As a society, we’ve long had ingrained ideas about who does what around the house. Women do the cooking, men do the bins. Or something like that. But that extends to the very bones of the home, too.

“There’s a Finnish architect named Juhani Pallasmaa who said, ‘The door handle is the handshake of a building,’” Matilda Goad tells me ... celebrity style, fashion week updates, culture ...

For the London-based Matilda Goad, a love of pastels and lushly printed ... the Pimlico Road antiques shop, with Saint Lucia-style crowns and designed a pop-up British pub for the much ...

“There’s a Finnish architect named Juhani Pallasmaa who said, ‘The door handle is the handshake of a building,’” Matilda Goad tells me from her converted London conservatory, a space designed to ...

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