Art & Antiques

Situated in vibrant and trendy East London, David Carter’s home is a historic and elegant four storey Queen Anne townhouse built in 1717. For many years the property has been one of London’s most popular and successful location houses, providing a playful and luxurious backdrop for countless fashion and celebrity shoots. But with two rarely used guest bedrooms, 4 0 W i N K S is being launched to help give photographers, stylists, art directors, designers, buyers, models and anyone in the creative and fashion industries somewhere fun and different to stay when they are in London for work or pleasure.

Based in Firenze, Italy, Bernardo Antichita are the dealers in Antique and Estate Jewellery, Fine Watches and Works of Art. Their collections of unusual cufflinks, sophisticated baubles and other outstanding gentlemen's accessories truly permit to express one's personality. Regularly updated website now offers most of the stock for online purchase. Unique gifts worth seeing, they will make their owner to stand out even in the most sophisticated circles of the art and antiques collectors.

One of the few surviving Georgian London auction houses, Bonhams was founded in 1793 by Thomas Dodd, a renowned antique print dealer and Walter Bonham, a book specialist. Expanded during the 1850s to handle all categories of antiques including jewellery, porcelain, furniture, arms & armour, and fine wines, Bonhams today is active in over 70 categories embracing the entire spectrum of fine art, antiques and collectibles. Bonhams is not only the world's fastest growing auction house, it is also the world’s oldest and largest auctioneer of fine art and antiques still in British ownership. The name Bonhams is recognised worldwide throughout all sectors of the fine art, antiques and collectors market, and several of its departments are established world leaders within their fields. We cover a broad range of items, from paintings to motor cars and cycles, from books to porcelain and contemporary ceramics, jewellery to rivercraft.

Removals, transportation and storage of fine art and antiques.

With over thirty years experience in the field, Plowden & Smith is established as one of the world's leading conservators and restorers of fine art objects and paintings. The workshop employs over forty staff with specialist skills ranging from those with degrees and specialist training in conservation to silversmiths, ceramists, stone carvers and cabinet makers. Between them staff at Plowden & Smith are qualified to work on virtually any object.

One of the UK's principal Fine Art Auctioneers, with General Sales, Fine Art Sales, Collectors Sales and Sporting Sales. With over 200 years of combined experience, our 12 Specialist Valuers are able to offer professional valuations for Sales, Probate, Insurance and Family Division.

On March 11, 1744, Samuel Baker, founder of Sotheby's, held the first-ever sale under his own name. The library of a certain Rt. Hon. Sir John Stanley, Bart. described as "containing several Hundred scarce and valuable books in all branches of Polite Literature" sold for a few hundred pounds. Well over two centuries later, on December 6, 1983, Sotheby's sold a single book, The Gospels of Henry the Lion, for more than 8 million pounds. Since those early days, it is not just prices that have grown considerably. So too have the scope and scale of Sotheby's itself. Samuel Baker would hardly recognize his old firm, were he to take a stroll down London's present day New Bond Street - or, for that matter, down Manhattan's York Avenue. It has only been in the last century, after all, that the original London company has expanded from book auctions to cover all areas of the fine and decorative arts. This great expansion means that Sotheby's is not just one of the oldest fine art auctioneers in the world, but also now the largest.

Founded in 1766 by James Christie, Christie's conducted the greatest auctions of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and today remains a popular showcase for the unique and the beautiful. Christie’s offers over 450 sales annually in over 80 categories, including all areas of fine and decorative arts, jewellery, photographs, collectibles, wine, and more.

At Edge Design, we believe in relationships. Very special relationships. With our clients – and with their brands. And brands, like people, need to build a special relationship with the people they are talking and selling to. Not everyone understands this relationship as well as we do. At our studio, it’s not a method. It’s magic.

Andrew Logan belongs to a unique school of English eccentrics. One of Britain's principal sculptural artists, he challenges convention, mixes media and plays with our artistic values. Since its beginnings, Logan's work has depended on the inventive use of whatever was to hand. With flair and fantasy he transformed real objects into their new and different versions. His artistic world includes fauna, flora, planets and gods. His love of travel provides the bases for several series of work.