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The Ideal Home - Original source material for the best in Scandinavian style
Original Scandinavian furnishings from a North London flat that featured in Ideal Home Magazine in 1962 are coming up for sale later this month.
A trio of teapots: one to use, one to display and one to tell the time
Keep calm and drink tea – certainly good advice during the current lockdown. And what better way to enjoy a brew than serving it in a rare, elegant or unusual teapot?
Spice up your life with some super salt and pepper pots
From stately silver to kitschy creatures, salt and pepper shakers offer a niche but accessible collecting field.
Five affordable Modern British artworks at auction including Henry Moore lithograph
If you want to buy a ‘more affordable’ piece of Modern British art such as works by by Henry Moore or Mary Fedden, regional auction houses offer fine possibilities in various forms.
Pop art-inspired luxury Hermès handbag comes to online auction
A rare Hermès Birkin handbag called ‘Endless Road’ which was inspired by Pop art will be auctioned today at Fellows Auctioneers.
Be a friend of the Earth: Buy your furniture at auction
Reduce, reuse, recycle. We’ve all heard it before, so why not commit to making a real change today, World Environment Day, and ditch your flatpacks for the fabulous and affordable furniture available at auction.
Sold on thesaleroom.com: a rare Delft tulip vase, a Kangxi dish and a souvenir of Shackleton’s Nimrod exhibition
From the thousands of lots that appear at auctions every week on thesaleroom.com, here we focus on three exceptional lots bought by online bidders this month
Be prepared when the sunshine returns with vintage picnic accessories sourced at online auctions
When the hot whether returns make sure you are beach or park-ready with this selection of vintage picnic items.
Five ‘more affordable’ ways to buy a work related to the world’s most expensive living artist at auction
Given that David Hockney is the world’s highest valued living artist, ever since Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) took a premium-inclusive $90.3m (£70.3m) in a 2018 New York auction, prices for his work are probably beyond most of us.
For the dad who has everything: buy something brilliant for Father’s Day on thesaleroom.com
After something extra special for Father’s Day? Why not go for something original or with a bit of history from the huge array of auctions taking place on thesaleroom.com?