Just over a year since its launch, Stamford Auction Rooms is staging its first estate sale on May 27.
Jessica Wall, who started the firm in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire, says an unpromising “run-down three storey semi-detached house near Rushton, Northamptonshire” proved, as so often in these situations, to be hiding a treasure trove of items.
“The house belonged to the late Ken Kirkwood, an incredible illustrator and photographer and an avid collector of mid-century modern art, design and architecture,” she says.