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The London-based designer loves cycling, hand-shaped soap and the rules of a Japanese bath

The sculptor, jeweller and performance artist on Barbie, Brian Eno and being blown away by the Taj Mahal

The former entomologist talks about his new ‘Book of Games’, a typically mischievous volume of pranks and diversions

The painter has drawn on the city’s violent creative power to consider Mary, motherhood and muses

Her glass sculptures allude to the threats Black people face but also the possibility of a better world

With a new show of his ‘Charcoal Heads’ at the Courtauld, the painter on why, at 92, he is more than ever acutely aware of the Old Masters

A grand Georgian townhouse — The Spectator’s former offices — is a riot of bold-patterned wallpaper that calls to mind Arts and Crafts, the Bloomsbury Group and Wiener Werkstätte

Using old, abandoned objects to mourn the plight of his native Syria, Kourbaj creates works that speak with particular power to exiled author Hisham Matar

The designer spruces up with pine garlands, charades and 1920s showtunes

Her striking narratives mix African mythologies, the natural world and science fiction