Chess sets and backgammon boards are a familiar sight on drawing-room tables, but one expert Highland woodworker is refashioning their forms in beautiful new ways, writes Mary Miers

Toby Lorford was fizzing with passion and pride when I spoke to him about this collaboration, and that same vibrancy is palpable while looking at the collection. Delightfully eccentric and oh-so Engli

Westminster Hall’s 14th-century carved angels were the inspiration behind woodcarver William Barsley’s own celestial choir

Between a Constable resonating with Nature and a Castiglione blaring with turbulence, a picture by Algernon Newton captured the quietude of absolute stillness

The term ‘Merseyside’ was coined around the end of the 19th century. In the county reorganisation of 1974 it became the official name for the area that encompassed the boroughs of Birkenhead, Bootle,

I have long been an admirer of interior designer Beata Heuman’s creative and playful style, so news of a collaboration with luxury British paint brand Mylands immediately caught my attention. The resu