Value the key for furniture collectors

There is a good selection of styles and period furniture at Woodwards sale, writes Des O’Sullivan.

This Rosewood wine cooler/cellarette in Woodwards auction next Wednesday bears the paper stamp of Mack Williams and Gibton and is estimated at €1,000-€2,000.

LONG before this recession began antique furniture faced challenges posed by fashion. Demand in those vanished profligate days of conspicuous consumption focused on pared down expensive contemporary furniture. Value is the focus of that same demand nowadays; antiques can provide it and it is fashionable to mix various styles and periods.