White Glove Moving Service for Antiques, Art and Fine Furniture

Time, and who is carrying. A standard move is priced on getting a household from one address to another. This is priced on the pieces — how they are wrapped, who lifts them, what order they come off the van, and where they end up in the room. Nothing gets stacked to save a trip. It is the difference between a piece arriving and a piece arriving intact.

Yes. Paintings, framed works, mirrors and sculpture are ordinary days for us. They travel in acid-free tissue and breathable wrapping, never plastic that traps damp against a surface, and in a crate when the piece deserves one. What we do not do is climate-controlled or air freight. If a work truly needs a temperature-controlled vehicle, we will tell you so and point you at a fine-art shipper.

Yes, and it is a good part of what we do. Collecting from salerooms and shops across Britain and Europe is where this company started. Collection deadlines, paperwork, checking a lot against its description before it goes on the van — none of that is new to us. We can take in several lots over weeks, hold them in our own warehouse, and deliver when you are ready for them.

We are West Sussex based and most of our work is here. But a job that starts in Sussex goes wherever it needs to — London regularly, and nationwide when the move calls for it. Our founder spent years working with shops in Chelsea and across the capital, so London is familiar ground. We run into Europe too. Outside Sussex, ask rather than assume.

Yes — goods-in-transit and public liability cover on every job, with optional full damage insurance for an extra 10% of your invoice total. Your written quote spells out exactly what applies to your move.

No. We take full moves and collections, not one-off drops. A single chair going across the country is a courier job and there are firms set up for exactly that who will do it faster and for less. Where we earn our place is a whole property, a dealer’s collection, a designer’s install, or a group of lots that need collecting together.

Yes — that is the whole point. Your things come into the property and into the room you choose, get unwrapped, built where they need building, and put where you want them. Floors, frames and banisters are protected before anything comes through, and the packaging leaves with us. If something needs hanging or fixing, say so at the survey and we will bring the right crew and kit.

Yes, in our own warehouse rather than somebody else’s. Items are listed against your name and stay with the crew who collected them, which spares them the extra handling that causes most damage. It is the usual arrangement for dealers buying across several sales, and for designers whose furniture lands long before the room is ready.

A few days for a survey. For the move itself it depends on size, access at both ends and how far it travels, and we would rather give you a date we can hold than a hopeful one. If you are working to an auction collection deadline, a completion or an exhibition get-in, say so at the start. That is the date everything else gets planned around.

Most moves are a mix, and that is usually the sensible answer. The everyday contents go as a standard house removal and the pieces that need it get the white-glove treatment inside the same job, same van, same crew. You are not paying a premium rate on the garden furniture. We work out the split at the survey and price it clearly.