Tat London Journal

My good fellows, if you have not yet been introduced to the delights of Remy Mishon, allow me to remedy that. Remy and I worked together at House & Garden where, until recently, she was one of the brilliant minds behind the magazine's decorating stories. Interior styling is one of those professions that many assume begins and ends with the plumping of a cushion, artfully placing a pile of books in some baffling place and a throw of a throw.

My guess is that many antique dealers are on holiday and eyeing up some markets, it's a quiet time for the trade, and come August it is usually dead, so you rarely get to see much new stock on the market. Come September — wowie — your senses will be treated to all sorts of new finds from across Europe, I'd guess.

For years, I wanted to visit La Cupola, not simply to see a building, but to understand a place that seemed to exist somewhere between architecture, cinema, and memory. Ever since I first discovered Dante Bini's extraordinary dome, it had occupied a permanent place in my architectural imagination.