Author: My World of Interiors
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Affordable Style: Guesthouses and Country Inns of Provence
Provence is a region of lavender fields, sunlit villages, and markets overflowing with olives, cheese, and wine. While it has no shortage of glamorous châteaux and Michelin-starred retreats, Provence also hides a network of intimate guesthouses and family-run country inns that embody the region’s essence. Here, the luxury is in the scent of rosemary carried…
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Isabella Blow: Fashion’s Fearless Muse
In the theatre of late twentieth-century fashion, no figure was as magnetic, or as tragic, as Isabella Blow (1958–2007). A style editor, talent scout, and muse, she was a woman who blurred the line between the backstage and the spotlight. To know Isabella Blow was to witness fashion as performance, risk, and revelation. To lose…
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Three Cinematic Villas in Italy
If Villa Malaparte is the most iconic villa on screen, it is not alone. Italy’s landscape of villas — patrician palaces, lakeside estates, country retreats — has long provided cinema with atmosphere and grandeur. 1. Villa Erba, Lake Como Film: Luchino Visconti’s family home; later featured in Ocean’s Twelve (2004). Why it matters: This 19th-century…
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Villa Malaparte, Capri: A Modernist Monument on the Edge of the Sea
Perched on the cliffs of Capri’s Punta Massullo, its red walls blazing against the Tyrrhenian Sea, Villa Malaparte is one of the most arresting houses of the 20th century. At once austere and theatrical, it is both architectural landmark and cinematic icon, immortalised in Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (1963). Few houses better embody the interplay of…
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Twiggy: The Girl Who Became an Era
In 1966, Britain had a new monarch. Not one of crown and throne, but of hair, eyes, and attitude. Lesley Hornby—nicknamed Twiggy for her reed-slender frame—was just sixteen when she became “The Face of ’66.” In a single season, she transformed from a hairdresser’s assistant in Neasden into the international emblem of Swinging London. With…
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The Phantom Carriage: A Haunting New Year’s Tale
Among the treasures of silent cinema, few films are as haunting — or as seasonally apt — as Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage (1921). Set on New Year’s Eve, it spins a chilling legend: the last person to die before midnight must drive Death’s spectral carriage for the next year, collecting souls along the way.…
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The Glamour of New Year’s Eve Style
New Year’s Eve has always been more than a date — it is a performance. The last night of the year invites transformation: sequins shimmer brighter, velvet feels richer, champagne tastes sharper. Fashion has long been the language of this ritual, each decade reinventing how the midnight hour should look. The Jazz Age Sparkle In…
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The Ritual of Renewal: New Year’s Eve Across Time
Every year, as midnight approaches, the world holds its breath. Glasses are lifted, clocks tick down, crowds gather in squares and living rooms alike. The turning of the year is both the simplest of rituals — the passage of time — and the most charged: a moment that transforms calendars into ceremonies, routine into theatre.…
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Affordable Style: Boutique Guesthouses of the Cyclades
The Cyclades have long been associated with dazzling whitewashed villages, blue-domed churches, and luxury resorts. Yet the soul of these islands often reveals itself in smaller pensions, guesthouses, and family-run boutique hotels. These are places where shutters open onto bougainvillea-filled courtyards, breakfasts feature homemade yogurt and figs, and hospitality feels effortless and personal. Here, authenticity…
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Truman Capote’s Swans: Society’s Last Great Myth
In the gilded world of mid-century society, there existed a rarefied circle of women who seemed to embody elegance itself. They were wealthy, beautiful, impeccably dressed — but above all, they were admired for their poise. Truman Capote, who both adored and betrayed them, christened them his “swans.” To this day, their names evoke a…
