Warm glow
Inspired by mid-century design, the Hyde pendant features hand-spun metal shades in Butter Brass and Marmalade, £1,400, shown here with the Hyde table lamp in Juniper, £390, and wall light in Marmalade, £318, all David Hunt Lighting (01295 672628; www.davidhuntlighting.co.uk)
Switch up
The Invisible Lightswitch from Forbes & Lomax is designed to allow wallpaper or paint to show through: the 1 Gang Invisible Dolly switch with Brass toggle costs £54.56 (020-7738 0202; www.forbes andlomax.com)
Antique inspiration
The Ring table lamp, hand-turned in walnut, £780, is inspired by a 19th-century candlestick, shown with a 16in Cream card shade, £180, both from Julia Boston (020-7610 6783; www.juliaboston.com)
Art and crafty
From the Arts-and-Crafts Collection, inspired by the designs of the architect and designer William Arthur Smith Benson, the Venetia double-arm wall light in Antique Brass with Porcelain pleated silk shade costs £1,800 from Hector Finch (020-7731 8886; www.hectorfinch.com)
Red alert
The Roxy floor lamp is finished in hand-applied Red Gesso, £1,439, from Julian Chichester (020-7622 2928; www.julianchichester.com)
Take to the floor
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Put some graphite in your pencil
Once used for daubing sheep, graphite went on to become as valuable as gold and wrote Keswick's place in history. Harry Pearson inhales that freshly sharpened-pencil smell
Dulce et decorum est
Michael Sandle is the Wilfred Owen of art, with his deeply felt sense of the futility of violence. John McEwen traces the career of this extraordinary artist ahead of his 88th birthday
Heaven is a place on earth
For the women of the Bloomsbury group, their country gardens were places of refuge, reflection and inspiration, as well as a means of keeping loved ones close by, discovers Deborah Nicholls-Lee
A haunt of ancient peace - The gardens at Iford Manor, near Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire The home of the Cartwright-Hignett family
After recent renovations, this masterpiece of Harold Peto's garden-making must be counted one of the finest gardens in England
It's the plants, stupid
I WON my first prize for gardening when I was nine years old at prep school. My grandmother was delighted-it was she who had sent me the seeds of godetia, eschscholtzia and Virginia stock that secured my victory.
Pretty as a picture
The proliferation of honey-coloured stone cottages is part of what makes the Cotswolds so beguiling. Here, we pick some of our favourites currently on the market
How golden was my valley
These four magnificent Cotswold properties enjoy splendid views of hill and dale
Mere moth or merveille du jour?
Moths might live in the shadows of their more flamboyant butterfly counterparts, but some have equally artistic names, thanks to a 'golden' group, discovers Peter Marren
The magnificent seven
The Mars Badminton Horse Trials, the oldest competition of its kind in the world, celebrates its 75th anniversary this weekend. Kate Green chooses seven heroic winners in its history
Angels in the house
Winged creatures, robed figures and celestial bodies are under threat in a rural church. Jo Caird speaks to the conservators working to save northern Europe's most complete Romanesque wall paintings