Sophie Dahl's pick of the House & Garden archive

An English banker and a well-known muse have transformed an ordinary Provençal farmhouse into something remarkable

Keiko Kitamura and Terry Ellis's Brixton home is a testing ground for the furniture, textiles, and ceramics they produce as part of their work

As a new exhibition of Cecil Beaton's photography opens at the National Portrait Gallery, we revisit a 1962 feature on Cecil Beaton's country house in Wiltshire, Redditch House

We revisit our February 2008 feature on his life and work. Editor at Large Liz Elliot spent time with Nicky in London and at home in Hampshire, and understands how he has become one of the most important figures - and characters - in British interior design

Since finishing the renovation of her husband's farmhouse in County Durham, our columnist Rita Konig has seen the colourful interiors come to life in ways she could not have imagine at the project's start

Having taken on the lease of a Georgian parsonage situated in a Dorset village, Ben Pentreath set about furnishing and gently restoring it, making an impact with small, considered changes.

In the first of a series, our Arts Editor Emily Tobin talks to Annie Morris, the artist known for vibrant stack sculptures, in her east London studio