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Design

On the block

London’s Phillips de Pury, Chicago’s Wright, Sweden’s Örnsbergsauktionen and Berlin’s Auctionata are put under the Monocle microscope, as we explore how the auction design industry is keeping pace in the 21st century.

  • Issue #52
  • 1 min read
Phillips de Pury & Company Design department
Culture

Art market

A new Russian TV comedy channel, a bookshop in Bratislava, a new gallery in Washington and a Q & A with the founder of the Pinta art festival in Argentina.

  • Issue #52
  • 5 min read
Industrial gallery space with contemporary furniture design installations featuring geometric pieces and colorful textiles.
Business

Art Market

Galleries, art sales, interviews and the latest media products, both analogue and digital.

  • Issue #54
  • 5 min read
Contemporary art gallery interior with colorful abstract painting, sculptural pedestals, and figurative artworks on white walls.
Culture

Art Market

French radio's success in London, an interview with exiled Moroccan journalist Aboubakr Jamai and auction frenzy in China

  • Issue #44
  • 4 min read
Gallery visitors and a man in a blue suit viewing artwork at an art fair.
Culture

Art market

Christie’s is posting one of its biggest auctioneers, François Curiel, to head up its Asian HQ in Hong Kong. He will lead the house's expansion in one of the most promising post-recession art markets.

  • Issue #32
  • 2 min read
Art market
Culture

Art market

The Russians are coming - well that's what London hopes. Plus, Swiss design under the hammer in Paris and plot the market's progress with the Fine Art Index.

  • Issue #24
  • 4 min read
Art market
Culture

Art market

Hip-hop's money folders sell their rocks in New York and modern art titans get hammered in Japan.

  • Issue #17
  • 4 min read
Art market
Culture

The Big Frieze

A London October used to be an uneventful time in the art sales calendar. Auction house Sotheby’s saved its strength for New York. But then, in 2003, Frieze arrived and changed everything.

  • Issue #17
  • 12 min read
The Big Frieze
Culture

Art market

The first in a new series looking at the world of buying and selling art. This month: a Q&A with Christie's specialist Carina Villinger and Damien Hirst's forthcoming Sotheby's sale.

  • Issue #16
  • 4 min read
Art market
Design

Going for old

Though the Japanese love vintage, second-hand furniture auctions are new. Now, three entrepreneurs are bringing design classics to market in the country’s first modern and contemporary furniture auction.

  • Issue #12
  • 3 min read
Hiroaki Narita, founder of Connect furniture auction house, sitting on a wooden bench against a wood-paneled wall.

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