A rt and antiques dealers, the higher up you go, are an intriguing and odd lot. Their knowledge of the markets takes them into the loftiest corridors of power where wealth determines the ultimate collectors.
Dealers become indispensable to personal passions.
Dealers often live more by their wits, driven to sell and buy again to sell again, often juggling to keep the gilded ship afloat. As business people, unlike their corporate counterparts, however, they too think along the lines of a deal and not the bigger picture. Anna and Brian Haughton , an Anglo-Irish couple from London, are entrepreneurs in this world who see the big picture. They have been important dealers out of London in ceramics for the past thirty-five years, but their activities as producers of the Arts and Antiques Fairs at the 67th Street Armory has turned them into major entrepreneurs, the dealers' dealers. In the past decade they have transformed New York's position in the international art and antiques scene with their fairs.