The English House by Dan Cruikshank interior Hanging from a brass hook

Hanging from a brass hook

Each bustling scene is packed with information about life in Ancient Egypt

Your card games have never looked so beautiful

The Corinthian order was adopted by the Romans from the Greeks and held particular associations of beauty and love

A stack of 6 smoothly rounded and delightfully pastel-toned pebbles

The English House by Dan Cruikshank interior Hanging from a brass hookThis is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth century Pallant House in Chichester. It's the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitafields, built for a Huguenot silk weaver, ultimately a synagogue. Its also the story of among others a row of two up, two downs in Toxteth, a block of flats in Londons East End, and what Ideal Homes magazine described in 1926 as Britains first modern house in Northampton. Together these buildings reveal the ways