Premises and Property

Auction house Chorley’s has changed hands, with director Thomas Jenner-Fust buying the business with former colleague and friend Werner Freundel.

The New York dealership Hyde Park Antiques, founded in 1965, will sell nearly 500 lots at Sotheby’s next year.

Bennie Gray is celebrating the long-awaited opening of the new Bond Street station in Mayfair.

Two leading book dealers have come together to jointly buy the eponymous William Reese Company and its 40,000 stock of books.

Lay’s Auctioneers (previously known as David Lay) has expanded with a second saleroom in its home county of Cornwall.

Dickinson Gallery’s managing director Emma Ward and James Roundell have left to set up a firm with Old Master specialist Fabrizio Moretti.

A former theatre, corn market, auction rooms, exhibition space and council office has been “reanimated” as an “emporium” by a group of art and antiques dealers.

Styles Silver of Hungerford has moved a few doors down the road. The LAPADA member started trading at 12 Bridge Street in Hungerford in 1979 and has now moved down the street to number 3.

A quick look at some recent events and objects on offer around the trade.

Two Scottish auction houses have merged to form a new operation: Thomson Roddick Callan.

Couple move upstairs in their 17th century Cotswolds townhouse to open an antiques shop below

Bishop & Miller is expanding into Norfolk this autumn with a new saleroom and team.

Bonhams has closed its coin and medals department in London and specialist John Millensted will now work as a consultant to the firm.

Ex-industrial premises have been brought back by firms relying on heritage interest