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We are always pleased to be able to offer our customers antique silver from two of the UK’s most celebrated and sought after silversmiths – Hester Bateman and Paul Storr. Today we are able to bring to you two pieces, just arrived into stock, one from each of the above makers. First, let’s take a...

Today we are taking a peek at a very large and impressive Antique Boardroom Table, or Conference Table, which is supplied with 16 matching chairs and which will grace the boardroom, meeting room or conference room of any organisation. Antique furniture says something about its owner. It can say “here is a person...

Motorsport is of course immensely popular in the UK and worldwide and the success of Formula 1 is a phenomena in almost every part of the planet thanks to widespread television coverage of the sport. There are, as a result, many people who collect F1 memorabilia and artwork and there is one name that has […]

At Regent Antiques we like to think that we have an eye for the beautiful, the highest quality of workmanship and, from time to time, the unusual and quirky. This blog post is about an unusual antique Victorian solid mahogany metamorphic chair, also widely known as a library chair, which we have just acquired and...

It’s not often that we feature an antique mirror but today we are going to do just that. We are going to show you one of our most recent acquisitions, sourced from a French chateau, no less, and now offered for sale online or at our north London showroom. The mirror I’m talking about is […]

A Close Up Look At Mahogany Antique Dining Tables. There are fashions and trends in furniture making and the materials used, just as in many other walks of life but one material, one very fine timber, seems to crop up over and over again when we find top quality antique dining tables and chairs, desks, […]

Welcome to another of our regular roundups of antique, Art Deco and other items that have been sold and which, we hope, are now giving lots of enjoyment and pleasure to their new owners. Our first items is this exquisite Art Deco style silver plated tea set: You can see why the new owner of this […]

We sometimes overlook those things that we take for granted; electric light, clean potable water, an endless choice of television channels and supermarkets and online shops that will deliver anything you need – right to your door. In fact we could all make a fairly long list of things that we take for granted and...

We have recently taken into stock a very fine example of French furniture design, sourced by our buyers from a French chateau: This wonderful bureau plat and cartonnier came from Chateau de Villers-Helon, a castle originally built as a fortress in 1135 by Monseigneur Helon and located 118 kms North East of Paris....

Yes it’s been a busy few days helping our customers choose that special piece of artwork and here we are looking at three bronze statues that have recently left our north London showrooms to find new homes. These are three very different pieces and we are particularly proud of the quality of each of these...