Furniture

The two opening lots of Chorley’s Modern Art & Design sale on June 2 were a walnut and ebony secretaire cabinet and a dresser designed and made by Arts & Crafts titan Sidney Barnsley (1865-1926).

West Sussex firm has made the trunks something of a speciality after four five-figure sales in a decade

Many of the Austrian designer Gustav Gurschner’s works of art were driven by the new possibilities provided by electricity.

Government plans for new fire safety regulations could simplify the rules for the resale of second-hand and vintage upholstered furniture in the UK.

Furnishings and personal items from Rydal Mount, the final home of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, will be offered at auction this month.

A silver and horn casket made for Queen Victoria but given to King Edward VII is offered by Mark Goodger Antiques at the Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair from June 12-14.

ATG chats to David Harvey from Oxfordshire dealership WR Harvey to discuss the firm’s 75 years in the furniture business, as well as his diamond jubilee exhibition, Marquetry to Metamorphic, which runs until June 13

The last antique rugs, carpets and textiles concession in a London department store closes this month.

This Indo-Portuguese ivory inlaid rosewood side table had last been sold in 1950 when it was bought by the ceramicist Eric James Mellon (1925-2014) while an art student in London.

Giving a new lease of life to otherwise undesirable old items makes for an exciting, if occasionally controversial, line of business.

Perth saleroom Lindsay Burns (22% buyer’s premium) posted a new house record with an exceptional piece of period jewellery at its latest three-day sale.

Gardening and vernacular furniture displayed as imagined from Beatrix Potter's Mr McGregor’s garden shed forms a highlight from the upcoming The Decorative Fair on May 12-17

This Flemish Baroque carved ebony table cabinet shown below opens to reveal intricate silk needlework images of flowers to the inside of its three doors.

Robert Tucker lives in the Grade I-listed Restoration House in Rochester with his partner Jonathan Wilmot.

An Irish Regency overmantel mirror in Egyptian Revival style by the Dublin artisan Joshua Kearney (1797-1849) hammered for $22,000 (£16,400) against a $6000-8000 guide at Andrew Jones Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in Los Angeles.