Otherwise the Wandworth house's unique fretwork decoration could be lost

1815 Wandsworth villa with unique wooden fretwork interior

Investigations of domestic doings down the ages

For the collector who has everything

“Dealers must overcome the interior decorator mentality”

Iconic interiors at Gagosian, pucker and slide at Mummery, some great British grub at Holdsworth, painterly lavatory walls at Anthony Reynolds, strange girlish doodles at Cabinet, while Vic Reeves turns artist at Percy Miller

Once upon a time, connoisseur dealers or even museum curators advised collectors what art to buy. Now the decorators hold sway, and at the Windsor sale a decorator’s pastiche pieces outsold real antiques

Praz bequeathed the entirety of his collection to the Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna, in the hope that his home would become a satellite of the museum