For the last six months we’ve been pleased to bring you exciting discoveries and information, both scholarly and anecdotal, on items in the Carlton Hobbs LLC collection. We’d now like to introduce to you the owner of this fascinating pieces. Carlton Hobbs has been acquiring, researching, conserving and selling museum quality objects and works of art for about 35 years. His career has been dedicated to the discovery and exploration of fine and decorative arts objects, with particular interest in their history. He has worked actively for many years towards furthering the scholarly interaction and exchange of research between public galleries and the decorative arts trade. In the year prior to its move to New York, Carlton Hobbs Ltd was one of the largest privately owned antiques companies in the United Kingdom. The company’s long-standing membership of the British Antique Dealers Association has continued even though Carlton Hobbs LLC is now headquartered in New York. At any one time the company’s inventory encompasses around 650 items, including different types of objects such as lighting, chimneypieces, marble sculptures, paintings, entire paneled rooms and all aspects of furniture. Carlton Hobbs LLC operates from a landmark building, built by John Russell Pope for Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt in the early 1930s. After circa 40 years of institutional use, we have brought the building back to its original historical splendor in a conservation project, which took over four years. Specializing in 18th and early 19th century British and Continental furniture and art, Carlton Hobbs has supplied some of the world’s most prestigious museums and private collections.