James nicholls

1. When you are away a lot travelling with work, you need a reliable way of waking you up. I bought this portable alarm clock from the Hermès shop in Harrods for my wife Bettina years ago, but appropr

I loved Martin Buckley’s piece about his Mamod Roadster (Backfire, July). Martin is always my go-to when I get a new magazine delivered, but enough sycophancy… It rang a bell with me when Martin menti

Forever car, forever memories. ‘This car is ...

With its removable blue police light mounted Starsky & Hutch-style on the roof and fake Italian police decals on the doors and bonnet, Lorenzo Wojtanowski’s green, left-hand-drive 1969 Alfa Romeo Giul

Classic values & essential buying advice

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers