Summary
These are firms which have adapted to the new realities of the art market -- to both the exalted power of the auction-houses and to the decline in footfall as the new rich have less time to 'do' the galleries -- and they have done so by concentrating their considerable expertise on the best of the best. Of course serious furniture dealers remain -- most of which inevitably are also family concerns, such as Apter-Fredericks, Blairman, Ronald Phillips and indeed H.W.
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Shutting Up Shop
One day, perhaps sooner rather than later, it may be possible to draw a telling analogy between the practices of the world financial markets which propelled the global economy to the brink of recession and those which prompted the phenomenal rise of the international cont...
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