Michael Barrymore and Shaun Davies are avid home decorators. Their New York style loft
apartment which recently sold was furnished and decorated in their eclectic international taste with a leaning towards Art Deco. Michael’s return to England has presented us with the opportunity to offer their collection at auction.
Barry Wilkes, who sadly passed away earlier this year, was one of those rare collectors who found his calling early in life and was able to build his extraordinary collection over the course of five decades from the 1960s. As a young man in England Barry was part of the generation for whom the television was a new and exciting invention. His youth was quite different from today’s TV-saturated, multi-channel, MySpace world. Kids in the 1960s huddled around one channel, in colour if they were lucky, and they all watched the same TV shows. The Wilkes collection is vast and encyclopedic; almost every TV related toy is included from the mid sixties to the 1990s.
