For the last six months we’ve been pleased to bring you exciting discoveries and information, both scholarly and anecdotal, on items in the Carlton Hobbs LLC collection. We’d now like to introduce to you the owner of these fascinating pieces.
Carlton Hobbs has been acquiring, researching, conserving and selling museum quality objects and works of art for about 35 years. His career has been dedicated to the discovery and exploration of fine and decorative arts objects, with particular interest in their history and with a focus on pieces of exceptional merit, including specially commissioned items with royal or aristocratic provenance and pieces designed by architects. He has worked actively for many years towards furthering the scholarly interaction and exchange of research between public galleries and the decorative arts trade.
In the year prior to its move to New York, Carlton Hobbs Ltd. was one of the largest privately owned antiques companies in the United Kingdom. The company’s long-standing membership of the British Antique Dealers Association has continued even though Carlton Hobbs LLC is now headquartered in New York, where it is run by Mr. Hobbs and his longtime business partner, Stefanie Rinza, a graduate of Harvard Business School and former employee of McKinsey and Co., in London.
At any one time the company’s inventory encompasses around 650 items, including different types of objects such as lighting, chimneypieces, marble sculptures, paintings, entire paneled rooms and all aspects of furniture.
Carlton Hobbs LLC operates from a landmark building, built by John Russell Pope for Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt in the early 1930s. After circa 40 years of institutional use, we have brought the building back to its original historical splendor in a conservation project, which took over four years.
Specializing in 18th and early 19th century British and Continental furniture and art, Carlton Hobbs has supplied some of the world’s most prestigious museums and private collections including:
The Musée du Louvre
The John Paul Getty Museum
The Rijksmuseum
The National Gallery of Australia
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Musée des Beaux Arts, Dijon
The Bowes Museum
The National Gallery of Scotland
Paxton House
The National Gallery of Greece
Items loaned to important exhibitions are:
The Thomas Hope Table loaned to the Victoria and Albert Museum and to the Bard Institute.
A mirror by Thomas Johnson loaned to the Cooper Hewitt Museum
A highly important Rococo Side Table, Munich ca 1750 loaned to the Cooper Hewitt Museum
Carlton V. Hobbs is the founder and majority shareholder of Carlton Hobbs LLC.
4 Comments
I am astonished by the pure beauty of the objects in the New York rooms. Astonished.
What a lovely compliment! Thank you Catherine!
I love this photo of you. You exude the competence and distinction that is mirrored in your work. I’m happy to have met you.
Beverly Short
What a great photo, you remind me of my late father. Brian Windle its something about you. you can’t forget the past. “My dad would have called, it well I do not know what he would say but something like top man, class.” look and learn Ash. I was just searching for names I remembered from the cave in chelsea / fulham. To see you with your happy dog like my dad with his dog Heidi made me cry.
I know I’m a sad git all the best.
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