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British and Irish country house contents auctions are usually held on site at the country house, and have been used to raise funds for their owners, usually before selling the house and estate. Such auctions include the sale of high quality antique paintings , furniture , objets d'art , tapestries , books , and other household items.
A Tudorbethan sitting room in the UK. A California tract home living room, with a kitchen behind a permanent space divider, 1960. Louise Rayner, Tudor Style Interior at Haddon Hall, UK, 19th century. Miller House, Mid-century Modern, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57, "Conversation Pit". Japanese minimalist interior living room, 19th century.
Design and media personalities McCloud, George Clarke and Jo Hamilton are show ambassadors. The nine-day Grand Designs Live 2008 event, held at London's ExCeL, attracted over 100,000 visitors. To accompany the event Channel 4 broadcast two live daily programmes directly from the show, Grand Designs Live: Today and Grand Designs Live .
All programmes in the first three series have been presented by Tom Dyckhoff with the design tasks judged by Daniel Hopwood and Sophie Robinson. Interior designer Kelly Hoppen replaced Robinson as lead judge in series four, with Robinson becoming a guest judge along with Michelle Ogundehin, Elle Magazine's Decoration UK editor-in-chief. [1]
Images of England was a stand-alone project funded jointly by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund.The aim of the project was to photograph every listed building and object (some 370,000) in England and to make the images available online to create, what was at the time, one of the largest free-to-view picture libraries of buildings in the world.
It claims to be the largest family-owned fine art auctioneers in the United Kingdom. The firm holds some 80 auctions a year and attracts buyers and sellers from around the world. [1] It has twenty-seven specialist departments. [2] Tennants premises include the Garden Rooms, a multi-purpose events and concert venue with a capacity for 640 people ...
In 2016, Bonhams held its first online-only auction; the sale of watches from the collection of a European nobleman. [citation needed] In September 2018, Bonhams was acquired by the UK-based private equity company, Epiris. [8] In January 2022, Bonhams acquired the Nordic auction house Bukowskis for an undisclosed sum. [9]
Betta Living was a home improvement retailer based in Oldham, Greater Manchester with stores in more than 70 towns and cities throughout England and Wales until it went bust in November 2016. [1] Betta Living was owned by Dean House PLC and designs, manufactures and installs fitted kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms.