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Why LOEWE decided to reimagine the teapot, 25 great designs over
Loewe has commissioned 25 world-leading artists to design a teapot, in time for Salone del Mobile.
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A remarkable $100 million numismatic collection reappears after being buried for more than 50 years
A collector hid his treasure from the Nazis, his widow kept it secret for decades, but now Roman aurei, Greek staters and British pounds so rare that some have never been sold at public auction have resurfaced and will go under the hammer.
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Go Dutch: Understanding the Duke of Wellington’s passion for Dutch art and how to view his collection
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was a terrible Prime Minister, but made up for it by being a sophisticated collector.
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Historic England acquires 8,000-strong collection of early landscape photographs
Janette Rosing's collection of 19th- and early-20th-century photographs is ‘of national significance’ says Historic England.
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When London was beginning to establish itself as modern cultural powerhouse: The 1980s according to David Bailey
In his new book ‘Eighties Bailey’, ‘era-defining’ photographer David Bailey explores a time when London and the UK were at the centre of the fashion, art and publishing worlds.
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This rare Picasso lithograph could be yours for £60,000
Picasso's 'David and Bathsheba' — printed on rare Chinese silk paper and intertwined with the artist's infamous and complicated love life — has come up for sale.
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Five of the National Trust's most outstanding paintings, as chosen by the curators who care for the charity’s world-class collection
As The National Trust celebrates its 130th anniversary, we asked five of their curators to choose a key artwork from the charity's huge collection.
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The genius inventors who created the world's most important clocks
Early clocks had variable hours, but even in the golden age of British horology, when Thomas Tompion made his masterpieces, a man relying on public timepieces could end his walk earlier than he had started. Huon Mallalieu traces the evolution of British clock-making.
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The art and life of Pattie Boyd, the woman in the centre of the love triangle between Eric Clapton and a Beatle, has come up for auction
Pattie Boyd was the girlfriend of two of the great figures in rock music in the 1960s and 1970s — and Christie's are holding a sale of her memorabilia.
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The 102-year-old, the armed robbers and the 'blazing' Picasso which helped Sotheby's sell $1 billion of art in a month
November's major auctions witnessed some truly extraordinary sales — not least thanks to the sale of the collection of Emily Fisher Landau. Huon Mallalieu takes a look.
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In Focus: The billion-dollar art collection of Microsoft's co-founder, and what happened when it went under the hammer
Huon Mallalieu takes a look at the extraordinary paintings collected by Paul Allen over a lifetime of considered art appreciation.
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The furniture which John Fowler picked out for his own home is going up for sale in December
John Fowler, the iconic decorator who moved the needle of British interior design as a co-founder of Colefax & Fowler, chose exquisite pieces for his own home — and dozens of them are now up for sale.
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In Focus: The £20 million Michelangelo sketch that's one of just 10 in private hands
Business was booming in the world capital of drawing, headed by the sale of a Michelangelo. Huon Mallalieu takes a look.
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My favourite painting: Ronnie Archer-Morgan
The Antiques Roadshow expert picks A Muse by Cosimo Tura.
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In Focus: The magic carpet that flew at auction, and the enormous 31ft masterpiece showcasing 18th century fake news
A ‘polonaise’ carpet once owned by Rothschilds is one of the outstanding lots at Christie’s, as a distinguished auctioneer bows out. Huon Mallalieu reports.
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In Focus: The fakes that became worth more than the originals — and how they made Meissen's name
Huon Mallalieu tells the tale of an 18th century fraud perpetrated on the ceramic-loving public
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In Focus: The Hamilton Aphrodite, 'the finest ancient sculpture ever to have resided in Scotland', and how it smashed its £3 million auction estimate
Huon Mallalieu reports back on the sale of The Hamilton Aphrodite, and a number of other striking pieces which obliterated their estimates.
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The tiny wooden chest handed down through the generations that turned out to be worth over £1 million
Huon Mallalieu reports on an extraordinary — and record-breaking — auction of a chest roughly the size of a small loaf of bread which generated a huge sale for Lyon & Turnbull.
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In Focus: The £16,500 book that's a perfect 1:1 scale reproduction of the Sistine Chapel frescoes
Michaelangelo's great masterpiece, the frescoes that adorn the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, has been reproduced in a quite extraordinary volume of books. Annunciata Elwes takes a look.
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In Focus: A photographer's magical celebration of the farmers of Yorkshire
Photographer Valerie Mather has chronicled the lives of farmers in her award-winning images, which are now collected together together in a handsome book: Yorkshire Born & Bred: Farming Life.
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In Focus: The dusty old drawing set to make £200 at auction... and how it eventually sold for £400,000
Huon Mallalieu tells the tale of an auction which went haywire for a forgotten drawing which turned out to have an astonishing story.
