The fork in the road

Held in a deconsecrated chapel in the heart of Edinburgh, Lyon & Turnbull’s ‘Design Since 1860’ auction always offers a cornucopia of Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic Movement delights. At t

Gather your loved ones and create memories to last a lifetime

Settling a dispute with swords, pistols and, if legend is to be believed, sausages and guitars, has long been a matter of honour even among modern-day rock stars, discovers John F. Müller

David Downie explains why, for centuries, Paris has been a go-to destination for cuisine of all kinds

French artists have appropriated alfresco dining ever since Édouard Manet scandalised Paris with his Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe , yet many charming scenes were painted in Britain, too, and are worth rediscovering, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa