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Around 50 people attending the Menzies Gallery in Kensington, Sydney did battle with half a dozen telephones and internet screens for the 198 lots of a remarkable offering of Australian precious metalwork.
William McInnes plays host for this Collectors redux of a sort, which follows ordinary folk as they sell precious things, collectables and other possessions at auction. The premise is simple: our consumerism, and the emotions brought forth when we part with material possessions, as a window on our increasingly complex lives.
For more than two decades, Sydney antiques dealer Martyn Cook and interior designer Thomas Hamel have helped Australia’s seriously wealthy to decorate their homes. But now the power couple of the antiques and design business is splitting up. As a result, and as part of a move by Cook towards the more modern furniture that the market now wants, they have consigned more than 500 lots from their joint businesses and personal collection to Mossgreen Auctions for dispersal.
Arguably, very arguably, this is the most impressive single sale of Australian precious metalwork to come onto the market in living memory. Despite the title, but in no way reducing the importance of the content, the majority of items are from vendor(s) outside the Foundation Collection.
There is still hope yet, for strange marriages, writes Terry Ingram. An ivory inlaid and marquetry cabinet on stand is proving to be one of the great finds of the Australian saleroom apparently despite being one.
AFTER 40 years selling blue-chip antiques from his quadruple shopfront in Melbourne's Armadale, Graham Geddes is set to liquidate his entire collection of up to 1500 pieces. The auction, which is being conducted by Leonard Joel, is expected to raise more than $5 million. Three of Geddes's five children will continue operating the statue-manufacturing and classic hire divisions, which have supplied props for numerous movies.
Leslie Walford, the man who seventy years ago began the slide away from drab interiors filled with Victorian brown furniture so beloved of old Sydney money, died in a St Vincent's Hospice in Sydney on Monday night.
Paul Sumner's Mossgreen Auctions is the latest auction house to be burned by the Chinese dragon that has both fired and savaged the top end of the Chinese antiques.
The Wedgwood Museum must be saved, the United Nations heritage committee says, despite a High Court decision that its collection should be sold to pay off the company’s £134 million deficit