Articles, reports & dispatches.
Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
Battersea Decorative Antiques Fair Album, January 2014
The Battersea Winter Decorative Antiques Fair is pleasant and relatively low-pressure event, aimed primarily at the mid-level local (UK) antique and semi-antique decorative furnishings market.
Peter Pap to bring Spring colour to New York Asia Week
To coincide with New York’s Asia Week, Peter Pap will showcase around 75 carefully selected antique oriental rugs, at a venue still to be announced (watch this space) from 20-30 March 2014
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Ian Bennett remembered
It was with great sadness that we heard of the peaceful passing of our old friend and former HALI colleague Ian Bennett, in Bath, England, during the Christmas break, aged 68.
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Sotheby's New York to sell distinguished carpets on 31 January
Sotheby’s New York will offer 175 lots of ‘Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections’ on 31 January 2014, making a genuine virtue of the value of provenance.
Some antique carpet and textile highlights at Rippon Boswell's 30 November 2013 auction
The Friday afternoon viewing on 29 November 2013 was rather less well-attended than for past sales, but by the opening of the auction on the afternoon of Saturday 30th November, Rippon Boswell 's Friedrichstrasse saleroom in Wiesbaden was reasonably full. Our impression,…
