A view to the Sussex future
UK: WITH the trade’s rumour mill in overdrive over the possible closure of Sotheby’s Billingshurst, the decision by a West Sussex businessman to open a new auction house Latimers (15 per cent buyer’s premium) in Horsham, barely 10 miles away from Summers Place, could well prove to be timely.
In terms of pictures, Latimers’ inaugural sale on December 13-14 was relatively low-key, but it did …