For her One Lasting Thing, the artist considers an object which has been variously a raised bed, drying rack, sculpture showcase and cabinet of curiosities

British novelist Amy Key writes on the beauty and fragility of displaying one of her treasured possessions, a box of moss given to her by artist Anthea Hamilton

Our contributor thumbs an age-worn necklace and draws out its quiet power, meditating on the absences it contains

Writing has long been in our contributor’s blood, it would seem – a legacy she uncovers as she leafs through her great-grandmother’s lost children’s novel, a precious object that inscribes her family’s hidden past in white ink

There’s no more mystical totem of the chic, lacquer-lipped femme fatale than the champagne coupe. Ella Frears raises hers