A few of my favourite things

1. When you are away a lot travelling with work, you need a reliable way of waking you up. I bought this portable alarm clock from the Hermès shop in Harrods for my wife Bettina years ago, but appropr

Chef and restaurateur Jackson Boxer gives us an insight into his favourite things

IF you constantly flit between town and country, ...

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers

MY FIRST LONDON HOME

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight