PHILIP TAUBENHEIM

Philip has spent virtually all his life in the antiques business, growing up with parents who successfully ran an Antiquarian bookshop in Burford, Oxfordshire, for over 25 years. On leaving school he joined a firm of general practice land agents but soon discovered his true vocation to be amongst chattels in the Auction Department, progressing to Wotton under Edge in 1983 to run the Auction Rooms for Luce Panes, who were subsequently bought out by the Nationwide Building Society. In turn, in 1992 he and two other former partners bought the Fine Arts Division from them. Now Chairman of the Company, the business has expanded greatly but without losing the approach on which it was built. Philip has been a regular contributor to the BBC Antiques Roadshow, has appeared on Going for a Song, has been a lecturer on the Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, as well as undertaking many evening talks and charity sales for fund raising organisations throughout the area.