Premises and Property

A selection of expansion news and appointments across the art and antiques market.

Book dealership Bernard Quaritch is relocating to the Holborn area of London, from Mayfair.

Elaine Phillips Antiques has moved into new premises after 40 years in Harrogate.

A total of 18 phones competed for a rare devotional painting offered by a New York institution at Freeman’s in Philadelphia this week.

A £1bn plan to revamp Olympia London, including the home of the venerable Art & Antiques Fair Olympia, has been approved by planners.

The London auctions ‘hub’ of 25 Blythe Road will now operate under a single banner of Olympia Auctions.

US auction houses Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowan's Auctions have been brought together under one umbrella company in a private equity-backed deal.

The decline in independent bookshops in the UK appears to have been halted with growth recorded for the second year in a row.

Former Thomas Watson Auctioneers director David Elstob is to launch his own auction house with wife Beth Elstob.

George Kidner Auctioneers and Valuers is to close following the retirement of its founder.

Our latest look at moves across the world of art and antiques.

More than 300 works from The Fine Art Society, which left its New Bond Street home of 142 years in August, go under the hammer at Sotheby’s next year.