Recaps of major sales from Sotheby's, Christie's, and regional auction houses.
A season-defining furniture sale offered a clear read on where connoisseur demand is concentrating, and where even famous names failed to move the room.
A recent design-focused sale produced both eye-popping records and quiet steals, and the split between the two tells dealers exactly where to focus.
Away from the marquee sales, regional auction houses are quietly outperforming, and their results say more about the trade's actual health than any headline lot.
A recent silver-specialist sale offered a clear read on where collector demand is concentrated across three centuries of English and Continental work.
Bidding paddles have given way to browser tabs, and the shift is changing who buys antiques, what they pay, and how houses run their rooms.
A composite look at how a lifetime collection becomes an auction event, from the first appraisal visit to the gavel falling on the final lot.
Estimates, reserves, and buyer's premiums are not the plain-English figures they appear to be, and misreading them costs bidders real money.