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I’m in China this week, sourcing antiques and checking on the workshops which make our handcrafted ranges. It has been a rainy few days in Shanghai but good to catch up again with old friends and check on progress for our next shipment...

Florals needn’t be fusty and old-fashioned. Forget chintzy prints and boring pastels and go bold with blooms. Here are some of our favourite ideas from across the web. There’s nothing shy and retiring about this floral wallpaper! Go to the dark...

Since air travel became popular in the seventies, global chic has been a perennial trend. And the internet age means we can mix treasures picked up on our own travels with exotic furniture, accessories and art purchased from around the...

We can’t believe that Easter is here already. It doesn’t seem a moment since we were getting excited about Christmas and the Chinese New Year! But it does give us a great excuse (not that we need one) to plan...

It has taken a long, long time but our latest container from Beijing finally arrived this morning, chock full of antiques, elm furniture and accessories that I selected on my last visit to China. We managed to have the shipment load and...

As the days become longer, with the promise of sunshine to come, our thoughts turn to our homes. Specifically, how to bring some spring into our worn-out winter colour schemes. When it’s dark and cold, we want our homes to...

Today we welcome the Chinese New Year, and 2016 heralds the year of the monkey.The monkey is ninth of the twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac cycle. In Chinese astrology, as well as association with an animal, each year is...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ORIGINS OF CHINESE NEW YEAR It is unclear when the New Year celebrations in China actually started. There is debate between historians as to whether it was during the Shang Dynasty (1766 BC – 1122...

We’re getting ready to celebrate and so wish you a (slightly early) happy New Year! This is the first of three blog posts celebrating the traditional Chinese New Year. In this post, we highlight events happening up and down the...