The Collectors' Journal

The Evolution of the Chair: From Throne to Modern Icon
The Evolution of the Chair: From Throne to Modern Icon
Few objects trace the story of civilisation as quietly yet completely as the chair. It is among the most intimate forms of furniture, scaled precisely to the human body, and... Read more...
Thrones, Palaces, and Power: How Carved Furniture Became a Symbol of Authority
Thrones, Palaces, and Power: How Carved Furniture Became a Symbol of Authority
Across civilizations, power has rarely been expressed through architecture alone. It has also been carved - into wood, into ivory, into stone - onto the objects that rulers touched most... Read more...
The Leather Chesterfield Sofa: An Anatomy of Taste
The Leather Chesterfield Sofa: An Anatomy of Taste
The leather Chesterfield sofa reads like a shorthand for a particular kind of cultivated life: leather browned by years of use, deep button tufting that catches the light, rolled arms... Read more...
The Planter’s Chair: A Seat Born of Sun, Empire, and Still Afternoons
The Planter’s Chair: A Seat Born of Sun, Empire, and Still Afternoons
There are chairs designed for posture, chairs designed for ceremony, and then there is the planter’s chair - designed for survival, leisure, and long afternoons under a punishing tropical sun. Few pieces... Read more...
Victorian Style Room early 1900s
From Parlour to Bedroom: How Victorian Furniture Organised Domestic Life
Victorian furniture was never merely decorative. It was instructional. In the nineteenth century, as the home became the centre of moral, social, and family life, furniture assumed a quiet but... Read more...
Chippendale: When Furniture Learned to Speak Many Languages
Chippendale: When Furniture Learned to Speak Many Languages
In the middle of the eighteenth century, English furniture found its voice and discovered that it could speak in several dialects at once. At the center of this transformation stood... Read more...
From Paris to Bombay - How Art Deco Quietly Arrived in India
From Paris to Bombay - How Art Deco Quietly Arrived in India
Art Deco did not arrive in India with a manifesto. It came without proclamation, without schools or polemics, and without the self-conscious rupture that marked its appearance in Europe. Instead,... Read more...
In the Quiet Rooms of a Sahib’s Bungalow
In the Quiet Rooms of a Sahib’s Bungalow
To step into a sahib’s bungalow, as it once stood across the Indian subcontinent, was to enter a carefully negotiated world - half transported from Britain, half shaped by India.... Read more...
Understanding the Louis XV Silhouette
Understanding the Louis XV Silhouette
To understand the Louis XV silhouette is to understand an artistic movement that prized elegance over rigidity, intimacy over ceremony, and craftsmanship over excess. It is a style that speaks... Read more...