I鈥檓 no sooner through the door of his Camberwell home than Will Fisher is holding up a set of enormous 19th century walrus tusks. 鈥淚鈥檇 been looking for a set of these for about three years Cheap Air Jordan Shoes ,鈥?he says, marvelling at them and explaining what a rare find they are. His wife Charlotte Freemantle tells me that she expects them to lie around for months while he works out where to put them. 鈥淭he thing about doing things the way Will likes to is that it takes five times longer,鈥?she smiles.聽
It rather neatly frames the dynamic of the couple behind Jamb Limited, on Pimlico Road. Will is an English country house-obsessed antiques dealer and a bit of a daydreamer. Charlotte, his business partner and wife, takes a more practical view of things Cheap Jordan Shoes Online , such as whether or not his acquisition of a 9ft-tall taxidermy giraffe head and neck might scare their young children, Eliza and Monty. Jamb sells antique fireplaces and reproduction fireplaces and lighting which evoke the aesthetic of Robert Adam, William Kent and Sir John Soane. It鈥檚 a look that is evident in the interior of their home. 鈥淭he children hate it,鈥?Will says of the bare floorboards and walls, in a Paint Library shade called Slate. 鈥淎nd my mother keeps asking when we鈥檙e going to carpet it.鈥?We are standing in the hallway, which is 鈥渁 tribute to the Horniman Museum鈥? where items mounted on the wall include a dog鈥檚 head Cheap Jordan Retro Shoes , inscribed 鈥楻agland, died 1st September 1920鈥? and the spiky jaw of a gharial (a fish-eating crocodile). 鈥淓liza told her friends she had a crocodile at home, but she forgot to mention it was stuffed,鈥?says Freemantle.
Their Georgian house is on a quiet residential street and is marked by a Victorian bay window stuck on the front; an 鈥渦gly duckling鈥?addition which Will is very fond of, and one might say is his one concession to modernism. From the light switches to the antique furniture, there are not many 21st century additions Cheap Jordan Shoes , although I did spot a dishwasher! Even the lights have filament bulbs which give off a subtle glow. All the lights in the house are antique, or reproductions which they make and sell, often in a smaller scale than the original, and they are stunning. A new range is coming this autumn. On a grey day it might be quite gloomy in the basement kitchen, yet looking out the window, up the giant stone staircase (transplanted from a country pile) towards the spire of the church they were married in Cheap Jordan Why Not Zer0.2 , it all feels incredibly romantic.
The couple bought the house around eight years ago and moved in with a newborn baby. There were half rotten carpets and live wires hanging down and Will decided the first thing he would do was build a neoclassical pond at the foot of the long garden. 鈥淚t became my obsession鈥?he says. 鈥淚 soon ran out of money and we still had the whole house to do.鈥?They moved out for six months during renovations, which turned into two and a half years.
Charlotte鈥檚 patience was severely tested when Will purchased the giraffe: 鈥淲hat don鈥檛 you understand about having two children under five?鈥?she asked. 鈥淲e鈥檙e not living in Blenheim Palace.鈥?The need for a large clear out coincided with them being forced, in 2012, to move out of their old showroom and into the current premises. Will was 鈥渟educed by Christie鈥檚鈥?and given three months to get together 500 lots with a total value of up to 拢1m. What followed was a nerve-wracking experience of going through all of the things he had acquired over the years, trying to make sense of his personal collection as a group, cataloguing it and then attaching a price. The risk of failure loomed large; would people respond to it? If not Cheap Jordan Why Not Zer0.1 , he was set to make a colossal loss. In the end it was a triumph; with bidding wars over some Elgin Marble-like stone tablets, the sale closed at 拢3.9m.
For a dedicated antique dealer and collector like Will, who brings a seriousness to his work, this was validation and, with hindsight, an invigorating challenge. English country house has not exactly been the most fashionable style of furniture to be acquiring in the past 20 years Cheap Jordan Trainer 3 , not least because of its inconveniently large scale for most London homes. That said, Will believes that there is also an overlap with what he does and the current trend for industrial chic. 鈥淚n many senses the two are interlinked,鈥?he says. 鈥淭he obsession with surface, bare bones and integrity.鈥?Could country house dealing, by default, become the next big thing?聽 He certainly hopes so. Contemporary furniture holds little interest for him commercially and doesn鈥檛 spark his imagination. 鈥淲ith antique furnitures the origins Cheap Jordan Standard , the designer, so much of the information is lost so you have to judge it on merit and ask yourself 鈥?is it junk? It鈥檚 like learning a language,鈥?he says. 鈥淚t鈥檚聽 an understanding built upon hours of anxiety and looking. But you can become blas茅. Complacency is the killer.鈥?br > Charlotte and Will have another interior design project on the go at the moment, renovating a property on Hanbury Street in the Jamb aesthetic. It will serve as a kind of showcase of what they can do, just as their own home does now. As Will puts it: 鈥淭here鈥檚 always more stuff to buy鈥?
If you are searching for antique shops in London, then you are at the right place. provides all types of fireplace surrounds like traditional wood surrounds Cheap Jordan Spiz'ike , steel surrounds. For more details about antique dealers, please visit us.
Total Views: 154Word Count: 934See All articles From Author
Time for a Clean Out Business Articles | June 29, 2003 Time has flown. It's been six months since you came back from your relaxing holiday over Xmas and New Year. Remember when you charged into the office that first day, all primed to make the new year th
Time has flown. It's been six months since you came back from your relaxing holiday over Xmas and New Year.