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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
Piero Portaluppi took over his forebear’s Milan flat – and his ancient marbles
Author: Christopher Garis
Photographer: Giulio Ghirardi
‘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
Author: Will Fisher
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
Author: Elly Parsons
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
Author: Rebecca Swirsky
Photographer: Erdem Moralıoğlu
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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
Author: Donna Salek
Secrets of a salvage yard
Behind the scenes at Lassco Three Pigeons salvage yard in Oxfordshire
Author: Alice Inggs
Photographer: Alice Inggs
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
Author: Anderson Cooper
Photographer: Annie Schlechter
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
Author: Marie-France Boyer
Photographer: Ivan Terestchenko