Antique Guides

The Orkney Chair is probably one of the most iconic pieces of Scottish vernacular furniture. Now highly collectable (with examples at the Victoria & Albert Museum), Orkney chairs were originally made with a very practical design. The chair style that we know today was standardised in the mid-19th century by David Kirkness of Kirkwall. It is assumed…

We've put together a of answers to the most frequently asked questions we receive from dealers about trading after Brexit. This guide was created with help from DCMS and Gander & White, and is freely available to the trade.

One of my favourite categories of the rich and varied objets d’arts proffered by our members are the gadgets and gizmos that for want of a better word are often referred to as ‘toys for the boys’. Outdated and sexist? Possibly, as they are certainly as appealing to me as to anyone of the opposite…

With so much more time spent at home lately, squeezing our offices into our living rooms and even accommodating children’s pop-up classrooms, many of us have turned our attention to home improvements – whether that be a spot of DIY or a full edit of our décor and the art, furniture and decorative arts that…

Though it’s today one of the lesser-known ‘decorative arts’, the technique of pietra dura is highly prized and widely used, and can be found in settings ranging from antique jewellery boxes to the walls of the Taj Mahal.