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.

Homes & Antiques

Welcome • Tell us what inspires you in this issue of Vintage Living. Tag @homes_antiques on Instagram or use the email address below

Flower Power • Nikki Tibbles’ Sussex home blends decorative antiques with 20th-century design to create a chic, flower-filled country retreat

CONSTANCE SPRY'S MANTEL VASE • Designed in the 1930s for Fulham Pottery, the elegant Spry vase is perfectly sculpted for the task of flower arranging, but also stunning as a standalone piece. We find out more about this timeless icon…

TIMELINE: VASES THAT WERE MADE WITH FLOWERS IN MIND

3 ways to style

HOW TO FILL A MANTEL VASE • Stylist and author Selina Lake shows us how to create this stunning display in a Spry vase

Feeling Spry • Get your blooms in order, just like Constance, with a beautiful mantel vase

Dressed to IMPRESS • The interior of Susie Nelson’s listed home in Rye, East Sussex, is much like the vintage clothes and accessories she deals in – graceful and timeless

FINELY CRAFTED • Marry vintage design classics with timeless pieces of furniture for a look like Susie’s

Restored to glory • Sheila Wallace is passionate about restoring period properties and creating light, bright interiors filled with upcycled furniture and vintage treasures

10 WAYS TO Decorate with SALVAGE • Salvaged finds can create a look that’s both sustainable and stylish. Here, Katherine Sorrell and Poppy Benner show you how to incorporate patinated pieces in your interiors

SALVAGED LIGHT FITTINGS • Salvaged lighting comes in a variety of guises – from edgy industrial to highly decorative – and adds an instant injection of soul

HOW TO SHOP for salvage • Adam Hills, co-founder of reclamation and re-use experts Retrouvius, gives his insight into buying salvaged furniture, accessories and material

Vintage Globes • Visually striking and an elegant addition to any home, these beautiful objects are the ultimate conversation starter…

STARTING POINT: AFFORDABLE VINTAGE GLOBES

Crafted in Colour • Kaffe Fassett’s career as a textile designer is stitched into his Victorian house in Hastings, which – as you’d expect – is filled with riotous colour and pattern

Gilt Mirrors • Boost natural light and add a sense of opulence with one of these gilty pleasures

The charm of CHINTZ • As maximalism returns, vintage chintz is making a comeback. Originating in India, and sparking a European frenzy in the 17th century, chintz has come to epitomise the English country house style. Rosanna Morris traces the fabric’s rich history

DESIGNER PROFILE: Luke Edward Hall • The artist and designer on his love of chintz

BUYER'S GUIDE • Antiques dealer and interior designer, Jack Brister of Tradchap in Somerset, on buying vintage chintz

Attention to DETAIL • A lifelong love of Palladian architecture led Will Fisher and his wife Charlotte on a painstaking journey to create a home that’s both understated and elegant

CHINESE GINGER JARS • These evocatively Eastern pieces add symmetry and elegance, but how and why did they become a staple feature of the English country house style? The answer is in the quality…

Spice up your decor • Vintage and contemporary jars to add a decorative touch

BUYING ADVICE: SHOPPING FOR CHINESE GINGER JARS

A life's work • Katie O’Sullivan’s talent as an equestrian artist is...