Dealer Joel Chen gives a tour of his collection ahead of Christie’s auction – video

Furniture and decorative arts dealer Joel Chen has been in the antiques business for 40 years. He started out with a $6000 loan but, after branching out from his initial focus on Chinese works of art, he expanded to a point where he now runs a 30,000 sq ft showroom in Los Angeles, offering everything from archaic bronzes to contemporary lighting.

Chen, who grew up in colonial Hong Kong but was educated in the UK, has now consigned a selection of…

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