August magazine
The places we return to, the makers we work with, and the quiet work of turning a house into a home, written from inside our collections.
Collections
How each collection comes into being: the thinking, the makers, the homes.
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Finding Sant'Angelo
A Grand Pied-à-Terre is made for settling into a city, rather than simply passing through it. Across Rome, Paris, London, Barcelona and Cannes, the Collection brings together homes where mornings can be unhurried, evenings run late and friends gather around the table. With generous living spaces and room for family and friends, there is space to entertain, spend time together and make the home part of the experience of the city itself. It is with this idea in mind that we are bringing to life a new Grand Pied-à-Terre collection, Sant'Angelo.
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Woven into Paloma: An Artist Collaboration with Kenia Almaraz Murillo
The Prime Collection has always been about more than beautiful homes. It’s about how those homes feel to live in, how they hold memory, and quietly shape the rhythm of everyday life. As Prime enters its second chapter with the Paloma Collection, that philosophy continues through a new artistic collaboration, this time with Waddington Custot Gallery and Bolivian-born artist Kenia Almaraz Murillo. This is the second artist collaboration for August, and one that felt instinctively aligned. Kenia’s work explores heritage, migration and the emotional weight carried through materials, ideas that sit naturally within spaces designed to be lived in and defined by place. In conversation with Kenia, we spoke about memory, family, and what it means for her woven works to move from the gallery into the intimacy of the home.
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Introducing Paloma: Prime’s Second Chapter
August's most coveted collection just got an extraordinary sequel. Following the sell-out success of our first Prime collection, we’re unveiling Paloma, the next evolution in our high-design experience. Rooted in effortless luxury and designed to deepen our signature blend of authenticity, craftsmanship, and community, Paloma is more than four exquisite homes, it’s a way of life.
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Inside each home: the renovations, the rooms and the people who shaped them.
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Introducing Le Tour
Le Tour takes its name from the road that climbs to it, a quiet lane on Mont d’Arbois where old farmhouses sit among the pines and snow slides from the roofs in the afternoon sun. It is the second home in the Bastide Collection, a Prime collection, and the first in the mountains. This hillside has a story of its own. In 1921, Baroness Noémie de Rothschild opened the Domaine du Mont d’Arbois here, having set out to give France its answer to St Moritz. Families followed, and Megève grew into a ski village where grand hotels and old wooden farmhouses still stand side by side. A century on, Mont d’Arbois keeps the same unhurried pace. Studio RL, August’s in-house interior design studio, has shaped the chalet to suit it: a house for full days outdoors and long evenings together.
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Terra e Ombra: the bespoke art of Villa Castellina
At Villa Castellina, the art begins at the window. For generations, these rooms have looked out over the hills of Chianti, holding the story of the house in their brickwork and their views. The Tuscan home of August’s first Prime collection, Bastide, is a generous house of long corridors, quiet corners and walls that ask for something to hold. Filling them has been an act of curation: antique finds, new pieces and works made for this home alone. It is those bespoke pieces that this story follows. Guided by Francesca, Head of Design at Studio RL, August’s in house interior design studio, each was commissioned to look back at the house itself: its history, its structure and the light across its land. "Every piece should feel curated, with a soul of its own and a direct line to the Tuscan landscape," she explains. "Grounded, but never rustic."
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Designing Rome: Inside Our First Roman Grand Pied à Terre
Some homes begin with a blank canvas. This Rome Grand Pied à Terre began with something far richer: parquet floors, timber detailing, an inherited marble fireplace and the atmosphere of a period apartment already carrying its own history. Set in Prati, the three bedroom apartment brings August’s design-led approach to one of the city’s most elegant neighbourhoods. Working with interior designer Samantha Jayne Hayward, the apartment was shaped around curation, comfort and consistency, drawing out its original character while introducing a more contemporary way of living. The result is a distinctly Roman private home: architectural, expressive and deeply layered, balancing the grandeur of the city with the intimacy of a home.
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Where to go and what to do, from the trattoria worth the drive to the walk best taken at dawn.
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The Mallorca Edit
The best travel advice rarely comes from a guidebook. It comes from a friend who's just been somewhere, and hasn't quite unpacked yet. Our Advisory team returned from Mallorca recently in exactly that mood. After hosting an open home at the River Avon Collection's recently launched Townhouse, they came back full of favourites: some old, some newly discovered, all worth passing on. This is where to swim, where to eat, and where to spend a morning working hard enough to deserve both.
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From August Homes: An Insiders Day Trip to Bath
There’s something special about returning to the same place, not only because of the familiarity, but because it removes any sense of rush. Day trips further afield suddenly feel easier, without the worry of missing out, and you’re free to really soak up what’s around you. This is the first in a series of day trips we’ll be sharing, starting close to home, with easy escapes from our London and Cotswolds houses. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, a spontaneous escape feels particularly called for, and the first place we always suggest is Bath. The best part? Bath is only around 90 minutes by direct train from London Paddington, making it one of the most civilised day trips you can take from the capital. Early start, late supper back home, no overnight bag required.
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Winter in Mallorca: A Local’s Guide, With Tara
Mallorca is often imagined in high summer, all long lunches and sun-drenched beaches. But when winter arrives, the island softens.The roads quieten and villages breathe out while the landscape grows greener, and daily life feels gently reclaimed by those who call the island home. For those spending the season in their August home, winter is a chance to experience Mallorca as locals do. And few people know that rhythm better than Tara, our property manager on the island, who looks after your homes year-round and lives in Palma with her dog, Rory. From preparing log fires and stocking wood baskets to readying terraces for sunny afternoons that still invite you outdoors, Tara shares what makes Mallorca in winter quietly special.
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Gatherings, conversations and the rituals of life across the collections.
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In Good Company: an evening at The Maine
This October, owners and future owners from across the August collections gathered in Mayfair for an evening of conversation. It was a chance to catch up with familiar faces, make new connections and share stories of time spent in August homes.
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For Some, It Starts With a Friend
Some of the best recommendations are never advertised. They happen over dinner, on a phone call, in a passing comment between friends, someone talking about a place they love, simply because they want the people closest to them to know about it too. That is how many August homeowners first hear about us. Not through a marketing campaign, but through a friend who has already found their way here, and who thought of them the moment the subject came up. It is a quieter kind of introduction, built entirely on trust rather than persuasion, and it tends to say more about August than anything we could write ourselves. This is the story of three households. Michele and David joined August first. In time, they welcomed two more families: Jan and Simon joining a Pied à Terre Collection, and Mark a Signature Collection. Different homes, different collections, the same trusted introduction.
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Collected on the Riviera: A Guide to Nice and Antibes Antique Markets
The final layer of an August home is often found not in a showroom, but under a striped awning, between chipped plates, a sun-warmed tray and a dealer unlikely to accept your first offer. For our latest design led homes in the South of France, across the Terme Premium and Son Vida Signature Collections, our team sourced pieces at the antique markets in Nice and Antibes. These trips are not just about finding objects, but about helping each home feel rooted in its setting. Here, that might mean antique glassware, framed artwork, Provençal pottery or a slightly cracked mosaic tile. These details stop a home feeling staged and instead make it feel collected, lived in and quietly connected to the region. Here, we take you behind the scenes of navigating these iconic Riviera markets, long celebrated as part of the region’s cultural fabric, and share what we sourced for these particular August homes.
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