Mark C. O'Flaherty

Oh, the Beaumont, how do I love thee? Let me count just a few of the ways. Let’s start with the smell. All your corridors and stairwells have that just-laid, expensive carpet fragrance, gently scented with something wonderful I can’t quite identify. Then there are those vintage-looking lift dials in the hallways, informing guests precisely where the elevator is on its journey up or down.

Filled with a lifetime’s worth of antique treasures, the home of the former boutique owner Virginia Bates is still a social spot for her fashion-set friends. WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY MARK C O’FLAHERTY

Completing a trilogy of collections with indomitable women at their heart, the latest designs by Erdem bring yet another compelling narrative to life through beautifully crafted pieces drawing from the richest history. WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY MARK C O’FLAHERTY

But can you handle a herbaceous perfume?

More than mere workwear, the Norfolk label’s clothes have become classics. How will loyal fans manage without it?

For brands, controlling footfall improves security, creates an air of exclusivity and weeds out casual shoppers

There are pinks and then there are pinks. Millennial pink coloured the 2010s. Schiaparelli pink lit up the 1930s. Miami pink was the neon glow of the 1980s.

In the cinema of science-fiction, corridors take a lead role. It’s within those interstitial spaces that the action and beauty unfold, from intense moments of peril to the panning of backlit walls configured to look infinite in scale.

Meet New York’s new meme lords

The designer talks about perverse femininity, working with Gaultier and the influence of her Irish heritage

New exhibitions explore the legacy of the performance artist

A new book pays homage to the grande dame of drape

From a distance, the new curtains in the fashion designer Erica Toogood’s cottage on the borders of Hampshire and West Sussex look like billowing taffeta in a rich, golden khaki colour. “It’s actually waterproof fabric from a factory in Scotland,” says Toogood. WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY MARK C O’FLAHERTY

Excavation in modern architecture has a bad rap these day, but when furniture designer James Shaw bought a mini plot of land close to Columbia Road flower market in east London, he realised he would have to build down if he wanted to turn it into a home.

The result, developed with architect Nicholas Ashby, is an extension of James’s experimental, colourful product ... WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY MARK C O’FLAHERTY

The food is divine. The architecture is exquisite. So why is it lit like a hospital room?