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Homes & Antiques - May 2021. Image: Jemma Watts

Explore our May issue

Vintage Market at the Mansion enjoys a gorgeous setting.

April 2021 calendar: antiques fairs and flea markets near you

An elegant tea party scene in a Georgian living room

Vintage and antique teapot guide: how to collect teapots and the history of tea drinking in Britain

Blue and white Chinese Ginger Jar

Discover the history of the Chinese ginger jar

Collecting Staffordshire Dog figurines. Image: Rachel Whiting

How to collect Staffordshire dogs

The Pink Gin parasol in waterproofed fabric, £1,850, Sunbeam Jackie

The best garden parasols for 2021 and how to buy an antique version

The best picnic accessories for summer 2021. Image: Polly Wreford

The best picnic hampers and accessories for spring 2021

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Shelf life: meet the artists inspired by antiques

Where to shop for antiques

The best ateliers & antiques shops online

The best online antiques shops and ateliers

Isobel at The Hoarding Hare specialises in decorative vintage homewares.

How to buy antiques on Instagram

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The best antiques fairs to have on your radar

The best streets in Britain for antiques shopping

Britain's best antiques shopping streets

Celebrate National Gardening Week

A gardener at Chatsworth planting and maintaining the gardens

A day in the life of a Chatsworth gardener

The atmospheric view of the Victorian-style parterre with tall sentinel yews at Lanhydrock, Cornwall.

British stately homes with gardens to visit right now

The UK's best arboretums

The top 9 arboretums to visit this spring

Heritage kitchen inspiration

Retrouvius - The Old Rectory Kitchen with an Aga

10 ways to mix old and new in the kitchen

Collection of ceramics displayed on a kitchen dresser

The history of the dresser

Everhot 110i in Cream, £8,925, Everhot.

The best range cookers of 2021

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How to create an inviting country kitchen

Collecting guides

Multi-gem set pendant ‘Regard’ necklace sold for £2,500 at Lyon & Turnbull.

How to buy and collect antique acrostic jewellery

Antique silver napkin rings on white frilly napkins

Collecting Guides

Antique napkin rings: how to collect and where to buy

A Mauchline tartanware photo album c1890 made £475 at Lyon & Turnbull in 2019

Luke Honey’s Cabinet of Curiosities: tartanware

Real homes

The car on the wall is from an old fairground dodgem ride. The boxes with long handles are chapel collection boxes. Image: Grant Scott.

Real homes Inside Drew Pritchard's converted Methodist chapel

The east London home of Kentaro Poteliakhoff

Play house: inside Kentaro Poteliakhoff’s joyful Victorian home

The sitting room features an overmantel mirror that the couple bought at an auction in Plymouth. The inherited club chair has a throw from the Biggest Blanket Company. An Edwardian brass coal box and fender complements the unusual Regency fire guard

A perfect find: antiques dealers Jo and Michael Saffell’s Bath home

Green accents pop against the neutral palette of the recently renovated living room. The candle tree, bought from a local antiques centre, sits on an antique Indian trunk right In the hallway hangs a vintage clock.’We love the real rust and ware the clock’s gathered over its lifetime,’ says Sam

Christmas in the countryside with Sam Wilson

The UK's best arboretums

The best arboretums to visit this spring

Antiques news

The main dining room at Aynhoe Park © Dreweatts

The eclectic contents of Aynhoe Park to be sold at auction

Surgeon Beatty’s medicine chest is available via 2covet.com

6 antiques with a fascinating back story

Partnered content 2Covet

Rembrandt Van Rijn, Self-portrait, wearing a ruff and black hat, 1632, est £12-16 million ($15-20 million) -Photographer Antony Jones (2)

Why a Rembrandt self-portrait broke a world record

Decorating ideas

Victoria Street was built between 1829-34 as part of a series of improvements to Edinburgh’s Old Town. It replaced a steep, narrow lane called West Bow.

The UK’s best antiques shopping streets

As its name suggests, this ‘Bachelors Button’ design has a masculine feel and could bring a soft edge to a collection of ‘mantiques’. Here it brings contrast to decorative pieces with Morris & Co references and simplicity.

Brighten your home with William Morris prints

A living room by Penny Morrison shows how to mix print and pattern to great effect

Ways to mix and match pattern in your home

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