied old...
London Calling.
My friends Bridie Hall and Ben Pentreath are a decorative artist and an architect, both designers and interior designers who also keep an excellent shop, Pentreath and Hall. This week we are doing something together....
Mr. Dodd at home, 2 : Country.
Local children nicknamed this seventeenth century folly 'Mustard-pot Hall.' It stands on the edge of a field in south-eastern England. ALAN DODD has lived here since the 1980s. I was a guest here one weekend...
Philippa Kunisch, Jeweller.
Philippa Kunisch lives in north London, with her whippet, Moth. Philippa is part Scottish, Moth is from Yorkshire. She bought this lamp from a flea market in America. She bought...
Joe Hemming, artist, stone carver, part-time shed-dweller.
Joe Hemming carves incised and relief images and lettering in stone, slate and wood, and plays the violin in a string swing band. Home, recycled architectural elements He was brought up in Constantine...
