Homes & Antiques

Tell us what inspires you in this issue of H&A. Tag @homes_antiques on Instagram or use the email address, right Writing this letter with a heavy frost outside, and plunging temperatures across the country, it's hard to imagine the end of winter. But

The 20th edition of Collect, the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design presented by the Crafts Council, returns to Somerset House. This landmark occasion will showcase the work of over 400 exceptional artists from 40 internatio

Fans of antique Indian textiles rejoice! The collaboration between the V&A and Sofas & Stuff has proved so successful, a third collection – Threads of India – has been curated. Once again, the museum's archive has provided the designs. Shown here is

The highly decorative Azulejos tiles, found in Porto and Lisbon, can now find a place in your own home with Everett and Blue's extensive collection of hand-painted beauties. From top, choose from: Beja, Braga, Aveiro and Cascais, £8.40 each. everetta

British ceramicist Fiona May hand-throws her cheerful pieces, so each one is ever so slightly different from the last. Add an exuberant posy for a sense that spring has sprung! Flora jug, £54. rowenandwren.co.uk ■

These charming Ditchley wall lights with metal bodies and frosted glass funnels are inspired by 19th-century interpretations of Queen Anne-style sconces. Each light is made to order and you can choose from an array of colours and paint effects, inclu

For the National Trust's second flooring collection with Amtico, the heritage charity has taken cues from Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. The collection is made up of six designs including Corinthian, which is inspired by the property's ceilings, and V

On his return from Africa in the 1920s, the celebrated architect and designer Sir Herbert Baker set about using the skills he'd honed over the preceding decades to create a garden bench for his family. The resulting piece was a beautiful feat of craf

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Back in the late 1990s, when wood-sculpting artists, and married couple, Malcolm Martin and Gaynor Dowling first started working together, they each brought specific and complementary skills to the table. Malcolm was fine-art trained and had made scu

‘We have only ever lived in old houses,’ says Ruth Taylor, explaining the move from National Trust property Hinton Ampner, which came with her husband James's job as an estate manager, to the Wiltshire cottage that is now their home. ‘While it was fu

‘As a child, when I pictured my perfect house, this was it exactly. It felt so familiar, with the wisteria growing over the pretty porch and covering the red brick façade, that I felt at home the minute I walked in,’ says Jojo Humes, recalling the fi

History is woven into the ancient Cotswolds village of Broadway, where a settlement is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. Later, the region's thriving wool and cloth industry brought great wealth to its merchants, who built their houses either si

In recent years, shopping for antiques has undergone extraordinary change. One of the few upsides of the pandemic was the way in which digital platforms took off as a viable way for dealers to trade. While this has certainly opened up the world of an

Early oak furniture was made entirely by hand, so no two pieces were exactly alike. Various woods were used, especially walnut in the later 17th century, but oak predominated. Decoration was carved, not added as a veneer. Artisans used a range of sty

Ogilby invented the 17th-century equivalent of sat nav,’ explains antique map specialist Tim Bryars. ‘We call them strip maps because they follow the route of individual roads. There are compass roses for reference, but the maps don't run north to so

Many years ago, we bought an 1890s house and decided to furnish it in accordance with the Aesthetic Movement principles of the late 19th century. We then transferred much of that approach to a house in the Cotswolds that has since become Yarn's headq

This Month: Typewriters In 1952, to celebrate the completion of the first draft of Casino Royale, Ian Fleming bought himself a Quiet De Luxe Portable typewriter from the Royal Typewriter Company of Hartford, Connecticut. First introduced in 1947, Roy

Estimate £10,000–£20,000 Sold £73,080 A sedan chair, used to transport a celebrated early 17th-century Chinese writer, sold for a top price at Woolley & Wallis. It is a perfect example of how a rare and somewhat quirky piece of furniture can quickly

Growing up, I'd always enjoyed art and it was on my radar for a potential career after doing an English and Theatre Studies degree. I sent CVs to Sotheby's, Christie's, Bonhams and Phillips, and I started as a warehouse porter at Sotheby's in the sum

Has your eye ever been drawn to a jug in a mottled, iridescent rose-pink glaze, framing a simple printed image of a sailing ship, or an imposing iron bridge? Have you ever been intrigued by a bowl embellished with erratic lavender marbling? Or entert

Homemade salted-chocolate cookies, fluffy robes, and books penned by local authors await in The Crown Inn's five bedrooms. It's certainly not your usual ‘pub with rooms’ – as one glance around the Rapture & Wright-embellished interiors, accented with

27th Derry Vintage Flea, St Augustine's Church Hall, 8 Palace Street, Londonderry, BT48 6PS. 07798 938550 27th Ormeau Road Antique, Art, Vintage, Retro & Collectables Fair, Cooke Church, 216 Ormeau Road, Belfast, BT7 2FY. waringfield.com 3rd Vintage

Maastrichtenaars have a saying that ‘life is good in Maastricht’ – and the small city, in the region of Limburg in the south east of the Netherlands, has a laidback, unrushed vibe that suggests this is true. At Maastricht's heart flows the river Maas

Coming from a family of vintage and antiques dealers, carpenters, and decorators, Samaya learned early the value of ‘old things’ and how a room or space can be changed by the use of objects and colour. She later developed a love of vintage textiles a

Art appreciation is an innately personal thing – our reaction comes from within – yet with a little additional knowledge you can hone this sense further. The UK is awash with excellent, specialist-led courses, each providing exhilarating insights tha