28 OCTOBER 1989, page 48

Ornament

Surface impressions Celina Fox T o introduce the latest lavish compila- tion of interiors, Nineteenth-Century De- coration (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £50), the author Charlotte......

Sale-rooms

Book values Peter Watson I t used to be said of the two main auction houses that Christie's were gentlemen trying to be auctioneers, while Sotheby's were auctioneers trying to......