Furniture

Having missed its usual August event while the venue was refurbished, The Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair returns for the second time this year to Westonbirt School.

This English mahogany hall bench dating from the first quarter of the 19th century sailed well above estimate at a sale in New Milford, Connecticut.

So-called no’oanga stools from Rurutu Island, the northernmost island of the Austral archipelago in Polynesia, are distinct in their deep seats and solid curving legs terminating in button-like feet.

Bidder was determined to secure items from their old house

Gillows was one of the few English cabinetmaking firms to regularly mark its furniture. It is estimated that the Gillows Lancaster stamp appears on roughly a third of the pieces that left its workshops.

Former LAPADA member, furniture dealer Nimbus Antiques in north Derbyshire, is closing and plans a retirement auction at local saleroom Bamfords.

After 60 years on Broadway, Hyde Park Antiques is closing its gallery and holding a stock clearance sale at Sotheby’s.

The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park is celebrating 40 years in business and the autumn edition on September 30 to October 5, is expected to attract a star-studded crowd as usual.

Portrait of first governor of Western Australia stands out in a 745-lot auction offering colonial-era items

Who best to ask about how the fair has evolved than Wakelin & Linfield, stalwarts since the very first?