The public apparition known as ‘Sir Roy Strong’ has been created partly by himself (his insistence on wearing those funny hats and drawling his exaggerated likes and dislikes on television) and partly ...

Textiles, from dress and furnishing fabrics to tapestries, seem to be the hot topic this summer, with a number of books on the subject. Now ACC have come up with Textile Design. This profusely ...

Martin Gayford feels that biographies generally fail to convey 'a sense of what it would be like to meet the subject face to face'. In his account of one of the most famous and intimately documented ...