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The Chelsea Antiques Fair - 23 – 27 March 2022

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  The Chelsea Antiques Fair - 23 – 27 March 2022 Wick Antiques - An exceptional late George II mahogany settee, made for Anne Basset, daughter of Edmund Prideaux, 5th Baronet of Netherton, attributed to William Hallett. Date: Circa 1756. Dimensions: Height 38 ½ inches Width 48 ½ inches. Priced at £58,500.   Event: The Chelsea Antiques Fair Organiser: 2Covet Venue: Chelsea Old Town Hall, King's Road, London, SW3 5EE Date: 23 – 27 March 2022     FOLLOW THIS ORGANISER:         Andrew Muir - A highly decorative and rare Carltonware animal design wall charger, c.1930. Priced at £2,800. ABOUT THIS FAIR: Back to the Future at Chelsea Antiques & Fine Art Fair “Chelsea turns back the clock to move forward in style” - Rachel Fellman, Antiques Trade Gazette, 2021. Following its highly acclaimed relaunch last September, the famous Chelsea Antiques &  Fine Art Fair is now firmly established as one of London's major art and antique events of the spring season.  The fair made its debu
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The Decorative Collective - Last Minute Lushlist

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  We are delighted to welcome the glamourous and enticing marketplace  Decorative Collective  to join our list of guest bloggers with this alluring lushlist of last minute gift ideas for Christmas and beyond!   It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and we have found some adorable and unusual luscious gift ideas right here right now that can make their way to you in time for Christmas morning!   1. Who doesn’t love a board game on Christmas afternoon? We found this handsome backgammon set housed in a decorative faux book box, easy to wrap and easy to please. From  Fontaine Decorative  at an affordable £225.   2. A glass bowler hat as champagne bucket, what’s not to love? This is an absolute gem for Christmas feasting and frivolity. This vintage champagne bucket was made for Laurent Bouy in Verzy France, for the Grand Cru Brut 1992. It is a rare and novel find. The bottom is stamped `Laral, Made in France, bons en Chablais`. It is named with the champagne producer`s original hard g
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The Social Security Administration reports that Baby Boomers are retiring at the rate of 10,000 people a day. The CDC reports the U.S mortality rate at just over 7,000 people daily. When these very real life transitions are expressed in numerical terms, it means that 17,000 families a day are experiencing the kind of life transitions which inevitably leads to the selling of personal property. Presently, and for the foreseeable future an avalanche of household goods from retirees and heirs will flood the market and at an unprecedented rate. Along with this explosion of supply comes an exponential increase in the need for estate sales services. Who will sell and process all this stuff? Who is qualified? The natural answer to these questions is to hire an estate sales company. Due to a low barrier of entry and no real regulation, dozens of new estate sales companies are started every month across the country. Various sources estimate there are as many as 14,000 estate sales compa
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