Dealing

The tides of taste

Quality is as desirable as ever

Singles club

There’s a strange delight in the commercially unviable single chair

Bring home the bacon

The humble bacon sandwich is the only possible choice for breakfast

It’s all in the mix

Modern office furniture can now happily sit alongside Queen Anne walnut

Digging a new scene

Thomas Woodham-Smith discovers the joys of gardenalia

Man with the van

Thomas Woodham-Smith on the trade’s true mavericks

Poop poop purchases

Thomas Woodham-Smith goes shopping for the dealer’s friend, a whale on wheels

Only collect

The key to successful selling is to cultivate collectors

Trophy cabinets

Thomas Woodham-Smith meets the go-to man for classic English furniture

Shock of the new

Thomas Woodham-Smith frets about how to handle real, live customers