Sotheby's Talks

In this episode, House & Garden’s Pratyush Sarup is joined by Dan Jackson, Head of Historic Buildings for Historic Royal Palaces alongside Julie Montagu, Countess of Sandwich and Custodian of Mapperton House, and Malcolm Winyard, Interior Designer who worked on Mapperton House.

Together they discuss how historic houses are conserved, refreshed and reimagined through skilled craft, from upholstery, joinery and specialist finishes to textile conservation and restoration. They explore how owners, designers and makers decide what to preserve, what to revive and what to reinterpret, and what it takes to keep a great house alive without freezing it in time. 

This podcast was recorded at Sotheby’s London in May 2026.

Cover Image Credit © Historic Royal Palaces

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In this episode, James Haldane, Executive Editor of Sotheby’s Magazine is joined by Daniel Carpenter, Executive Director of Heritage Crafts alongside Lucy Brown, CEO of the Hugo Burge Foundation and Louis Elton, Founder of Nations of Artisans and the British Cræft Prize.

Together, they discuss the future of craft and explore what it takes to keep craft alive in the modern world. Which skills matter most, and why? How can they be sustained, reimagined and made viable for the future? And what is lost when forms of knowledge rooted in the hand begin to disappear?

This podcast was recorded at Sotheby’s London in May 2026.

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In this episode, Veronique Forge-Karibian, advisor to the Milken Institute, a non-partisan economic thinktank, is joined by Natalie Livingstone, author of The Women of Nuremberg, alongside Catherine Ostler, author of The Renoir Girls, and Julia Fishel, Sotheby’s Head of Modern Day Sales. Together, they explore the intersections of art, identity and memory across some of the most turbulent chapters of European history. From Impressionist Paris and the salons of the Belle Époque to the Nuremberg Trials in the aftermath of the Second World War, the conversation traces the lives of historically-overlooked women navigating and shaping cultural transformation and political upheaval.

Cover image credit: Imperial War Museum 

This podcast was recorded at Sotheby’s London in May 2026.

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In this episode, we explore the question: What does it mean to be an icon, and how do icons endure or transform over time? Recorded at Sotheby’s Hong Kong in May 2026, the panel brings together fashion designer Greg Lauren and Nicolas Chow, Chairman of Sotheby’s Asia, for a conversation on art, fashion, and cultural memory, moderated by CC Xichu Wang, Maison Director of Sotheby’s Asia. From ancient sculptures and fragments to garments stitched from salvaged materials, the discussion reflects on imperfection, patina, and the human stories embedded in objects. Together, they consider how icons are created, deconstructed, and reimagined — and how they reveal new layers of meaning.

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In this episode, Curatorial and Collections Director at the National Portrait Gallery Flavia Frigeri is joined by Sotheby’s Chairman of Contemporary Art, Europe, Claudia Dwek, and International Specialist of Contemporary Art, Lisa Stevenson. Their discussion traces Fontana’s radical interrogation of space and his influence in the 1960s across Europe through German gallerists, museums and beyond.

This podcast was recorded at Sotheby’s London in March 2026.

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