Mirrors

This playful piece will raise a smile in any room

Coffee tables like diamonds, mirrors like brooches, chandeliers like necklaces – homeowners are making uplifting decorative statements with jewel-like contemporary furnishings. Charlotte Abrahams reports

Lucia van der Post previews the highlights of a new peripatetic exhibition of innovative design in the French Riviera’s beautiful Villa La Vigie

Dramatic and uplifting finds make this Madrid emporium one of the world’s leading dealers in 20th-century art and design

London-based Tree Couture creates masterful cabinetry

Sculpture and immersive performance coalesce at Studio Leigh

Sterling Studios creates hand-painted glass walls and hand-oxidised mirror panels

Portuguese designers are now injecting contemporary verve into statement furniture and lighting, marrying traditional craft with a new playful sophistication. Nicole Swengley reports

Elizabethan portraiture swapped for a cabinet of curious furnishings

Sublime surfaces enriched with ancient artisanal techniques

Secret compartments, tech features and sculptural clout are just some of the elements transforming valet stands and cabinets into handsome boys’ toys. Nicole Swengley reports

Artist-designed mirrors run the gamut from poetically beautiful to conceptually intriguing, says Lucia van der Post

Raising funds for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

Interiors inspiration abounds at this e-store-cum-magazine

£50

144cm x 108cm, in gold-finished mahogany, £2,613. Also in silver/other sizes

Mirrored façades are creating homes that are part art installation, part camouflaged hideaway – their appearance changing with the season, weather and even hour. Dominic Bradbury reports

Prepare to be seduced by a playful use of geometry in the new pared-back furniture collections. Jenny Dalton reports