Decorative tiles have brought design, colour and character to our homes, and particularly fireplaces, for centuries. Alice Roberton looks at the enduring appeal of these antique treasures

Heather Nash’s Norfolk home is filled with warmth, ...

It’s out with winter blues and in with the blossoming prunus, unless it happens to be English pottery. Lucien de Guise finds out what Coalport brought to the tableware

Josiah Wedgwood’s creative spirit transformed British pottery, and his pursuit of beauty and quality still shapes generations of potters today

Once you have noticed the texture on a hand-thrown flowerpot, it’s impossible to use factory made again, says Tiffany Daneff, after a visit to Whichford Pottery in Warwickshire

After years in the doldrums, the tide may be finally changing for brown furniture, if last month’s sale of Michael Eaton’s collection is a sign of things to come