Contents updated–at £1m

Decorator’s home supplies the demands of today now good looks outrank authentic age: WITH a hammer total of well over £1 million and a 98 per cent selling rate, the on-the-premises contents sale at Wormington Manor, Worcestershire, notched up the sort of figures in the grand tradition of such Sotheby’s events, but in fact it was in many ways much more representative of current trends than past glories.

Here, rather than dusty heirlooms and furniture passed down through generations guaranteed to pull i…

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