Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
5 Questions: Burlington Arcade watch dealer Daniel Somlo
18 December 2023Daniel Somlo is a watch dealer at Somlo London in Burlington Arcade and a qualified Omega watchmaker.
First big fair of new year takes place in ballroom and foyer of five-star Mayfair hotel
18 December 2023The first significant fair of 2024 kicks off at The London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square with an array of art and antiques to brighten those dark January days.
5 Questions with Daniel Smith and Marine Edith Crosta
18 September 2023Marine Edith Crosta and Daniel Smith of Crosta Smith Gallery are among the exhibitors at the upcoming LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair (September 27-October1).
The web shop window: Regency writing table
18 September 2023Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Battersea Decorative fair runs with a new tribal twist
18 September 2023The Decorative Fair returns from October 3-8 for its third and final staging of the year.
Samuel Alcock & Co reassessed
18 September 2023Huge collection shines light on the once common Staffs porcelain that nonetheless is often misidentified
Lynch appointed chairman of Asia Week New York
18 September 2023London dealer Brendan Lynch has been named the new chairman of Asia Week New York.
Antiquities: importance of the history behind the history
26 June 2023Long records of ownership have become one of the crucial factors to get a good result in this market
Chicago sale lit up by cameos and intaglios
26 June 2023Combining scholarly, decorative and evocative appeal, cameos and intaglios are a highly collectable area of the antiquities market.
How Vellacott made a clean start
19 June 2023Fabrics, costumes and theatre set designer turned to painting when her work was destroyed by a bomb
Venetian veduta with a whiff of Bison
19 June 2023This classic example of Venetian vedute was taken to a multi-estimate £34,000 at Gardiner Houlgate (22% buyer’s premium) in Corsham.
Highest Mayer auction sum since 1989
19 June 2023Enthusiastic bidding emerged for two paintings included in an Old Masters sale at Chiswick Auctions (25/12% buyer’s premium).
Works offered from key figure in the Christie’s story
19 June 2023More than 70 lots of paintings, works on paper and antiques assembled by the well-known auctioneer and collector Paul Whitfield (1942- 2018) went under the hammer at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Oxford on May 17.
Big Apple TEFAF all set to open
08 May 2023TEFAF New York returns this year to the Park Avenue Armory from May 12-16.
Take a peak at Buxton
08 May 2023The picturesque spa town of Buxton in the Peak District will once again host its long-running annual fair.
West Sussex event benefits from the ‘triangle’ location
08 May 2023Fair in Petworth benefits from its setting near to a famous National Trust’s property and an 'antiques destination' town
Kean kept a low profile but is now in the spotlight
08 May 2023The stand-free fair, 'Eye of the Collector', returns to London this May for its third physical edition.
5 Questions: export porcelain specialist Allard van Halm
08 May 2023Allard van Halm runs van Halm & van Halm, specialising in 17th and 18th Chinese and Japanese export porcelain from his base in Portobello Road. He will be exhibiting at The Decorative Fair in Battersea from May 9-14.
The web shop window: recent discovery of a work by artist Georgette Rondel
08 May 2023Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Italian attractions in Philadelphia
24 April 2023This typical genre scene by Italian painter Alessandro Milesi (1856-1945) was taken to a multi-estimate $37,500 (£31,000) at a US auction