In our Living with Landscape issue, we’ve dedicated an entire section to how we inhabit our green spaces. Led by garden editor Will Dangar’s interview with landscape designer Sam Cox, we understand the fundamentals of designing in place, for place, and get to know a significant number of Australian studios specialising in residential landscape architecture and design. Noteworthy outdoor furniture collaborations, and a monolithic home in the UK’s Cotswolds, carved out around a courtyard with interiors by McLaren Excell, complete this elemental insert.
But it is the joy of letting light and greenery in that knits this issue together, whether drinking in the vertical terraces and rooftop garden at Jolson’s House of Light, or a Victorian-era home by Manifold that shapeshifts through colour and materiality while honouring original proportions. In Sydney, Clay House by Muci is an architectural case study of clay products, down to the light fittings, and in Knokke, Belgium, architect Simon De Burbure creates a mini