Marco Mansi
Art historian and interiors journalist
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The rooms that changed us: an eighteenth-century house that embodies the Georgian love of the exotic
In the latest of a series exploring influential rooms and the histories behind them, Marco Mansi turns his attention to Spencer House, one of London's grandest Georgian residences, and its glorious Palm Room
The renovation of Jacques Grange's Parisian apartment in the Palais Royal
It has been 15 years since House & Garden last featured the king of French decorating, Jacques Grange's Paris apartment. With new photographs from renowned interiors photographer Ricardo Lebougle's new book ‘Inside Paris’, the recently renovated space and his vast and eclectic collection gets better and better
The rooms that changed us: Queen Charlotte's Kew cottage picnic room, hand-painted by a princess
Garden rooms can be incredibly charming, and none more so than the ‘Picnic Room’ at Queen Charlotte's Cottage in Kew, which was decorated by her daughter, Princess Elizabeth. Marco Mansi explores the room's legacy and how it has influenced subsequent iterations of the garden room
The rooms that changed us: Napoleon's splendid tented bedroom at his Paris château
Designed to resemble one of the great general's campaign tents, the fabric-draped room has been a huge influence on generations of designers
The rooms that changed us: the marvellous Art Deco bathrooms of Paris' Quai d'Orsay
Designed for the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the gleaming bathrooms of France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs were a triumph of Art Deco creativity, and have been hugely influential ever since. Marco Mansi explores their history and considers how to get the look at home