WITH PRIVATE LIBRARIES EXPERIENCING A RENAISSANCE, ALEXANDRA GOSS EXPLORES HOW YOU CAN FURNISH YOUR HOME WITH BOOKS

There’s no shortage of great picks at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht, the Netherlands, including a Barbara Hepworth sculpture, a pastel portrait by Dora Maar and two sections of 4th-century Roman mosaics

Cultural Crusader

The acquisition of houses by the National Trust from the 1930s had less to do with the impoverishment of aristocratic families than the industrial wealth of bachelor donors, as Michael Hall reveals

Your indispensable guide to the capital

A terrace of purpose-built studio houses has artists at work within it once again. Jeremy Musson explores the history of these buildings and a modern connection with Florence