Decorative arts
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These collectors agree that the market has risen so much as to make buying almost impossible
Artists and designers 100 years ago were united in their embrace of modernity
British and French authorities dismayed at disposals that they considered illegal
Pietro Accorsi's long wait to showcase his collection is over
“At least thirty collectors are spending $200,000-500,000 a year at auction” on this branch of the decorative arts
The museum and the Great Exhibition from which it derives are the subject of five new books
Abbot and Holder, Colnaghi, Maas Gallery, Lumley Cazalett Contemporary Applied Arts, Fine Art Society, David Black, Bloomsbury Workshop, Whitford Fine Art
With American classical furniture and decorative arts in close second place
Painting, design, and decorative arts from Colonial times until the Second World War
Director Cristina Aschengreen-Piacenti has pioneered the project, refusing to allow the residence of a great Anglo-Florentine collector to fade from memory
A true collectors’ market, with almost 100% demand
An exhibition of Sikh treasures casts new light upon the art of an Indian culture better known for its war-like tendencies
Fires at the Pitti Palace and Hampton Court have led to this survey of baroque sculptor, Grinling Gibbons
British architect, Christopher Seddon, is the project manager
Collectors from all over the world turned up with lots of money and confidence—and so did the British
Twentieth-century decorative arts sales confirm prize prices for iconic furnishinings
Contemporary decorative arts from $68,000 fibre arts to $100,000 glass sculpture
Golf is the new passion of millionaire who has sold Impressionists and French decorative art to the tune of $91.48 million since 1989
Once upon a time, connoisseur dealers or even museum curators advised collectors what art to buy. Now the decorators hold sway, and at the Windsor sale a decorator’s pastiche pieces outsold real antiques
The second of the four volume series on the furniture of the Pitti Palace makes its debut
Exhibition promises to be “the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Art Nouveau ever staged”
The 'futures' department aims at spotting the antiques of tomorrow
Designers Carl and Karin Larsson were creators of Swedish style, at present much featured in the glossies
A round-up of some recent books on porcelain, pottery and delftware
Affordable, good quality and diverse, it brings in all sorts
From gunmakers to silversmiths
Titus M. Eliëns, Marjan Groot and Frans Leidelmeijer, Dutch Decorative Arts, 1880-1940
Third biannual of strongly supported contemporary decorative arts
Timothy Schroder named curator for the collection, and will start work on the Somerset House displays