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Antiques
I am after a reasonably-priced mid-century original (or reproduction) sofa. Where can I source one?
For high quality, original collectors’ pieces you might contact either Tanguy Rolin www.tanguyrolin.co.uk or Caira Mandaglio www.cairamandaglio.co.uk.
Other sources for mid-century originals include elemental www.elemental.uk.com , Rose & Grey www.roseandgrey.co.uk and Trainspotters www.trainspotters.uk.com.
For copies of mid 20th-century sofa designs you could try the following companies:
Chaplins www.chaplins.co.uk
Domain www.domainfurniture.info
Go Modern www.gomodern.co.uk
I am trying to source a Victorian or Victorian-style round iron-legged table with a marble top – the sort that might have been found in a conservatory or garden. It needs to have a second circular tier underneath the marble top which would be inside the circumference of the legs. Do you have any idea where I might find something like this?
Antique dealers specializing in garden furniture might have this type of table including Appley Hoare www.appleyhoare.com; they are dealers in 18th and 19th century French furniture, lighting, mirrors, paintings, stone garden decoration, cast iron garden urns and iron and wooden garden furniture.
You might also try Holloways, as they are specialists in a huge and eclectic range of antique garden ornament www.holloways.co.uk and Jane Walton Antiques. Jane has dealt in antique garden ornament for over 10 years and has a regularly changing assortment of benches, urns, statuary, chairs, tables and all types of other garden items in all materials www.janewalton.co.uk .
I’m looking for antique painted Chippendale dining chairs. I would like originals, but replicas would be all right.
The Dining Room Shop is the nationwide specialist in all manner of period dining room furnishings and accessories: tables, chairs, china, glassware, silver and linen. They offer an Antique Finders Service, and can make replica chairs for you, should you decide that is what you are after. www.thediningroomshop.co.uk.
The family run business, Hallidays Fine Antiques Ltd, established 60 years ago, have a world renowned reputation for supplying the finest period classic and country English and Continental antiques with an eye for the decorative and unusual. They often have antique Chippendale chair sets www.hallidays.com.
