Claudia Savage Gore feels a chill around the kitchen island

Modern office furniture can now happily sit alongside Queen Anne walnut

A lasting love-affair with Chartreuse

Empty shelves need not mean dreary eating

Calmly brilliant cooking rescues a vogueish restaurant full of underwhelming art

Thomas Woodham-Smith discovers the joys of gardenalia

Patrick Galbraith salutes the perfection of “imperfect” dogs

This wine is ready to drink but can readily be put down to hibernate for another half decade before being savoured by the Shepherd Market salonnières

Lisa Hilton enjoys a Thai feast that shows that fiery and exotic has now become mainstream

Dried flowers are back in vogue, says Hephzibah Anderson