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A brass-inlaid rosewood table, three of four Seasons bursting with colour and a rare pair of powder-blue vases should draw every eye at the forthcoming Decorative Art Fair in London

I’m just back from a motorcycle ride: eight days, 2000 miles from Copenhagen to Norway’s North Cape, the place they call ‘the end of the world’, inset, below. The Arctic Rally was the latest adventure

PAD returns to London this month with an exciting mix of 20th-century and contemporary design pieces, including bronze lights, sculptural vessels and a collection of tactile chairs

Heritage houses pulled out all the stops for this year’s round of shows, where palatial locations provided the backdrops for cinematic sartorial displays