New York vies with London for nineteenth- and twentieth-century decorative arts sales, but Chicago is coming on quickly

A survey of the decorative arts market

Many have private museums, serve as trustees and lend to public museums

Yet the EU's share of the market is steadily declining and the US may already have lost its lead

Established artists first to sell as collectors take their time over emerging talents

Latin American collectors moved outside traditional comfort zones

“We meet a broader range of collectors here”

Most of the buyers were American private collectors and large-scale installation works were popular

Works on paper did well at this major event

Contemporary art collectors are coming to Southeast Asian art. Hollywood’s fascination with Buddhism is also a trigger

The difference between Japanese and European taste in the field of Japanese art

As other items become inaccessible to some collectors, many in the middle market have turned to textiles

And bounty of decorative arts including Chinese porcelain and Mendini furniture

Picasso for the blind at Wildenstein and a bevy of Latin American paintings exhibitions

Rising prices and increasing prestige for certain artists as collectors awake to Modernism’s sleepers

With American classical furniture and decorative arts in close second place

Impressionist painters on the Seine at Wildenstein, the Gilded Age glows at Vance Jordan, exoticism at Mark Murray plus fine furniture and Picasso’s lino cuts

Twentieth-century decorative arts sales confirm prize prices for iconic furnishinings

Contemporary decorative arts from $68,000 fibre arts to $100,000 glass sculpture

Third biannual of strongly supported contemporary decorative arts