Guides Archive

Homes & Antiques Guide to Outdoor Sculpture

In conjunction with our partner Homes & Antiques, LAPADA is pleased to offer expert advice on buying and caring for outdoor sculpture by expert dealer and LAPADA member Alex Puddy of Architectural Heritage.

Mr Alex Puddy

ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE LTD.

LAPADA Guide to 20th Century Prints

All the major 20th century artists were committed printmakers, creating stand-alone artworks that were not copies of paintings.

Ofer Gildor

Gilden's Arts Gallery

LAPADA Guide to Staffordshire Figures

Staffordshire figures resonate with social history and have always held appeal. They are folk art: of the people for the people.

Mr Ben Tulk

Madelena Antiques & Collectables

LAPADA Guide to Antique Chandeliers

For centuries the chandelier has been the most iconic lighting form to grace our interiors, balancing a decorative and aesthetic function with practical illumination. From its beginnings it was associated with wealth and power and a burning symbol of success and social standing.

Mr Adrian Alan

Adrian Alan

Homes & Antiques Guide to Antique Beds

In conjunction with our partner Homes & Antiques, LAPADA is pleased to offer expert advice on buying an antique bed by expert dealer and LAPADA member Paul Beedham.

Mr Paul Beedham

Beedham Antiques Ltd.

LAPADA Guide to Buying Antiquities

The term 'antiquities' refers to artefacts from prehistory to roughly Medieval Period. The term is very broad and covers the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, ancient Egypt, ancient Near Eastern cultures and delves into prehistoric periods and Asian civilizations.

Christopher Martin

C.J. Martin (Coins) & Ancient Art Ltd

LAPADA Guide to Giltwood Furniture

R. W. Symonds, a renowned furniture historian, once pronounced that gilt gesso furniture was unparalleled: ‘It possessed a quality which no carving in wood could emulate’.*

Mr Charlie Mackinnon

Mackinnon Fine Furniture

LAPADA Guide to Diamond Cuts

Diamonds were probably worn as early as the sixth century BC, though the oldest extant examples date from Ancient Rome.

Paul Daughters

Berganza Ltd

LAPADA Guide to Portrait Enamels

Most significant portrait miniature collections also contain portrait enamels. These usually resemble watercolour portrait miniatures in their framing and size, yet they were produced in a very different way and their creators were more closely associated with watchmakers and jewellers than with the manuscript illuminators who evolved the first portrait miniatures.

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