Amanda Baillieu, a former editor of Building Design and the RIBA Journal, is the founder of Archiboo.
After my mother died last year my sister and I sold almost all the paintings, drawings and prints that she and my stepfather, an art dealer, had amassed over fifty years. One of the eight hundred items loaded onto a van was a youthful portrait of my grandmother, the writer and journalist Mollie Panter-Downes.
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