London Silver Vaults in Best 50 Antiques Shops List

The Independent newspaper's The Information section last weekend (Sat 20 March) chose
The London Silver Vaults as one of its Best 50 Antiques Shops. 'In this remarkable centre there are some 30 dealers in antique and contemporary silver of every kind from tableware to candelabra,' says John Andrews. 'It's a great place to shop for anything silver for gifts both large and small.'

On the panel of experts making the selection were Mark Dodgson, secretary general of the British Association of Antique Dealers (www.bada.org); John Ainsley, editor of ‘Antiques Info’ (www.antiques-info.co.uk); John Andrews, editor of ‘Antique Collecting’ magazine’ (www.antiquecollectorsclub.com)and Fiona Ford of Lapada, the UK’s largest association of professional art and antiques dealers (www.lapada.org)

You can take a look at silver ideas for the study in the Picture Gallery at the Silver Vaults website

A Fashionista's Silver Style

We learn from this month’s In Style magazine that Gela Nash-Taylor, co-creative director of Juicy Couture (and wife of Duran Duran’s John Taylor) is a huge fan of The London Silver Vaults in Chancery Lane. “I … adore the London Silver Vaults. I’m a massive collector” she says in an interview with the magazine about her favourite shopping haunts in London. Her house in the country, which was recently featured in World of Interiors magazine, does indeed display some fabulous silver candelabra on her dining table, which look very chic mixed with white porcelain and lots of lovely glass. There is a wide range of silver candelabra for sale at the 30 specialist shops located at the Vaults, from the highly ornate late Georgian ones shown here, to much simpler styles and more modernist, post-war designs by the likes of Stuart Devlin and Gerald Benney. www.thesilvervaults.com

SILVER IN THE STUDY

The study is a bolt-hole, for the writer, the loafer and the reader. The London Silver Vaults Spring 2010 selling exhibition runs until the end of May. It offers the smart study (or den or office) some fabulous Victorian, Edwardian and C20th desk accessories in silver such as inkstands (like this glass and silver owl), blotters, paper knives, pen trays, Victorian propelling pencils, tapersticks (small candlesticks for reading) and a late Victorian electric silver lamp. Bookmarks and bookends lend a library air. For after-dinner there are drinks trays, goblets, and decanters, as well as bridge sets or board games, even silver dice and sports trophies to reminisce over. There are over 70 exhibits and prices range from around £30 to £10,000. See the highlights in our new Picture Gallery.
www.thesilvervaults.com