Antique shops - antiques need not feel trad – it is all about how you use them. Hatta Byng talks to leading interior designers and dealers to find out what they are buying and why.
Drew Pritchard in his living room in Conwy
Credit: Heathcliff O Malley
Before Drew Pritchard had even got out of his antique bed this morning he’d bought a beautiful 18th-century marble bench, a pair of painted obelisks, two heraldic panels, a plaster frieze of the Parthenon and a 19th-century campaign chest.
That could be considered the definition of madness, I tell him, if it wasn’t what he did for a living.
“It is madness in a way,” he shoots back. Despite working in the decorative salvage market for more than 30 years, even he still can’t believe what he gets to do for a living.