John Hardy, a founder member of the Furniture History Society, was a Furniture Consultant at Christie’s London.  Before joining the auction house in the late 1980s, he spent almost thirty years as a curator in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Department of Furniture, where he specialised in the study of English eighteenth-century furniture and decoration.  His collection is eclectic from the remains of the Hatfield State Bed to ‘Shakespeare’s table’.

This visit is now full. 

                                            'Shakespeare's table', The Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton 1884