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Architect Piero Portaluppi’s remarkable stone collection

Genealogy met geology when the grandson of architect
Piero Portaluppi took over his forebear’s Milan flat – and his ancient marbles

‘The David Bowie of dealing’: Will Fisher waxes lyrical about his mentor Warner Dailey

As objects from his collection go up for auction, the Jamb founder traces a childhood spent in the antiques-world superstar’s Blackheath home

Our Love is History

Two million incredible historic images are stuffed inside Mary Evans Picture Library in London, a monument to one married couple’s passion for collecting

Sir John Soane’s newly reopened drawing room is a marvel of masonry

Following the painstaking restoration of Sir John Soane’s drawing office, a new generation of visitors get to tread where the apprentices once toiled. Here, Erdem Moralıoğlu and Rebecca Swirsky evoke the reality of life at the drafting tables 240 years ago
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Jewellery brand Alighieri launches a curated edit of antiques

Taking its inspiration from bygone eras, jewellery brand Alighieri has curated a selection of antiques for sale, with a new drop of seven curiosities launching on the new moon every month

Secrets of a salvage yard

Behind the scenes at Lassco Three Pigeons salvage yard in Oxfordshire

Anderson Cooper contemplates the objects in his late mother’s home

In her Manhattan home, amid painted chimney pieces, collaged royalty and boxed assemblages, Gloria Vanderbilt would restlessly redecorate and rearrange her mementoes

The Bukhara showroom of an Uzbek textile merchant

With its array of Zoroastrian motifs, Chinese porcelain and intricate muqarnas, this antique showroom is a microcosm of the Silk Road itself