Antique sedan chairs collection at Chorley’s
The largest known private collection of exceptionally rare antique sedan chairs is to be offered for auction at Chorley’s in
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Vintage IKEA furniture in demand
With its mass-produced pieces seemingly the antithesis of the antiques world, early pieces from the global-spanning Swedish manufacturer of furniture
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£5 junk shop chair is Vienna Secession
An important example of Vienna Secession furniture, bought earlier this year for just £5 from a junk shop, made £16,250,
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Rare chairs make a million
A set of four chairs, ordered by the Comte d’Artois in 1778 for his bedroom in Bagatelle, has sold for
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Guide to Welsh Stick Chairs
Antique dealer Tim Bowen has had a lifelong love of Welsh stick chairs, admiring them for their sculptural beauty and
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Charles Voysey chairs make thousands
A pair of Art and Crafts bedroom chairs removed for auction from a house in Cheltenham stunned bidders at The
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Space Odyssey Djinn chairs in London sale
Two iconic designer chairs and a sofa that were chosen by Stanley Kubrik for his futuristic classic, 2001: A Space
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Boring brown? Appealingly antique!
A Somerset auction house said visitors to their recent sale had an “eagerness to buy” so-called brown furniture, with 87%
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Take a chair – the power of classic chair design
What you are sitting on says a lot about you. From the utilitarian school bench, to Sir Alan Sugar’s boardroom
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Well-worn chairs are winners
A pair of well-worn leather armchairs, ascribed to Danish designer Ib Koford Larsen, was in demand at a recent sale
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