It was announced today that Norman Adams, the venerable Knightsbridge antiques dealer, will close up the end of this month. This saddens me more than any of the other bad economic news we’ve had to date. Admittedly, sentiment is mostly to do with it, as Norman Adams was the first showroom we ever visited in London, and, in some manner or other, we’ve tried to pattern ourselves on the Norman Adams model ever since. Quality through and through, we’ve been fortunate enough to handle material that had once graced their premises, and we always considered it a selling point if the piece still bore the gallery’s ivorine label.
