

Ring the bells
When we think about times past, we often think people didn't have much colour - perhaps because pictures are black and white, and many...


Tea with Marie Antoinette
It is summer here and we are finally having some freedom again, so I am enjoying the rare opportunity to go places. I have been visiting...


Inspired by the Muses
When in the late 18th and early 19th Century excavations in Southern Italy, Greece and Turkey started to reveal the long forgotten...


Under the Bells of Bow
Last month I wrote in Homes & Antiques about the Chelsea factory, and this month I am moving across London to Bow, its sister factory...