London's Grafton Street does not end where, on first glance, it appears to; instead it doglegs to the right for two short blocks. And there, on the second of the two blocks and just a few yards away ...

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“Most of the antiques sold in London are English,” says Alexander di Carcaci, a soigné Sicilian duke, A-list antiques consultant, and newly minted shopkeeper. Not so at the 19th-century Chelsea ...

In early June, heartily sick of this wet and windy summer in England, I signed off an email to a friend in Geneva with a valedictory whinge about the weather. His reply came like a ray of sunshine ...