Chair

The auction record for a pair of chairs was broken twice as part of Christie’s Rothschild family auction series in New York.

Sarah Colegrave Fine Art, a regular at the Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair, will bring a chair from the investiture of the Price of Wales in 1969.

Our in-depth special feature on royal memorabilia kicks off with a look at the market for ‘Coronation Furniture’ produced for the big day since 1902.

The design of a sofa and two corresponding chairs on offer at Hargesheimer (28% buyer’s premium) in Düsseldorf could never be described as restrained.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online.

The Asian art sale at John McInnis in Massachusetts on February 25 includes this pair of Qing ‘official’s hat’ type huanghuali armchairs.

Bidders who missed out on a version of Gerald Summers’ 1933-34 plywood armchair sold for £20,000 as part of a collection of Simple Furniture at Lyon & Turnbull last October did not have too long to wait for another to appear for sale.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

More than 20 yards of Morris & Co fabric and two Howard & Son chairs were among a group of lots consigned to auction in Wiltshire with a provenance to Haselbech Hall, Northampton, and the Bower Ismay family.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Glasgow School designer’s embroidered silk design instantly stood out in a box of fabric.

One boasted an illustrious ‘Fonthill heirloom’ provenance, the other a Hotung collection background

While traditional antique furniture prices are still relatively cheap, contemporary and mid-20th century material continues to be an expanding market.

Sotheby’s Paris is selling the contents from the Hôtel Lambert, a 17th century Parisian Hôtel Particulier on the Ile de La Cité.

PAD London returns for its 14th staging at Berkeley Square, London, coinciding as usual with Frieze Week.

Salon Art + Design puts the emphasis on the eclectic nature of its offering, bringing together vintage, modern and contemporary design and setting it against 20th century art.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Among the pieces included in Freemans’ Art and Design sale is this Womb chair by the Finnish-American designer Eero Saarinen, a design from 1947-48.

Mid-20th century designer material such as teak Boomerang chairs was in demand at a Ewbank’s (25% buyer’s premium) sale in Woking this summer.