Furniture
In pictures: the best of Design Miami
Our picks from the decorative art and furniture design fair
In pictures: Design Miami makes a stand
Furniture clad in shingles, a tiger with a ceramic coat and a chair made of chains are some of the highlights of Design Miami 2023
PAD London fair celebrates 15th edition as contemporary design market matures
The art and design fair opens in London's Mayfair a day before Frieze London
How Danish design helped shape 1950s American design culture and taste
A new book outlines how cultural affinity helped Danish carpentry’s ‘craftsmanship is king’ ideal conquer the US during the Cold War
Image and impotency: book reveals the palaces and pictures of some particularly hapless Habsburgs
The Mexican Emperor Maximilian, Crown Prince Rudolf and Archduke Franz Ferdinand all came to sad ends, but amassed vast estates and works of art
Director of France’s national furniture collection defends plans to sell 100 items at auction to aid healthcare workers
Move prompts fears that works from national museum collections could be sold off too
In the Met’s British galleries, a tale of artisans spurred by entrepreneurial forces
Installation weaves a 400-year narrative with global and sometimes dark threads
Sale prices soar past estimates at auction of decorator Mario Buatta's estate at Sotheby's
Christie's also holds its own at an auction of American furniture and folk art
Decorative arts market report: The field is booming, fuelled by museum buying and style-hounds
"Sold to the person in the Prada suit"
French decorative arts apparently recession-proof
The international market absorbs the Polo, Patiño and Johnson collections in one year. Tous les Louis do well but Louis XVI best of all
Virgil Abloh picks five classics from Vitra Design Museum
The US fashion designer has curated a display at the museum and developed a line of limited-edition products
Remembering Jayne Wrightsman
A reminiscence of the New York socialite, arts patron and philanthropist by Keith Christiansen, the chairman of the Met's European Paintings Department
Object Lessons: from a pioneering wooden chair to a hypnotic Delvaux painting
Our highlights from January's fairs and auctions
How two missing legs helped the restitution of an Italian secrétaire worth €2m
The Italian state has a permanent right to confiscate illegally exported work
Settling into Donald Judd’s demanding furniture
A show at SFMoMA reminds a critic of his past experience with Judd and his creations
Scholar-collector John Hardy’s historic pieces for sale at Christie’s
A selection of objects with exceptional histories
A short history of furniture from the V&A
Simon Swynfen Jervis selects his highlights from the V&A, spanning five centuries
New V&A gallery focused on furniture making techniques
The V&A rocks its Gothic cradle
Collectors remain cautious at Pavilion of Arts and Design in Paris as impulse buying declines
Many dealers reported mixed results from the fair
Knitted lights and boiled leather chairs: a look at current trends in design, as seen at art fairs
Collectors in search of unusual materials at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile design fair should expect the unexpected
V&A needs £1.1m to keep Baroque cabinet in the UK
It was reassembled and sold after part of it was discovered in a pizzeria
Book review: the history of Irish furniture in all its finery
An invaluable resource, lavishly illustrated
Thomas Scott Kaplan, a financier who owns one of the biggest silver mines in Latin America, is spending millions on design and 17th-century Dutch paintings
He is now the world’s biggest collector of modern furniture
Going...going...is the traditional antique gallery dying?
Dealers race to sell stock at auction as buying tastes change
The new domesticity in Contemporary art
Focus is on the decorative arts at Art Basel Miami Beach
Prince of Liechtenstein buys Badminton Cabinet for over £19 million
The finest piece of 18th-century Florentine craftsmanship will go on public show in his Vienna museum this year
Decorative arts today: Where to find that coffee-filter ballgown
Contemporary applied crafts on show at Sotheby’s
Furniture proves the next frontier in restitution as Fraenkel objects are tracked down
A claim brought against the Musée Carnavalet in Paris has an effect on US museums
Demand for early oak furniture has fluctuated throughout the 20th century, and even though prices have risen sharply in recent years, pieces are still "very underpriced"
Minimalist interiors are being decorated with showy accent pieces
Acceptance in lieu deal worth £9.3 million agreed for historic house furniture
Houghton Hall’s William Kent furniture to remain in house but to belong to Victoria & Albert Museum