Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler’s associate director Chloe Willis talks entertaining essentials

Slippers have made their way out of the bedroom and into the street, finds Simon Mills–although not without precedent or formalities

Best seat in the house?

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

Grandma’s engagement ring IN the pantheon of stories ...

Selina Gardner’s love of antiques began early, with childhood memories of rummaging in dusty second-hand shops, setting up a stall selling porcelain figures and old books outside her home at six years