It started with just the one, which the food writer found at a flea market. Countless copper jelly moulds later, she still can’t shake her habit…

Rendered in exquisitely carved garnet, the oval profile of Augustus’s empress will remain forever pinned to Alessandra Di Castro’s lapel, she swears

For her One Lasting Thing, the artist considers an object which has been variously a raised bed, drying rack, sculpture showcase and cabinet of curiosities

British novelist Amy Key writes on the beauty and fragility of displaying one of her treasured possessions, a box of moss given to her by artist Anthea Hamilton

Our contributor thumbs an age-worn necklace and draws out its quiet power, meditating on the absences it contains

Writing has long been in our contributor’s blood, it would seem – a legacy she uncovers as she leafs through her great-grandmother’s lost children’s novel, a precious object that inscribes her family’s hidden past in white ink

There’s no more mystical totem of the chic, lacquer-lipped femme fatale than the champagne coupe. Ella Frears raises hers