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The Aesthete

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Style
    Art collector Batia Ofer talks taste

    The London-based philanthropist loves kohl eyeliner, Lalique deer and a dream-filled sleep

    Batia Ofer at home in London
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
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    The Aesthetes’ pick of the best books, podcasts and music for summer

    From gothy pop to witchy reads, 20 tastemakers share their favourite recommendations

    Recent reads at Courtney Love’s home in London
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    HTSIThe HTSI adrenaline issue
    Architect Eugene Tssui: ‘I would like to have been a benevolent dictator’

    The architect and Olympian gets pumped on pull-ups, Przewalski’s horse dung and Superman

    Eugene Tssui at home in Emeryville, California
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Books
    Eden Revisited novelist Umberto Pasti talks taste

    The writer and celebrated gardener loves begonias, Botticelli’s Primavera and birds of paradise

    Umberto Pasti in the sitting room of his home in Tangier
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Sport
    Surf legend and artist Tony Caramanico talks taste

    The artist loves Warhols, a banging breakfast and the tropical rock of Jimmy Buffett

    Tony Caramanico at home in Montauk, Long Island
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Style
    New York chef and TV host Sophia Roe talks taste

    Diamond Crystal kosher salt, spoons and Donna Summer’s fringe top her list of likes 

    Sophia Roe at home in New York
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Visual Arts
    Dutch painter Peggy Kuiper talks taste

    The Amsterdam-based artist loves “oversized fits”, early-morning dips and Cy Twombly’s Bacchus series

    Peggy Kuiper in the studio at her home in Amsterdam
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Fashion
    Model, muse and novelist Penelope Tree talks taste

    The fashion legend loves Australian art, her birdsong app and Co-op champagne

  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
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    Chef Francis Mallmann: ‘True life starts at 60’

    The open-fire cook is a ‘bit of a lady’, loves Swiss chocolate and writes with a Meisterstück by Montblanc

    Mallmann at home, wearing one of his custom-made berets
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Style
    The Elder Statesman’s Greg Chait talks taste

    The cashmere designer has a soft spot for surfboards, serious hi-fi and a 1964 Chevy Impala

    Chait wears a custom coat by Husbands Paris at his home in Malibu
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
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    Fashion designer Walé Adeyemi talks taste

    The founder of streetwear label B-side loves rollerskating, fluorescent pens and his Coca-Cola drinks cooler

    Walé Adeyemi in his north London home. Behind him are artworks depicting (clockwise from bottom left) Biggie Smalls, Muhammad Ali and Barack Obama, the latter by artist Benjamin Wachenje
  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
    Style
    Fashion designer Anu Hinduja talks taste

    The co-founder of F1-inspired fashion label AN-Y1 loves karaoke, cheesecake and her Cartier Crash

    Anu Hinduja at home in London
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Style
    Milliner and artist Maryam Keyhani talks taste

    The Berlin-based creative plumps for Persian pickles, Larmandier-Bernier champagne and ‘little hits of silly’

    Maryam Keyhani at home in Berlin, with headpieces from her archives
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Interiors
    Michael Bargo talks taste

    The interior designer loves ironed sheets, Yohji Yamamoto and Temo, his Mexican chihuahua

    Michael Bargo at home in New York with (on left) his lamp by David Lynch
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    Music
    St Vincent talks taste

    The musician Annie Clark loves flasher coats, food candles and phone calls 

    St Vincent at home in Los Angeles
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    HTSIThe HTSI Paris special
    Serpent à Plume’s Alexander Rash talks taste

    The founder of the cult cocktail bar loves ice cream, a 9in point collar and running along the Seine

    Alexander Rash at home in Paris
  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI spring menswear special 2024
    The Dunhill creative director’s black book of style

    Simon Holloway talks Brideshead Revisited, Yorkshire tea and “good old British tailoring”

    Simon Holloway at home in London; on the wall are photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Film
    Poor Things co-production designer Shona Heath talks taste

    The Oscar-winning art director loves geraniums, fish fingers and Ace Ventura’s trousers

    Shona Heath at home in London
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more
    Peter Blake: ‘I have mixed feelings about Sgt Pepper’

    The legendary pop artist opens his black book of style

    Peter Blake photographed at home in Chiswick, with a drawing by Ben Nicholson to his left and two by David Hockney above him
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    HTSIBig spring energy – an HTSI style special
    Carine Roitfeld, the legendary stylist, talks taste

    The fashion editor hates showers, has a crush on Damon Albarn and got her first tattoo at 69

    Carine Roitfeld at home in Paris
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Visual Arts
    Portrait photographer Pieter Hugo talks taste

    The Cape Town-based artist is ‘a fiend for Birkenstocks’, channels The Dude and loves his Nissan Patrol GRX

    Pieter Hugo photographed at home in Cape Town, wrapped in a blanket made by his wife, Tamsyn
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Film
    Bryce Dallas Howard talks taste

    The Argylle actress loves DIY eyelashes, the Dewey Decimal System and quilted vests

    Bryce Dallas Howard at home in Los Angeles. A vintage gold fan hangs on the wall behind her
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    Style
    Luisa Beccaria talks taste

    The Italian fashion and homewares designer on Dior lipstick, Capri and her collection of Madonnas 

    Luisa Beccaria wears a dress of her own design. Behind her hangs a painting bought at an auction in Sotheby’s New York
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    Shopping and gifts
    My favourite gift – as suggested by the Aesthetes

    Isabel Allende, Courtney Love, Gaetano Pesce and others share great presents they have given – and received

    Kim Sion’s ceramic Ron Nagle cup
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    Visual Arts
    Artist Andrew Logan’s list of likes

    The sculptor, jeweller and performance artist on Barbie, Brian Eno and being blown away by the Taj Mahal

    Andrew Logan at home in Berriew, Wales
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