These investment pieces from today’s top makers are exquisitely crafted, enduringly beautiful and designed to be loved for generations

In recent decades, perhaps no room has transformed in look and feel more than the dining room. Once a standalone stalwart of the family home, often formal in feel due to its separation from the cookin

Whether creating a classic or contemporary interior scheme, antiques are often mentioned by interior designers as an essential storytelling element. ‘Antiques help ground a room and give it an anchor.

If there was ever a definition of a comfortable seat, this 17th-century farmhouse nestled between Windermere and Kendal in the Lake District would be it. A patterned seat, a colourful seat, the interi

The current custodians of a Cotswolds manor have rekindled its centuries-old spirit, making a stylish and welcoming home

For antiques dealer Val Foster and her husband Philip, part of the attraction of moving south from Nottinghamshire some five years ago was the prospect of making a new home. ‘We’d found a property whi