A LATE REGENCY BURR ELM AND ROSEWOOD CHIFFONIER

Recommended features

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  • Private eye: selected highlights from our Private Sales

    Hongmiao Shi gets the specialists’ perspectives on a quartet of precious artworks and objects available for immediate purchase

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  • Virtual tour: Classic Art in Paris

    A 360-degree view of important works from the Renaissance to the 20th century ahead of our four auctions in Paris this May, including a drawing from Tiepolo’s Punchinello series, illustrated books by Picasso and an 18th-century equinoctial sundial

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  • The tastemaker: Alex Papachristidis

    The New York-based interior designer reveals his choice of items offered in the online Collector sale from 28 April to 7 May

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  • The A-Z of furniture: Terminology to know when buying at auction

    From applique and back splats to veneering and wingbacks, an essential glossary of furniture terms

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  • Christo’s towering ambition

    As the world mourns the death of the the Bulgarian-born artist, we look back on a 2018 interview with Christie’s in which he reviewed his extraordinary career

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  • Charles Dickens and ‘the first computer program’

    The library of the novelist included a translation by a brilliant young mathematician that foresaw the age of computing