When
buyers strolled among the antiques dealers of Budapest in 1995, they
found incredible bargains but no one who could ship them. Jeff Taylor
decided to start a business of shipping art and antiques so that buyers
could acquire those bargains. So Budapest had grown in to the Art
and Antiques wholesale center for Central Europe, and the North American
dealers who came here needed a full-range of services beyond just
simple transport.
Taylor
Art Advisors now specializes in all the agency work necessary to help
both commercial buyers and collectors maximize their purchasing in
Central Europe. We guide clients to sources, bid at auctions, arrange
for restorations, and provide research on objects. And of course we
arrange for the packaging and transportation.
We've
also begun to regularly comment on the Art Market through our newsblog
Art Miser, where we give
our own blunt assesments of what is going in the art and antiques
business, both locally and in the wider world.
In
addition to featuring analysis on auctions, record-prices, up-and-coming
artists, and market directions, we also explore the more intriguing
and sensitive topics of art-theft, looting, plunder, restitution,
and cultural protection. One exciting new feature will be our:
This
feature will show an outstanding art object that we feel is both an
excellent example of its genre and well-priced. We intend it to be
analytical window shopping, and, if the piece is something you're
interested in, then we can put you in touch with the dealer who's
selling it. During Auction Season, we'll often highlight outstanding
but perhaps under-noticed items coming up for sale. A Cool
Object of the Week might be a high-end painting one week,
and an inexpesive bentwood chair the next. We'll be trying to explore
the vast array of goods known as art and antiques. And we're also
going to be talking price, since we think that is fundamentally our
service to the clients: helping them to know what the right price
is.
Art
and antiques can be a fanastic investment, but like every business,
it has its pitfalls and its learning curves. Taylor Art Advisors provides
serices that allow our clients maximize the market's opportunities
while helping them to steer clear of its dangers.
