Article: Favorite finds: English style means being witty; pretty and wise about making home a place of comfort and charm. We turned to the venerable English companies who know it best.

TIMELESS AS A COTTAGE GARDEN, and often just as flower-filled, English style is known for its easy elegance, the sort of offhand beauty that comes from a mix of antiques passed from generation to generation and fabrics in mellow tones, such as the linen used here for curtains and tablecloth. "Large Peonies," by Warner of London from Zoffany, reproduces an old print and is fashioned, as curtains in England traditionally are, with linings to stop the drafts. On the table, the newly made creamware dinner service, from Hartley Greens & Co. Leeds Pottery ($31 to $59), retains the simplicity of its eighteenth-century original. The glasses ($31 to $40) and amethyst decanter ...