Gemma Lilly and Charlotte Reddington of the Style Sisters reveal their expert strategies for professional home organisation ...

Atmospheric and full of soul, the Wiltshire home of Leo and Sarah Vaughan Williams is layered with family history ...

'There are around 200 to 300 rooms and between 50 to 80 bedrooms,’ says Fiona, 8th Countess of Carnarvon of Highclere Castle, the ancestral home propelled to fame as the location for Downton Abbey in ...

The antiques fair calendar is always filled to the brim with fabulous events, sales and markets. So, whether you're searching for a unique piece to add to your collections, on the look out for a ...

While online shopping has boomed in recent years, it does tend to be a rather soulless process. Britain’s antiques centres and shops offer an alternative, one-of-a-kind experience – the antidote to ...

Undulating curves, sleek lines and an elegant, symmetrical form, this is the archetypal mantel vase. Designed by renowned florist Constance Spry for Fulham Pottery in the 1930s, it is perfectly ...

Your home is your castle, so the saying goes; and there’s no doubt that Britain has a rich architectural history. Houses here range in style from thatched Tudor cottages, right through to today’s new ...

Whether you’re seeking an active break with a chance to meet new people, or a tranquil bolthole to get away from it all, ...

We tend to think of the Arts and Crafts movement in male terms, of William Morris, for example, who co-founded the home furnishings company Morris & Co; of William De Morgan, who made lustreware ...

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 ...

The story of British porcelain starts over 3,000 years ago in China. By around AD100 the Chinese were making hard, high-fired pottery containing kaolin clay and petuntse rock, a material we now call ...

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 ...