Sotheby’s Takes Its Antiques Roadshow Online With New Business
A new online store, Sotheby’s Home, is set to compete with 1stdibs as well as traditional brick-and-mortar antiques shops.
Source: Sotheby's Home
Sotheby’s New York holds two general design sales a year. Those sales, which include furniture, antiques, rugs, mirrors, and other kinds of decoration, usually contain around 200 lots. At most, then, Sotheby’s will auction 400 lots annually—just enough to fill a single Park Avenue apartment.
Even if you add the auction house’s other design sales to the mix—single-owner sales, “English Furniture,” “Rugs & Carpets”—you’re still not looking at more than a couple thousand interior objects a year.