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There are many ways to go about decorating an apartment. You can point and order when paging through a magazine, press your nose against a window and dream about taking it all home, or you can exercise the clever method of snatching items off the auction block. 

As the early morning sun rose above the Sierra Nevada on July 29th, online bidders steadily stirred, muttering pertinent lot numbers into their coffee cups. They had been waiting all year to contend and each bidders desired artworks were just hours away from sliding across the block.

Nostalgia for the military past can be a powerful thing. Looking back at major conflicts and observing everyday people, no different from you or I, placed into the most extraordinary situations, facing peril and uncertainty with stoicism and good cheer, never ceases to fascinate.

While the Asian Art auction world is taking a summer break, James D.

The summer months descend on us like a blessing from heaven. Gone are the heavy coats and boots and in come the summer dresses, shorts and boat shoes.

Styrofoam showers of packing peanuts and blankets of bubblewrap are currently safeguarding hundreds of antiques as they travel to the new homes whose bids beckoned them there.

Saturday, July 29 will be a Red Letter Day for fans of Art Deco sculpture, when two of the movements leading lights offer work in two separate sales on Bidsquare!

The gavel comes crashing down like thunder through the mountains. Some say lightning can't strike the same place twice, but that isn't true - it can and it will - 317 more times.

In the exhibition and collection catalogue Bridge of Dreams, published in conjunction with the 2000 Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Masterpieces of Japanese Art from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Burke credits her mother, Mary Livingston Griggs, for developing her astute eye and passion for coll

Computer monitors, across the country, were lighting up blue. Passionate mouse clicks from Bidsquare drove over 1.3 million dollars in bids during James D.

When it comes to history's great monachs, France's King Louis XV is not held in particularly high regard.

Everything tastes better with freedom on top. As Americans prepare to celebrate 241 years of Independence from the British Empire, we ‘the people’ will joyfully decorate hot dogs, cannonball into pools, ignite explosives, jar lightening bugs and battle on baseball fields.

In 2015, the annual Bidsquare Cares holiday charity auction raised funds for charity:water to bring clean, safe drinking water to people in developing countries.

The Packard Motor Company was built off the back of a snub James Ward Parckard received from Alexander Winton, owner of the Winton Motor Carriage Company.

Ladies & Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones' legendary guitarist, Keith Richards and wife Patti Hansen are unbuttoning their crushed velvet, gold and leather...antique and fine art collection.

Bidders can take a musical trip down memory lane on Saturday, July 1 when Antique Place holds their Gr

When automobiles first appeared, no one believed they had staying power, actually, the vast majority of people saw them as a fad. However, as the technology and use for the motorcar grew, nostalgia and fascination for its transformative history grew along with it.

Russia is a land rich in artistic traditions. From the great men of letters such as Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Pushkin, to artists like Kandinsky, Chagall and Goncharova, it is a country that has always paid great respect to creative pursuits.

Imagine crossing a dark living room, your arm blindly oscillating in search of the nearest light source...click!...you’ve switched on a marvelous patch of bending iridescent-gold tulips or perhaps you’ve ignited a flurry of cream colored dogwood flowers!