antiques

Tuscan escapades: Villa Coco, by Andrew Sean Greer, reviewed

13 June 2026 9:00 am

An American archivist, hired to catalogue an elderly baronessa’s antiques, finds himself drawn into increasingly absurd adventures in the Italian countryside

Twiggy photographed by Justin de Villeneuve in the Rainbow Room at Big Biba, early 1970s. [JUSTIN DE VILLENEUVE]

A short history of art deco – from high art to two-tone shoes, garden gates to Twiggy

1 December 2018 9:00 am

On 10 September 1973 the 1930s Kensington High Street department store formerly known as Derry & Toms reopened as Big…

Poems from Going for a Song

20 September 2014 9:00 am

An Anthology of Poems about Antiques, compiled and introduced by Bevis Hillier