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Essays, features and dispatches from the last twenty years – some written for The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian and Condé Nast Traveller, some about the work I do for brands, and some just because. Start with the most-read: the one about having a baby with my gay best friend.
I’m a volcano
Graça Paz is an artist who likes to break rules. Her husband Fransisco da Costa designed their concrete house in northern Portugal with huge windows that frame the landscape
Figuring it out
Monica lives with husband Even and their children Ludvig Thomas, 4, and Milla Karlotte, 3, in a 120-year-old house in southern Norway.
Solar energy
The best eco ideas work with what nature gives us, says Ellie Fazan. See the amazing difference that’s already been made by installing solar panels on the roof of the store in Catania, Sicily...
Bernd
Storyteller and party-thrower Bernd Vienna: ‘I love buying piles of fabric to use as outfits or just to drape in the flat as table-cloths or throws.’
Clear your mind
Joanna and Sebastian live with their dog Fika and their cats Koko, Antosz and Koksik in the countryside outside Warsaw
Nothing is forever
‘Coming here was a childish dream I shared with my ex, but we didn’t realise how hard life in the Italian countryside could be. Ten years ago the house was a wreck.