Plain English work-ethics – the artist-designer and craftsman Greg Powlesland’s house and workshops at Frenchman’s Creek
This is the house that Greg Powlesland built - artist, designer, maker, boat-builder and reclaimer, repairer and re-purposer of old things - boats, vehicles, architectural salvage and industrial materials. He shares it with his... 
Breakfast at Manor Farm, Carlos Sanchez-Garcia’s homestead, sunny Sunday morning.
Country house vernacular is what Carlos Sanchez-Garcia does - with knobs on. HIs magpie eye spots and classifies all the multifarious strands and elements he comes across everywhere he goes, distilling them into a...
Jane Hill at Shepherd’s Cottage: Every picture tells a story.
Jane Hill has lived at Shepherd's Cottage for about 20 years now. Its unique, a seventeenth century backlands cottage just behind Highgate high street, once inhabited by a sheep drover who may have penned...
The Last of Old England – Gretchen Andersen and Old Manor Farm
‘To start with this house had hardly any furniture. The men who moved us in were so shocked they left us the tea chests, so we used them for a year at least.’ This...
Beauty and Utility in Dorsetshire – Bonfield Block-Printers
This is Bonfield Block-Printers, the workshop and home of Janet Tristram and Cameron Short and family, in Thorncombe village, Dorset. They came here about 9 years ago - This is their story,...
Morality, Architecture and Belief, Quinlan and Christine Terry at home and work in Suffolk
Quinlan Terry is a deeply serious proselytiser for classical architecture.His traditional practice - operating outside the mainstream architectural establishment - has gained him many plaudits and the occasional brickbat. Half-hidden by a...
Viola Lanari, artist, home and studio – in her own words
'I came here in 2011. The flat was all white, I was a student, but I had people renting the spare room. I was trying to fill the void, buying things and hanging them everywhere.'...
The Magpie Eye : Mark Hearld
Mark Hearld is the busy, polygamous artist and maker whom I've long wanted to meet. He has made multiple marriages, to print-making and collage, drawing and painting, lino-cutting, ceramics, wallpaper and textile design, cut-outs and...
Gretchen Andersen, and her extraordinary Lacquer Chest of Treasures
At the Lacquer Chest, her fabled antiques shop in Kensington Church Street, Gretchen Andersen has a ringside seat from which to monitor and influence the shifting sands of our changing taste in things. When she...
‘An agreeable house to live in’ : Wolfeton House near Dorchester.
Wolveton ( or Wolfeton) House stands in its little plot of green verdant land bordered by water meadows to the north-west of Dorchester, where trees and docks grow tall and small creeping flowers with...
