Author: My World of Interiors

  • THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE

    THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE

    There is a particular kind of intelligence required to notice what everybody else has agreed not to notice. David Sedaris has built a career from it. For more than three decades, he has observed families, airports, shop assistants, lovers, language lessons, neighbours, strangers and himself with the peculiar concentration of an anthropologist who has somehow…

  • The Human Condition According to Walt Whitman

    The Human Condition According to Walt Whitman

    By Bergotte Walt Whitman’s answer to the human condition is the most audacious in all of literature: yes. Not the qualified yes of the philosopher who has weighed the evidence, not the fragile yes of the survivor who has come through suffering and found something on the other side, but the absolute, prior, unconditional yes…

  • Room to Move: Issey Miyake’s Spring/Summer 2027 Collection

    Room to Move: Issey Miyake’s Spring/Summer 2027 Collection

    With Figure of Ma, Satoshi Kondo gives the space between body and cloth an eloquent, exuberant form. A fashion collection becomes especially compelling when its ideas can be understood through the clothes themselves. Satoshi Kondo’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection for Issey Miyake, presented at the Dojo de Paris on 2 October 2026, has precisely that quality.…

  • Diébédo Francis Kéré: Building With the Village

    Diébédo Francis Kéré: Building With the Village

    Diébédo Francis Kéré grew up in a village in Burkina Faso with no electricity and no school. He went to Berlin on a scholarship, became an architect, and came back to build one. What he discovered in that act — about materials, about community, about what architecture is actually for — has been reshaping the…

  • What’s So Special About Joy Division

    What’s So Special About Joy Division

    By Bergotte Joy Division made two studio albums and a handful of singles between 1978 and 1980, and their singer Ian Curtis hanged himself in his kitchen in Macclesfield on the eve of the band’s first American tour, at the age of twenty-three. It would be easy — it has been easy, for forty years…

  • The 90s at Tate Britain: Art, Fashion and the Politics of Belonging

    The 90s at Tate Britain: Art, Fashion and the Politics of Belonging

    The 1990s have become unusually easy to recognise and increasingly difficult to remember in their complexity. Kate Moss, a slip dress, a warehouse party, a shark suspended in formaldehyde: the decade survives through images whose familiarity can conceal the circumstances that produced them. Tate Britain’s new exhibition, The 90s: Art and Fashion, brings this visual…

  • ADHD in Women: What the Monash Study Reveals

    ADHD in Women: What the Monash Study Reveals

    For women living with ADHD, changes in concentration, organisation or emotional regulation can make previously manageable routines unexpectedly difficult. Research from Monash University’s HER Centre Australia gives women a reason to bring hormonal patterns into that conversation. Understanding when difficulties intensify may help identify the support, treatment reviews and everyday adjustments that would make life…

  • Everything Flows: Who We Are According to Heraclitus

    Everything Flows: Who We Are According to Heraclitus

    He wrote one book, deposited it in the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and walked into the mountains. What survives of the book is approximately a hundred and thirty fragments — sentences, half-sentences, paradoxes, riddles — that have been puzzling serious readers for two and a half thousand years. He is the most difficult and…

  • Sorø Kunstmuseum: Sophie Dupont and the Art of Attention

    Sorø Kunstmuseum: Sophie Dupont and the Art of Attention

    At Sorø Kunstmuseum, an empty room painted by Anna Ancher, a Russian icon of mother and child, and an installation shaped by visitors’ breathing offer three very different encounters with human presence. Their proximity is part of the museum’s interest: a visit can move between domestic observation, religious devotion and the experiments of contemporary art…

  • Affordable Style: Inns and Guesthouses of the Northern California Coast

    Affordable Style: Inns and Guesthouses of the Northern California Coast

    The stretch of coastline from Mendocino to Big Sur is one of America’s most dramatic landscapes: redwood forests plunging into the Pacific, wildflower meadows giving way to rocky cliffs, and small towns shaped by artists and bohemians. While boutique resorts command oceanfront views, there are still plenty of inns and guesthouses where character and charm…