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Trunks for books which could be placed on a table, showcasing the volumes inside, are among Louis Vuitton’s most popular and collectable early models.

On Friday, April 10, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $3216.87 / €2823.97 /£2455.63

The few surviving pieces of furniture designed by Archibald Knox were mainly produced at the Sunnyside Workshops in Douglas, founded by Knox with his friend and patron Wilson James Ashburner in 1899.

Ken Besford of Durham Promotions NE, organiser of the Great North Decorative Antique Fair, is heading down the straight for the spring edition (Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27) of the triannual event he launched last year at Newcastle Racecourse.

When Anthony Bernbaum curated the exhibition Archibald Knox, Beauty and Modernity, a Designer Ahead of his Time at the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair in 2014, he was working in investment banking.

Collection amassed by Christie’s veteran Hugo Morley-Fletcher includes ‘special group’ of porcelain

Paul Nash, looking back at the 1924-25 period when he taught design at the Royal College of Art, said: “I was fortunate in being there during an outbreak of talent and can remember at least eight men and women who have made names for themselves since then in a variety of different directions.”

A closer look at the post-war appreciation of the great designer including exhibitions and auction landmarks

One of perhaps only two known ruby red versions of the Whitefriars Banjo vase sold for £17,200 in Devon on April 9.

Our selection of lots from seven upcoming auctions

Ian McKay's colleagues Mark Bridge, Ivan Macquisten and Anne Crane remember the late columnist

A tribal art sale held by Lempertz (26/20% buyer’s premium) in Brussels earlier this year was led by an exceptional nkisi nkondi figure. Guided at €70,000-80,000, it hammered at €320,000 (£264,500).

Launched in 2019 as an annual event but biannual since 2022, such is its appeal to both dealers and visitors, the first of this year’s antiques and decorative fairs held in the Georgian interior of Enys House runs on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27.

Local tourist bodies believe that Knox can do for the Isle of Man what Mackintosh has done for Glasgow.

The Petersfield Antiques Fair is now in its 52nd year since the event’s dawn in the early 1970s.

A fine example of early 18th century Ottoman metalwork sold for many times its estimate at Stockholms Auktionsverk (20% buyer’s premium) on February 20.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

Book was published by champion of Swiss Calvinism four years before he became a Protestant martyr

Dr Stephen Martin first encountered Archibald Knox in a New York bookstore in 1990.

Created shortly after the 1830 Revolution, when Louis Philippe ruled as ‘king of the French’, the ‘Service de la Chevalerie’ was a great example of romantic historicism.