Gold phone returned to art deco bedroom after being saved from skip
(The Guardian Culture News)

Device is last surviving example of five commissioned by 1930s socialite for Eltham PalaceA gold telephone saved from a skip has returned to the art deco bedroom for which it was commissioned eight decades ago by the socialite Virginia Courtauld.English Heritage on Friday announced that it had been given a telephone that spoke volumes about the glamorous, over-the-top lifestyle of the inhabitants of Eltham Palace in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, south London. Continue reading...