Design news for November
The best new design this month from craft for Christmas to the best font for writing about philosophy
Features
Gus Van Sant: ‘We are living in a wilder time than anything we could imagine’
He is the king of the Hollywood underground. So why has he made a mini-series for Gucci? The film-maker talks about life in isolation, his gay president project and the big screen’s demise
Super-rich buying up ‘Downton Abbey estates’ to escape pandemic
Sales of £15m-plus English country homes breaking records as wealthy families ‘recalibrate their priorities’
Gentle skincare products for the menopause
Let’s hear it for the beauty brands doing their best for middle-aged women
‘All I want is chocolate’: Jamie Oliver and other top chefs on their Christmas wish lists
Tinned fish, ceramic tableware and cornettos – Santa’s sack is full of unusual treats for our chefs and food writers
‘We’re going to the skies and stars!’ The man building our jetpack future – in tribute to his Dad
Richard Browning is pursuing the stuff of a million childhood dreams. But having built a working jetpack, will anybody use it?