These collectors agree that the market has risen so much as to make buying almost impossible

Artists and designers 100 years ago were united in their embrace of modernity

British and French authorities dismayed at disposals that they considered illegal

Pietro Accorsi's long wait to showcase his collection is over

“At least thirty collectors are spending $200,000-500,000 a year at auction” on this branch of the decorative arts

The museum and the Great Exhibition from which it derives are the subject of five new books

Abbot and Holder, Colnaghi, Maas Gallery, Lumley Cazalett Contemporary Applied Arts, Fine Art Society, David Black, Bloomsbury Workshop, Whitford Fine Art

With American classical furniture and decorative arts in close second place

Painting, design, and decorative arts from Colonial times until the Second World War

Director Cristina Aschengreen-Piacenti has pioneered the project, refusing to allow the residence of a great Anglo-Florentine collector to fade from memory

A true collectors’ market, with almost 100% demand

An exhibition of Sikh treasures casts new light upon the art of an Indian culture better known for its war-like tendencies

Fires at the Pitti Palace and Hampton Court have led to this survey of baroque sculptor, Grinling Gibbons

The history, form and function of European ironwork

British architect, Christopher Seddon, is the project manager

Collectors from all over the world turned up with lots of money and confidence—and so did the British

Twentieth-century decorative arts sales confirm prize prices for iconic furnishinings

Contemporary decorative arts from $68,000 fibre arts to $100,000 glass sculpture

Golf is the new passion of millionaire who has sold Impressionists and French decorative art to the tune of $91.48 million since 1989

Once upon a time, connoisseur dealers or even museum curators advised collectors what art to buy. Now the decorators hold sway, and at the Windsor sale a decorator’s pastiche pieces outsold real antiques

The second of the four volume series on the furniture of the Pitti Palace makes its debut

Exhibition promises to be “the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Art Nouveau ever staged”

The 'futures' department aims at spotting the antiques of tomorrow

Designers Carl and Karin Larsson were creators of Swedish style, at present much featured in the glossies

A round-up of some recent books on porcelain, pottery and delftware

Affordable, good quality and diverse, it brings in all sorts

From gunmakers to silversmiths

Titus M. Eliëns, Marjan Groot and Frans Leidelmeijer, Dutch Decorative Arts, 1880-1940

Third biannual of strongly supported contemporary decorative arts

Timothy Schroder named curator for the collection, and will start work on the Somerset House displays