I remember walking past the grounds of Monkton House as an impressionable eleven year old and peering through the high fence from the South Downs Way and being bewitched by what lay beyond.

It feeds the creeks and inlets of this nook of south Cornwall, dotted with the villages of Devoran, Point and Feock. I always found certain auction catalogues to be an interesting read,’ says Thomas Persson, the magazine’s founding editor-in-chief, who was reinstated in the role in 2021 when Acne Paper was relaunched after a seven-year break. There is no need to hang art, as the dramatic views from behind the sliding glass doors take in the Cuillin mountains. When the couple split, James later replaced the carpet with one woven with the footprint pattern of his Irish wolfhound. Within the tiny waterside hamlet of Trolver Croft is a secluded four-bedroom home, tucked down a no-through road but elevated above the water with views over Restronguet Creek.Especially those that are made about someone’s private collection, maybe someone who had a very cultured life but now their furniture, objects and artworks have been put on auction for sale, due to their demise or because they want to sell things off. Protruding floor plates form balconies around the perimeter, while a vernacular pitched roof is topped with solar panels. Along with creative input from his friend, Salvador Dali, James transformed the six-bedroom, five-bathroom lodge designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1902-3 for his hugely wealthy parents, Mr and Mrs Willie James as a retreat from their Edwardian mansion, West Dean, on their 6,000-acre estate just north of Chichester. This grand Grade II*-listed Palladian mansion, with stone pavilion towers at each corner, is built around a courtyard. News from Dezeen Events Guide, a listings guide covering the leading design-related events taking place around the world.

The photographers include Jordan Hemingway (the entrance), Nikolai von Bismarck (the main bedroom), Sharna Osborne (the kitchen), Theo Liu (the living room) and fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu (the bathroom), among others; interviewees span interior designer Nicky Haslam, performance artist MJ Harper, scent artist Sissel Tolaas, architect Frida Escobedo and more. This house is also extraordinary, somewhat surrealistic with many elements from his sculpturegarden he was building in the Mexican dschungel for 20 years.For every issue we put much effort into the printing, binding and material specifications, something which makes the magazine an object in itself,’ he says. Apparently the National Heritage Memorial Fund deemed it ‘not of sufficient interest’ to warrant funding, according to this article. The new edition of Acne Studios’ printed magazine Acne Paper features ‘rooms’ filled with works and furniture by El Anatsui, Faye Toogood, Maurizio Cattelan, Rick Owens and others. Benoit Challand designed the building to reference Villa Savoye and Cabanon, two of the most famous houses by modernist architect Le Corbusier, as well as a series of artistic sculptures by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Petersburg, Florida, I always chat about Monkton House when I arrive with my tours at the vitrine housing one of the famous Lobster Telephones.

As for the continuing relevance of such print ephemera, Persson is steadfast that publications such as Acne Paper have a unique appeal that cannot be achieved on a ’laptop or iPhone screen’.

There is also a detached two-bedroom cottage and a one-bedroom coach house among the collection of outbuildings. Monkton House on the West Dean Estate in Chilgrove, West Sussex, belonged to Edward James, the eccentric and extremely wealthy Sussex gentleman who made Salvador Dali famous. Doors and widows ready fitted, stairs and chimney included, supplied flat pack with full assembly instructions. Ripon, North YorkshireOn Limekiln Bank, the road that runs out of Ripon and into the Nidderdale area of outstanding natural beauty, is Studley Park. Despite his incredible life, James was an underrated, little-known art world contributor, collector and patron of surrealism and believed passionately in outsider art.