Coromandel collection’s 59 pieces, named after lacquerware she collected in 1910s, feature designs and gems echoing details and colours of adored items The late French fashion designer Gabrielle “Coco ...

Coromandel is a Chinese art form used to decorate furniture. The most commonly decorated pieces are screens, chests and occasional tables. The technique involves applying layers of wet clay to the ...

Like Byron Bay (long before it Byron Bay’d itself), The Coromandel was hippy central for New Zealand. And while most of the residents of the communes of the 1960s and 1970s have moved on, their spirit ...

"I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed,” Marco Polo said on his deathbed. He had, however, chronicled enough pearls and jewels from his travels to send European ...