Andrew Hill, the Financial Times’s management editor, has been working from home during the coronavirus lockdown. His workstation is an antique walnut secretaire desk that dates from the early 18th or late 17th century.
The desk was inherited (more…)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has explained that some shops selling non-essential items could re-open by June or July and this could include antique shops.
The government has announced plans to (more…)
The French state owns a large collection of antique furniture and has decided to sell part of it to support French hospitals dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
An antique auction of the state-owned furniture is (more…)
Brattle Book Shop in Boston, America is closed because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The owner of the shop, Ken Gloss has found another income stream, selling personalised Zoom backgrounds.
He noticed that many people are (more…)