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Santa's been out partying, hope you manage to do the same! A very Merry
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May we firstly take this opportunity to wish all our customers and friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for your support through 2011 and we look forward to seeing you in 2012, hopefully in London in March at the BADA
Fair, Duke of York Square, Chelsea.
This financial year things have been surprisingly buoyant for us, with much interest
across the board in furniture, clocks and pictures. We have had some very good things
during 2011and will try and have some more equally as interesting and hopefully even better
pieces to offer in 2012.
With gloom and doom spreading across the financial world, despite the numerous rescue attempts and new agreements, we sit here and wait for the
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Euro to slowly implode and the return of the Drachma and Lira, with the possible addition of the Peseta and Punt! Luckily, things in the art world are not so perilous. As in 2008, we have seen in the last few weeks with all the turmoil, a slight
"holding of breath" amongst many potential clients whilst they see what happens
on the financial markets. In 2008 there was a hiccup in confidence for a few
months and then business moved forward again rather quickly, we think this time
that it will not be a very long dive underwater!
With a sale in London recently of paintings by LS Lowry and one of the offerings reaching a heady £5.6m, there is certainly life in the market for the finer things in life.
So we have taken the liberty as Christmas approaches to try and make you feel
a little more jolly, by preparing a few present suggestions, which are displayed in all their glory below.
The images are links to the pieces on our main website. Thank you all again for your support in 2011 and once again the
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The main aisle of the 2011 BADA Fair at Duke of York Square.
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Our first fair of 2012 is the traditional and extremely well regarded British Antique Dealer's Association (BADA) Fair held at the Duke of York Square, on the Kings Road in Chelsea. It is held this year from 21st
to the 27th March and promises yet again to be an exceptional event.
With the crème de la crème of British dealers exhibiting a very wide variety of top class stock from the smallest piece of glassware to large Georgian bookcases.
The event held in a purpose built luxury marquee this year has a loan exhibition
"Pomp, Pageantry & Protection" –
Royal Polearms – An Unequalled Private Collection. Formed over the last 45 years and concentrating on Imperial and Regal bodyguards, this exhibition will show
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examples of the finest design and craftsmanship by artists and metalworkers of
the European Royal Courts during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and will
demonstrate the power and prestige of some of the most famous European rulers
from 1500-1750. Don't forget to refresh yourself in the fine Cellini Restaurant
and Tattinger Champagne bar. Millington Adams are exhibiting on a new stand this
year A70 on the main aisle and would like to invite all friends and customers to
pop along for a chat and to look at our latest stock of fine British & Irish
period furniture, period English clocks and our large selection of 19th and 20th
century paintings.
We will be sending out tickets a couple of weeks before the event to
customers and friends on our mailing list. Should you not regularly receive one
of these from us by post, we will be posting a link to a complimentary e-ticket
for the fair when these become available probably early in the New Year. We look
forward to welcoming you to the 2012 BADA Fair.
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