Also on show are pastel landscapes at Artemis and high-tech furniture at Barry Friedman

With American classical furniture and decorative arts in close second place

She sees herself as a sculptor and rejects any links with Arts and Crafts descendant, Bernard Leach

Dealers come to share in the benefits of no income tax whatsoever

The show will exhibit colonial and European furniture, girlhood embroidery, Native American pieces, and folk art

Sales are buoyant in some areas but real estate is weakening and nerves are showing

Fetish figures, tribal shields and masks command attention

New director, Arnold Lehman, has raised the profile of America’s second largest museum in just one year by advertising

Elizabeth Addison, head of marketing and communications, uses weekly surveys and focus groups to build brand awareness

Twentieth-century decorative arts sales confirm prize prices for iconic furnishinings

Contemporary decorative arts from $68,000 fibre arts to $100,000 glass sculpture

Once upon a time, connoisseur dealers or even museum curators advised collectors what art to buy. Now the decorators hold sway, and at the Windsor sale a decorator’s pastiche pieces outsold real antiques