H Blairman & Sons Ltd

Address PO Box 6374 London W1A 3UR England Website www.blairman.co.uk Telephone +44 (0)20-7493 0444 Fax +44 (0)20-7495 0766

Expertise Furniture; Regency, later 19th- and early 20th-century Western applied arts Contact Name Martin P Levy FSA Patricia A Levy Opening hours By appointment: Mayfair, London Affiliated to CINOA through

Blairman's is currently run by Martin Levy and his wife Patricia, but was established in 1884, in Llandudno. In those earliest days Harris Blairman dealt in contemporary, as well as old, decorative objects. While in North Wales, Harris Blairman, Martin Levy's great grandfather, also held auctions during the summer season. Harris was joined by his sons Philip and David. It is to Philip that Blairman’s owes its development. At some point, probably during the second decade of the twentieth century, Philip began to specialise in finer antique furniture and works of art. By this stage not only had he set up premises in the northern spa town of Harrogate, but he had also established a showroom in London. During the early decades of the twentieth century, considered wisdom had it that proper antique furniture more or less ceased to exist from any period after about 1800, but Philip Blairman became perhaps the first dealer to make a speciality of the Regency period. In 1949 Martin Levy's father George joined Philip Blairman, a family friend and, from 1951, his father-in-law. Martin joined his father and mother (Philip's daughter Wendy) in the mid-70s, and they enjoyed more than 20 years working together until George's untimely death in 1996; Wendy died in 2006. The firm specialises in nineteenth-century furniture and works of art.