Homes & Antiques

Homes & Antiques is the magazine for people who love great design and beautiful objects from every era, providing a unique mix of the very best of the old with the very best of the new. That's why, as well as being the official magazine of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, every issue delivers an inspirational blend of heritage and lifestyle.

Home & Antiques

Editor’s Letter

PIECES THAT CAUGHT MY EYE

June • Key exhibitions including Stanley Spencer and Paula Rego, the Art & Antiques Fair at Olympia, an Interiors sale at Dreweatts, plus silver rose bowls

Behind the Scenes AT THE ROYAL COLLECTION • Caroline de Guitaut, Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art, tells Janet Gleeson about preparations for the Platinum Jubilee

STYLE NOW • Our monthly guide to DECORATIVE accessories, unique ANTIQUES and beautiful textiles that will add CHARACTER and colour to your home

PERSIAN PAINTINGS • Behnaz Atighi Moghaddam, Christie’s

RETROVATION • Dawn and Steve Diggines run Retrovation from a barn in Hertfordshire, selling their distinctive and wide-ranging inventory of decorative antiques, vintage luggage, curious objects and brown furniture…

EAST ANGLIAN ART

Cabinet of Curiosities • This Month: Coronation Memorabilia

A Lasting Legacy • Josiah Wedgwood’s tireless commitment to improvements in pottery, the local economy and social welfare had enduring effects in Staffordshire and beyond, says Willa Latham

ANN CARRINGTON • Meet the award-winning artist repurposing antique buttons, pearls, coins and cutlery into showstopping works of art, fit for a queen

LIVING WITH ANTIQUES • Four small but perfectly proportioned homes, from an interior designer’s industrial-style mews conversion, to a pretty Tudor cottage full of character

French Dressing • Interior designer Sophie Rowell has fashioned a neglected Georgian townhouse, with views across the Channel, into a family home that blends English charm with continental chic

Period CHARM • Rebecca and Michael Newman wanted a modern townhouse, but fell in love with this rose-covered, 16th-century historic cottage in a Sussex village. They then filled the interiors with family heirlooms, classic finds and contemporary artworks

Salvaged & stylish • Interior designer Paula Barnes employed her flair for rescuing and repurposing antique and vintage finds in her latest project: a renovated Victorian mews and garden store

Refined style • Carefully chosen antiques, period details and a pared-back palette set the tone for this 19th-century brick-and-flint cottage in Norfolk

ANTIQUES & COLLECTING • Celebrating FIFTIES DESIGN, collecting VINTAGE POSTCARDS, the story of FORTNUM & MASON, plus restoring FLOORBOARDS

And the bride wore white • Queen Victoria’s wedding dress set a new trend for white gowns and was to have a lasting influence in the face of changing fashions, finds Celia Rufey

ASK AN EXPERT • Our team answer your valuation and restoration questions... if you have a query, email us at homesandantiques@immediate.co.uk

THE FABULOUS FIFTIES • As The Queen celebrates her Jubilee, we take a look back at British design in the early 1950s, when she acceded the throne.

Meanwhile elsewhere...

STAR SALES • A rare ‘Roly Poly’ Steiff bear, a Minton majolica matchbox and more... Caroline Wheater selects her highlights from recent auctions

PICTURE PERFECT • Whether written as love notes, letters home from the front line, or greetings from the seaside, postcards offer us a tangible link to the past. Emma Longstaff explores their fascinating history

A CURIOUS CROSSOVER

CENSORED AT THE SEASIDE

RESTORE & RENOVATE • WOODEN FLOORING advice, beehive DOOR...