Collecting antique luggage

A fleet of vintage trams and buses take ...

From humble, hardworking beginnings to stylish staples in modern homes, vintage and antique baskets endure for their beauty and craftsmanship, as Alice Roberton explains

WELL-WORN, FADED AND IMPERFECT. GO BACK IN TIME TO FURNISH YOUR HOME WITH PIECES THAT TELL A STORY, SAYS TALLULAH RUSHAYA

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

Marie Antoinette’s passion for furniture and genius for bagatelles, however evanescent their purpose, filled the French royal palaces with beauty and charm, as Matthew Dennison reveals

I can just remember trolleybuses as our last service trundled down the tracks in the autumn of 1966. My grandfather called them “trackless” buses as he remembered the old tramcar “rattlers”. This love