Furniture

The contents of the London home furnished by a renowned Christie’s auctioneer and a distinguished interior decorator emerged at Dreweatts (27/26% buyer’s premium) earlier this month.

In Matthew, the trade has lost a great spinner of yarns, his accounts of deals and encounters, of meals with the gypsies in Romania and bar room brawls have left many spellbound.

Working in St Martin’s Lane, London, from 1680 until his death in c.1705, the Flemish-born cabinetmaker Gerrit Jensen is often associated with marquetry furniture from the William and Mary period.

This George II Palladian giltwood looking glass sold for £17,000 (estimate £2000-3000) at Lawrences (25% buyer’s premium) in Crewkerne on June 17.

The great and the good of Rutland and its surrounding counties descended on the Rutland Hall Hotel for three days of fine art, antiques and design.

Exhibitors selling to other traders, alongside decorators and private buyers, is a key feature of The Decorative Fair in Battersea.

A mirror for an East End brewery set a new record at £33,000 as the breweriana collecting market matures

The two opening lots of Chorley’s Modern Art & Design sale on June 2 were a walnut and ebony secretaire cabinet and a dresser designed and made by Arts & Crafts titan Sidney Barnsley (1865-1926).

West Sussex firm has made the trunks something of a speciality after four five-figure sales in a decade

Many of the Austrian designer Gustav Gurschner’s works of art were driven by the new possibilities provided by electricity.

Government plans for new fire safety regulations could simplify the rules for the resale of second-hand and vintage upholstered furniture in the UK.

Furnishings and personal items from Rydal Mount, the final home of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, will be offered at auction this month.

A silver and horn casket made for Queen Victoria but given to King Edward VII is offered by Mark Goodger Antiques at the Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair from June 12-14.

ATG chats to David Harvey from Oxfordshire dealership WR Harvey to discuss the firm’s 75 years in the furniture business, as well as his diamond jubilee exhibition, Marquetry to Metamorphic, which runs until June 13