Our Living with Landscape issue dedicates 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 minimal interpretation of the typical seaside villa.
After visiting Casa REdDUO in Milan, co-founders and designers Fabiola di Virgilio and Andrea Rosso welcome you into their sensorial universe. In the same way, following my serendipitous meeting with Newchild Gallery co-founder Sarah Vanwelden in Antwerp, the gallerist opens the doors to her own home, designed by close friends at design studio Contekst.
We’ve also brought our annual Best of est wrap-up into this issue, combining the most memorable projects across retail and hospitality design in 2025, with more homes from this series on estliving.com.
As a result of conversations, visits, tours and talks while based in London, I’ve written Design Correspondent, where you’ll find headlines about immersive new spaces and just-launched product collaborations.
– Sophie Lewis, editor
