Interior design
Owen Jones, a pioneer of 19th-century ornamentation
An incisive study of the influential designer responsible for the V&A’s ‘Oriental Court’ in the 1860s
Illustrator Pierre Le Tan's enormous collection to be sold by Sotheby's
Auction includes 40 drawings by Le Tan and over 500 eclectic lots from his Parisian apartment
National Trust needs £2m for Kenyan poet’s house
Otherwise the Wandworth house's unique fretwork decoration could be lost
Late Kenyan poet’s extraordinary house offered to National Trust
1815 Wandsworth villa with unique wooden fretwork interior
A clutch of books, generated by a V&A exhibition, on the use and function of fine and decorative art in the home
Investigations of domestic doings down the ages
A dealer is offering to mount high-tech plasma TVs in 19th- and 20th-century frames
For the collector who has everything
Veteran dealer, Richard Philp on why young collectors aren’t buying antiques
“Dealers must overcome the interior decorator mentality”
London contemporary galleries: Painting, painting everywhere
Iconic interiors at Gagosian, pucker and slide at Mummery, some great British grub at Holdsworth, painterly lavatory walls at Anthony Reynolds, strange girlish doodles at Cabinet, while Vic Reeves turns artist at Percy Miller
The Windsor sale: Stéphane Boudin and the rise and rise of the decorator
Once upon a time, connoisseur dealers or even museum curators advised collectors what art to buy. Now the decorators hold sway, and at the Windsor sale a decorator’s pastiche pieces outsold real antiques
Collection of interior design scholar Mario Praz reinstated to Palazzo Primoli apartment
Praz bequeathed the entirety of his collection to the Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna, in the hope that his home would become a satellite of the museum