ReviewBooks
Image and impotency: book reveals the palaces and pictures of some particularly hapless Habsburgs
The Mexican Emperor Maximilian, Crown Prince Rudolf and Archduke Franz Ferdinand all came to sad ends, but amassed vast estates and works of art
NewsControversies
Director of France’s national furniture collection defends plans to sell 100 items at auction to aid healthcare workers
Move prompts fears that works from national museum collections could be sold off too
PreviewMuseums & Heritage
In the Met’s British galleries, a tale of artisans spurred by entrepreneurial forces
Installation weaves a 400-year narrative with global and sometimes dark threads
NewsAuctions
Sale prices soar past estimates at auction of decorator Mario Buatta's estate at Sotheby's
Christie's also holds its own at an auction of American furniture and folk art
ArchiveArt market
Decorative arts market report: The field is booming, fuelled by museum buying and style-hounds
"Sold to the person in the Prada suit"
ArchiveArt market
French decorative arts apparently recession-proof
The international market absorbs the Polo, Patiño and Johnson collections in one year. Tous les Louis do well but Louis XVI best of all
NewsDesign
Virgil Abloh picks five classics from Vitra Design Museum
The US fashion designer has curated a display at the museum and developed a line of limited-edition products
FeatureObituaries
Remembering Jayne Wrightsman
A reminiscence of the New York socialite, arts patron and philanthropist by Keith Christiansen, the chairman of the Met's European Paintings Department
NewsArt market
How two missing legs helped the restitution of an Italian secrétaire worth €2m
The Italian state has a permanent right to confiscate illegally exported work
ReviewDonald Judd
Settling into Donald Judd’s demanding furniture
A show at SFMoMA reminds a critic of his past experience with Judd and his creations
ArchiveCollectors
Scholar-collector John Hardy’s historic pieces for sale at Christie’s
A selection of objects with exceptional histories
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
A short history of furniture from the V&A
Simon Swynfen Jervis selects his highlights from the V&A, spanning five centuries
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
New V&A gallery focused on furniture making techniques
The V&A rocks its Gothic cradle
ArchiveArt market
Collectors remain cautious at Pavilion of Arts and Design in Paris as impulse buying declines
Many dealers reported mixed results from the fair
ArchiveArt fairs
Knitted lights and boiled leather chairs: a look at current trends in design, as seen at art fairs
Collectors in search of unusual materials at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile design fair should expect the unexpected
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A needs £1.1m to keep Baroque cabinet in the UK
It was reassembled and sold after part of it was discovered in a pizzeria
ArchiveBooks
Book review: the history of Irish furniture in all its finery
An invaluable resource, lavishly illustrated
ArchiveCollectors
Thomas Scott Kaplan, a financier who owns one of the biggest silver mines in Latin America, is spending millions on design and 17th-century Dutch paintings
He is now the world’s biggest collector of modern furniture
ArchiveAntiques
Going...going...is the traditional antique gallery dying?
Dealers race to sell stock at auction as buying tastes change
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
The new domesticity in Contemporary art
Focus is on the decorative arts at Art Basel Miami Beach
ArchiveLiechtenstein
Prince of Liechtenstein buys Badminton Cabinet for over £19 million
The finest piece of 18th-century Florentine craftsmanship will go on public show in his Vienna museum this year
ArchiveSotheby's
Decorative arts today: Where to find that coffee-filter ballgown
Contemporary applied crafts on show at Sotheby’s
ArchiveRestitution
Furniture proves the next frontier in restitution as Fraenkel objects are tracked down
A claim brought against the Musée Carnavalet in Paris has an effect on US museums
ArchiveArt market
Demand for early oak furniture has fluctuated throughout the 20th century, and even though prices have risen sharply in recent years, pieces are still "very underpriced"
Minimalist interiors are being decorated with showy accent pieces
ArchiveHoughton Hall
Acceptance in lieu deal worth £9.3 million agreed for historic house furniture
Houghton Hall’s William Kent furniture to remain in house but to belong to Victoria & Albert Museum
ArchiveBooks
Book review: 'For the King’s pleasure' is a meteorite of a book
This account of George IV’s decorations and furnishings is a landmark in the history of writing about the decorative arts
ArchiveArt market
Art Deco furniture rules the auction houses and a new sales record was set as the style replaces 18th-century furniture
Prices are rocketing, but perhaps not everything is right in this field with many experts questioning the authenticity of some pieces
ArchiveCollectors
Collector profiles: Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Scanu of New York and Madame M. of Paris. The modern charm of Art Deco
These collectors agree that the market has risen so much as to make buying almost impossible
ArchiveArt market
Ritzy auction prices for homespun objects: American Arts and Crafts design receives boost in popularity from Barbra Streisand
“At least thirty collectors are spending $200,000-500,000 a year at auction” on this branch of the decorative arts
ArchiveWinter Antiques Show
New York's Winter Antiques Show offers insight into the collecting trends, prices and the general health of the art market
The show will exhibit colonial and European furniture, girlhood embroidery, Native American pieces, and folk art
ArchiveArt fairs
A marked improvement at Grosvenor House and Olympia
Collectors from all over the world turned up with lots of money and confidence—and so did the British
ArchiveBooks
Furniture in the Palazzo Pitti, table tops take the palm
The second of the four volume series on the furniture of the Pitti Palace makes its debut
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
At last we have a serious decorative arts show: John Channon at the V&A,
The Victoria and Albert Museum may be getting back into its stride as the world's top decorative art museum if the exhibition is anything to go by.
ArchiveFakes & copies
Tajan sale flops when dealers stay away amid rumours and rulings of fakes
Rumours of fakes circulated