So Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in October 1876, charting the latest instalment of the Holbein cult. He was renting a room in Isleworth, west London, still hoping for a religious career

The reinvention of this Edwardian terrace is a triumph in timelessness, where styles from different eras blend together beautifully

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

Exhibition of the week Lucian Freud: Drawing into ...

Reinventing a home that hasn’t been touched in 30 years is a big task, but designer Mark Howorth was up for the job and even managed to include the art gallery space the owners wanted

Originally built in 1703, as the London home of the Duke of Buckingham, Buckingham House was acquired by the newly married King George III in 1761, as an escape from the nearby St James’s Palace, the