Flower power

In the past 40 years, ceramics has moved firmly into fine-art territory, opening the door for huge, flamboyant vessels and installations rich in personal expression and experimentation, as Corinne Julius discovers

Less hodgepodge, more harmonious composition: these distinctive decorating styles show how to assemble and arrange with cohesion and flair

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

Provenance is everything for potter Matthew Blakely. He sources his clay and rock from all over Britain and each of his unique stoneware pieces reflects where his materials come from

On the fringes of Ilkley Moor, Joanna Thompson has furnished her Georgian farmhouse in a rich patchwork of textures and patterns to offset the wildness of the surrounding landscape

Mark Hampshire and Keith Stephenson of iconic British homeware brand Mini Moderns show us around their beautiful railway carriage home in Dungeness