Explore lesser-known historic towns and cities packed with heritage attractions, beautiful architecture and characterful ...

The Homes & Antiques team comprises some of the UK's best interior designers, antiques experts and lifestyle journalists and editors. Produced by a committed team in Bristol, Homes & Antiques has a ...

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 ...

Nestled in Paris’s 17th arrondissement – all broad tree-lined streets filled with elegant Haussmannian buildings – Tiphaine Verdier’s apartment is something of a surprise. Spread over two floors, it’s ...

Think of a classic dolls’ house and you’ll probably picture a perfectly symmetrical building with soft red-brick walls, tall sash windows, detailing around the front door and a hipped roof with ...

The Georgian era was a golden age for craftsmanship and design. Here we explore some of the most influential movements and trends of the era... From vast, elegant townhouses to shapely brown furniture ...

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 ...

From a boyhood fascination with painting and woodwork to a career spanning the V&A and the valuations department at Christie’s, Leo Vaughan Williams has long been immersed in the world of fine art and ...

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 ...

In January a friend sent me an excited text having just discovered Nottingham’s ethereal Grade II*-listed Church Cemetery. Grade II*-listed Church Cemetery in Nottingham opened in 1856. - Heather ...

Made for show rather than practicality, mercury glass, ‘poor man’s silver’, or silvered glass as it is more accurately termed, usually has nothing to do with mercury, and varies in quality from ...

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 ...