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Holly Johnson launches Antiques Showroom in Knutsford

Long established Holly Johnson Antiques has recently opened a large showroom in the centre of historic town - Knutsford, Cheshire. This follows 28 years in business, and showing exhibition quality antiques at the major international Art and Antiques Fairs, and meeting the needs of their worldwide client base.

Holly trained at Christies, went onto develop her career at Bonhams (then Phillips) and following this worked with David Dickinson showing 19th Century Exhibition Furniture at the major London Fairs.

The business has supplied all the leading international interior designers over the years, with a particular following in America, shipping items over to grace many of the luxury homes throughout the States. They also supply many London based designers for private and hotel projects. There have been many celebrity clients along the way including Oprah Winfrey, Woody Allen the film director, Janet Jackson, renowned Chef /Hotelier Marco Pierre White, the Beckhams to name a few.

Holly Johnson Antiques is one the largest dealers of vintage Piero Fornasetti, the much-acclaimed Milanese artist and designer, and have lent a number of his early works to the Louvre and other International museums and art galleries.

Another specialism is English Arts and Crafts, and they regularly work to supply clients with pieces by Edward Barnsley, Gordon Russell, William Morris, Peter Waals and Earnest Gimson.

Modern British Art is a major specialism, and they sell naturalist artworks by Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe which are particularly sought after. Northern Art is another genre and they deal in work by artists such as Harold Riley, Liam Spencer, Arthur Delany and Peter Brook.

Holly also designs her own exclusively designed Art Glass with the leading Glass Masters from Murano, Venice.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Lindsay Jones .