Natural Textures is the Mediterranean house, gathered: rattan woven into baskets, linen washed soft, clay turned in Italian workshops, alabaster cut from Tuscan stone, olives pressed for the skin as readily as for the table.

A way of living shows in what a house keeps. The rattan runs from Tuscan market baskets to a 1960s Italian colander and a set of 1970s wall trays — made to be carried, filled and used. The linen spans washed Feelum table settings and antique French sheets still carrying the monograms of the households that owned them. The ceramics are Laveno, Fontebasso, Schönwald: stoneware and porcelain built for daily service, alongside a terracotta amphora and a 19th-century glazed preserving pot.

Mother-of-pearl and silver-plate serving pieces sit beside alabaster trays and soap dishes, cool to the touch and quietly substantial. Rowse's Oliveta skincare closes the circle — olive seed and olive oil, the same groves, worked for the body.

These are the objects of long lunches and cool rooms, of a table laid without ceremony and a shelf that fills over years. Most of it is pre-loved. All of it is European. Every piece carries the marks of the hand that made it and the years it has already served.