Henry House holds the position of Deputy Chairman, Furniture and Si♉ngle owner sales for the UK and North America. He has over thirty years of experience working in English and European Furniture he joined Sotheby’s as head of the English Furniture department in 2006. Prior to that he worked at Christie’s in London and New York office, which gave an invaluable insight into the American market and clients.

Henry has been fortunate to work on some incredible collections in his career, the sales from Chatsworth, Castl♑e Howard and works from the Duke of Northumberland have been amongst the many highlights and most recently the Aso O. Tavitian Collection. In 2010 he established a new world record for a piece of English furniture when offering the Harrington Commode, a masterpiece by Th🐼omas Chippendale. Following a seventeen-minute bidding battle he brought the hammer down at £3.8m, eclipsing the previous record by over a million pounds.

His focused expertise is in English furniture of the 18th and 19th centuries with a particular passion for the mid-18th century, a time of great development in English cabinet-making sparked by the increasing wealth in the country and the tremendous growth of the English country house. It is the collecting patte𓆏rns of the great patrons of this period who were not only commissioning pieces, but were also actively collecting from across Europe as part of the ‘Grand Tour’ which greatly intrigues him and which continues to be reflected by the great collectors of more recent times.