A successful publicity campaign ensures a masterpiece by Titian will remain on public display in the UK. Diana And Actaeon, one of a pair of Titians being sold by the Duke of Sutherland, (whose assets are said to be worth around £230m) had been on ...

Arnold Bennett's beloved Potteries still deserve the name, but the blow to Wedgwood is another crack – and a serious one – in a craft tradition which goes back more than 300 years. "It's the third really famous brand to go into administration ...

This morning, I was about to eat my breakfast cereal from a robust, plain blue bowl, a beautifully made and knowingly modest design , as it happens created in 1952 for the Finnish company Iittala by Kaj Franck . And then I heard on the radio that ...