Adam's sale expected to appeal to specialist collectors

Specialist collectors will be interested in Adam's sale of period furniture, paintings and decorative arts this week.

The catalogue cover features a handsome set of four William IV mahogany hall chairs, the backs decorated with carved scallop shells, the plain panel seats on turned supports (€6,000€8,000).

Most hall chairs date from the late 18th century and owe the (now pleasing) severity of their design to the fact that they were intended for use ...