Originally two stone farmhouses, this beautiful Somerset home blends colourful mid-century design with vintage finds and ...

Before you donate that old sideboard or armchair, check this list – some vintage IKEA pieces are now coveted collectables!

There is a definite chill in the air and sunrises of coppery light are burnishing the mists rolling over fields and rivers. It must be autumn. This issue, we give you everything you need to enjoy this ...

Once porcelain became available, it quickly replaced the use of wax and sugar, allowing the production of figures that could be used again and again. At fashionable 18th-century dinner parties, the ...

We all know that horrible sinking feeling when your favourite bowl or mug hits the floor. The crack of ceramic on tile is one we all dread. But what if there were a way of repairing broken ceramic and ...

Defined simply as a settee that seats two, but also known as a tête-à-tête, a causeuse, a confidante, a siamoise and a gossip couch, the form is common in many countries including Britain, France, and ...

The early months of marriage are, traditionally, wrapped in an atmosphere of carefree rose-scented romance. Giles and Sheila Udy took a different approach. ‘One of the first things I did after we got ...

Inhis book, Mad Toffs, The British Upper Classes At Their Best And Worst, Patrick Scrivenor writes:‘One of the Dukes of Devonshire… was one day buying silver at Asprey, when he noticed some circular ...

The Letterpress Collective first began in 2013 – a year after the last commercial letterpress printer shut its doors in the city of Bristol after 600 years. Founder Nick Hand saw an opportunity to ...

Originally created to embellish landscaped grounds surrounding royal palaces and chateaux, parterres have remained one of the most enduring of all garden styles. The individual elements of a ...

Regarded by most as an innovation of the 1970s, the Peacock chair actually owes its existence to the Spanish-American war of 1898. This short conflict ended with Spain ceding the Philippines to ...

A true ‘Cockney’, it is said, is someone who was born within the sound of the bells of St Mary-leBow church in east London. If a factory can be called a Cockney, then the Bow Porcelain Factory ...