NONE of his own concoctions, trinkets, harmonisers or whirring machines could save Hans Rex last week, but nor did modern medicine.

Sydney's eastern suburbs this weekend will be aglitter with antique and designer furniture, sculpture, porcelain, glass and silver, with several auctioneers airing their wares. And among the small fry is a collection of British bobbies' truncheons and trayfuls of trinkets you would normally expect to find at London's Portobello Road..read more

hit This girlie jewel of a store with its soothing pastel flowers and trinkets is just the thing when shopping fatigue sets in. Guests were offered a voucher towards one of the label's gorgeous silk dresses or camisoles, which hit the spot as sweetly as the champagne. And the courtyard..read more

Melbourne's jewellers are just as inspired by skyscrapers as they are by trinkets. Claire Halliday talks architecture with jewellers.

IT was quite the worst thing that could have happened on the first weekend of Newcastle's Mall Market in mid August, a capacity crowd of 20,000.