Complete restoration breathes new life into a worn oil lamp, restoring its original beauty and functionality. Rust is ...

How to revive an 18th-century upstate farmhouse without resorting to cliché? By pretending a made-up person lives there too.

Old World Maximalism is back for 2025, but it’s less glossy glam and more heirloom elegance. According to 1stDibs’ Designer ...

It was around a century ago, around 1929, two pioneers and friends who shared the same passion for art, design and ...

If, like Thomas Dane above, you're after a vintage Anglepoise lamp, perhaps to upcycle and re-lacquer or if you simply prefer a few characterful scratches and dents here and there, then eBay or Etsy ...

(Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's) Frank Everett, the Vice Chairman of Sotheby's Jewelry, says, “Antique and vintage pieces—antique jewelry by definition, is 100 years or ...

But none of this rich history was discovered when it made an appearance on the 1970s BBC antique series, Going for a Song. A British couple took it on the series (originally presented by Max ...

A vase initially dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as a "very clever reproduction" fetched an eye-watering £53million after languishing in an attic for four decades. Back in the 1970s ...

Vogue’s guide to the best vintage clothing stores in Edinburgh is part of our directory of the very best vintage around the world, curated by editors from all over. Whether you’re travelling and ...

Like other budget alarms, it brightens in ten gradual stages over half an hour, but the Lumie Sunrise also offers coloured mood lighting, which I tend to put on as soon as I get home to make the ...

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A bronze statue valued on Antiques Roadshow went on to make millions more than predicted. Bought for $100 – around £80 – in a Missouri garage sale 20 years ago, a Buddhist ornament of a deity ...