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The best journalism from the @financialtimes on residential property, interiors, gardens and architecture

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'To give someone the burden of a plant can be a wonderful way to honour a friendship — unless it’s an orchid. Remove anyone from your life who gives you an orchid' on.ft.com/4dJgGVJ

If you can’t look after a pot plant — what kind of person are you?

A dismal collection of plants, each one in a different state of dying — but clinging on — speaks volumes

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Medici, Carnegie, Guggenheim — the passionate collector is a dying breed. In their place? The interior designer. on.ft.com/3X0vLNk

Where have all the connoisseur collectors gone?

The passionate, erudite collector in the mould of Medici, Carnegie and Guggenheim is a dying breed. Is the interior designer today’s tastemaker king?

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There are mountains of 'unloved' stone offcuts sitting in UK quarries. Could they replace traditional clay bricks in housebuilding? on.ft.com/3YY08W7
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'Ripped Asbo seagulls' or misunderstood creatures? on.ft.com/4fF9fAI

Seagulls just wanna have fun

Summer is here, and so are the seaside scavengers. But we have lots in common with the much-maligned birds — let’s celebrate it

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At home with Charlotte Semler, at the house she built on the coastal idyll of her childhood summers on.ft.com/46ICjDx

Charlotte Semler’s Danish flat-pack: ‘You have to surrender to the sand’

When the beauty entrepreneur felt the pull of Zealand, she resolved to build on the local legacy of her great-grandfather

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When São Paulo’s Modernist architectural legacy is 'fast disappearing under a carpet of new apartment blocks', annual event 'Aberto' aims to showcase these incredible interiors on.ft.com/3StANPp

Inside the hidden Modernist houses of São Paulo

Aberto, a new annual art show staged amid the fragile remnants of the city’s architectural legacy, opens up striking unseen interiors

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Jonathan Guthrie's Nature Therapy column is back! This week: a defence of the humble seagull on.ft.com/4dCxUE3

Seagulls just wanna have fun

Summer is here, and so are the seaside scavengers. But we have lots in common with the much-maligned birds — let’s celebrate it

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When São Paulo’s Modernist architectural legacy is 'fast disappearing under a carpet of new apartment blocks', annual event 'Aberto' aims to showcase these incredible interiors on.ft.com/3SBZTvQ

Inside the hidden Modernist houses of São Paulo

Aberto, a new annual art show staged amid the fragile remnants of the city’s architectural legacy, opens up striking unseen interiors

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'A bright blue pool might look enticing in the heat of an Ibizan summer but it jars with the British countryside' on.ft.com/4dtO82k
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Haven't been invited to a mate's house party for a while? This might be the reason. on.ft.com/3YtAGHq

The end of the house party

Have the housing and rental markets finally killed this form of wild, bombastic chaos — and reduced it to a nostalgic, commercialised ‘immersive experience’?

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'Most of it is a complete waste of time. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably trying to sell you something' on.ft.com/3ydELVP

Kids’ furniture is a con

Parents have been indoctrinated to think that buying child-specific designs is a question of survival. It’s not

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Buying agents say more homebuyers in the sub-£1mn market are turning to the professionals. Is it money well spent? on.ft.com/4c8fj1D

Call my buying agent!

Once the preserve of the wealthiest, these specialists are now being sought out across the property spectrum 

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One of the longest-serving foreign business leaders in China spoke to the FT about his love of Chinese art and antiques, witnessing the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and speaking truth to power on.ft.com/46tsCsg

BASF’s Joerg Wuttke: ‘The essence of China is this warrior’

The outspoken Beijing-based business leader is moving to Washington — but his art and antiques paint a vivid picture of three decades speaking truth to power 

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'The region smells like conifers. Pine and spruce and balsam. Wild flowers. Driftwood. Game. Clean air': @LizMooreBooks on her cabin in the Adironacks on.ft.com/4bXKM6P
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ICYMI: @emmavj spoke to parents, psychologists and lawyers about 'birdnesting'. Is the living arrangement a source of stability — or prolonged pain? on.ft.com/4bS4LDM

Is ‘birdnesting’ the answer for divorcing parents?

The arrangement in which children of separated couples stay in the family home with one parent, before the other swaps in, is taking off

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Wwe paid a visit to Rana Begum's enigmatic home-studio, overlooking the dramatic wilds of Abney Park cemetery in London on.ft.com/3Weh5IA
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'I have closets full of stories that are not my own': Jazz Charton grapples with the fate of inherited family trinkets on.ft.com/4d7HYor

Why do we keep the junk we inherit?

To fight off the horror of oblivion? To memorialise banality? Grief is strange

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Patrick Grant's mission to restore a lost garden begins with two pigs, Hazel and Acorn, to help clear the jungle on.ft.com/4d5NYy2

Diary of a garden rescue: Patrick Grant begins a replanting odyssey

In the first of a new series, the designer and ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ judge enlists a pair of Oxford Sandy and Black pigs to clear his tangle of bramble

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For divorcing parents, is 'birdnesting' a brilliant transitional arrangement that gives children stability — or a living nightmare that just prolongs the agony for everyone? on.ft.com/3ycYtAH

Is ‘birdnesting’ the answer for divorcing parents?

The arrangement in which children of separated couples stay in the family home with one parent, before the other swaps in, is taking off

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Some say 'birdnesting' — keeping the children in the family home while their separated parents swap in and out — offers continuity at a time of upheaval; for others, it prolongs the pain of a marital split on.ft.com/46axsdM

Is ‘birdnesting’ the answer for divorcing parents?

The arrangement in which children of separated couples stay in the family home with one parent, before the other swaps in, is taking off

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