A fortuitous meeting in an antiques shop on a winter day led to the perfect property for house-hunter and interior designer Martin Wharton

The Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London EC2

Few dining experiences involve a Damien Hirst butterfly winking at you from across the room. At The Gunton Arms, it’s in good company, sharing the walls with works by the likes of Tracey Emin, Lucian

Austenland – is there such a place? If so, it’s to be found in drawing rooms and parlours, not in sweeping vistas. So it’s appropriate that the Hampshire village of Chawton, Jane Austen’s home for the

Still Life Flowers in a Jug at Charleston, ...

Between a Constable resonating with Nature and a Castiglione blaring with turbulence, a picture by Algernon Newton captured the quietude of absolute stillness