One of the sillier ones was to party like it's 1499 and have a canopy or four-poster bed with insulated curtains. Hill said he couldn't sleep without air conditioning, which at the time I ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I’m looking for a four-poster bed. Most antique ones are too small for modern mattresses, so how do you ...