The rooms are filled with artisanal details: hand-carved wooden doors ... blending heirloom antiques with custom-designed furniture and textiles sourced from all over Mexico.

But a hand-built stone fortress that would look right at home in the French countryside ... Not your average throne room setup—this handcrafted chair beneath a carved cross embodies the castle builder ...

Within a few years, mahogany, with its outstanding qualities for furniture-making, was to be met with in many forms in every Englishman's home; feathers and ears of wheat, so often used by Hepplewhite ...

Finland has returned a ceremonial stool that was looted from what is now Benin by French forces more than a century ago, a ...

As a huge fan of the Helinox Chair Zero, an even more compact trail throne for those who like to keep the weight of their backpack as low as humanly possible, reviewing the Chair One (re ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

Delicately carved grapevines twist ... frames an inscription in French: a message left by the man who made it. Dated 1915, the engraving reveals the chair’s unlikely origin.

It was beneath the palace’s throne room that his team recently unearthed the rare stone slab carved with the likeness of King Ashurbanipal, as well as two Mesopotamian deities—Ashur ...

Also of note: tableware with the gravitas of fine art, lamps draped in men’s shirting, and the City’s chicest grocer unveils ...

Opulently accented with chandeliers, candelabras, paintings by Van Dyck and Canaletto, and exquisite English and French furniture ... closely will recognize the Throne Room, which served as ...