ANTIQUES ANTIQUES IN THE INTERNET AGE


n the 21st century, with the accelerating increase of the digital revolution and technological design, it would seem prudent to ask ‘Do antiques have any place in this brave new world?’ As auctioneers you may think we have a bias in our response, but quite simply the answer to the above question is ‘Yes’. Markets and fashion change as we have seen in the past decade since the millennium and so too has the auction world. Live internet bidding and auctions posted on our website have provided a global market of buyers and collectors for our clients selling with us from our Exeter saleroom complex. Our weekly Antiques and Collectables auctions include Furniture, ceramics, Glass, Pictures and Collectables which still continue to attract buyers, while our Fine Art and specialist auctions cater for the demands of the specialist collector. It is true that some of the traditional staple market pieces have begun to fall by the wayside, but as the demand for Victorian tea services and chamber pots has declined, the market has shifted its concentration to other areas.


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With a certain sense of irony, one of the areas that has risen to the surface in the 21st


century is the demand for the space age designs of furniture of the mid-20th century. At a time when the space race had become a reality and the feeling that we would be living on Mars or at least


The Ball Chair


the moon by 2001, designers embraced the change of direction culturally and the results have become icons fiercely contested over in the current auction market. One such piece is the Ball chair designed


by Erro Arrino in 1963, which is instantly recognisable. To one generation it will remind them of Patrick McGoohan running away from a weather balloon on a beach in The Prisoner. To another it will be of Austin Powers (even the latter reference becoming alarmingly outdated). simplistic to the point of perfection, the Ball chair is surprisingly comfortable and as with all successful designs has been copied but never beaten. Original examples fetch around £1,000 - £1,500 at auction. Oddly, the futuristic appearance of this design and many of the pieces by designers such as charles and ray Eames, Joe colombo, harry Bertoia and Arne Jacobsen are now antiques despite the modern thinking behind their conception. In this sense, antiques are still relevant


today as new buyers and collectors become nostalgic about the future. For further details please contact Brian Goodison-Blanks on 01392 413100.


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