Nobody knows when an evening sale ends. The cars are outside either way.
Sale weeks and fair weeks compress a year of client attention into a few days, in two square miles of London where no car can legally wait. We plan for that, and we carry people, not pictures.
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What usually goes wrong
The problems particular to sale and fair weeks
- An evening sale that could finish at a quarter past eight or at half past ten, with forty guests all wanting a car at whichever it turns out to be
- King Street and New Bond Street at six in the evening, where a car cannot stand and a client in black tie will not walk to Piccadilly
- Fair weeks in Regent's Park, where every car in London seems to arrive at the same ten minutes and the set down point is nowhere near the entrance
- A visiting specialist doing house calls at five addresses across London and Surrey in a day, to look at a collection rather than to move it
- Clients whose interest in a particular lot, or simply their presence in the room, is nobody's business
- The continental weeks, Maastricht, Basel, Paris, Venice, where your own regular London arrangement is of no help at all
How we work with the trade
We carry people. The art travels with specialists
We are a chauffeur company. We move clients, specialists and staff. Works, consignments and anything needing a climate-controlled vehicle, a condition report or a customs document travel with fine art shippers, and we are happy to work alongside yours on a day when both are needed.
A sale night is run backwards from the moment the room empties. Cars stand on an agreed holding point rather than outside the saleroom, a coordinator on our desk follows the lot list, and vehicles are called forward in order so that the street is never blocked and no client is left standing on the pavement looking for a number plate. Each guest is met by name where you want them met, at the door, in the lobby or at a side entrance.
For the fairs we work off the same logic. Set down is agreed with whoever is running the traffic plan on the day, the chauffeur parks away from the site, and the client calls the car back rather than waiting in a queue of idling vehicles. Our own cars and chauffeurs are in London and Manchester, with a trusted global network everywhere else. For Maastricht, Basel, Paris, Miami and Venice we arrange the cars locally through operators we know, run by the same coordinator here, and we arrange private jet charter when the week only works by air.
The London ground
Two square miles of very bad parking
- St James'sKing Street and aroundChristie's and the old master dealers. Narrow, one way in parts, and impossible to wait on.
- MayfairNew Bond Street and Berkeley SquareSotheby's and Bonhams on New Bond Street, Phillips in Berkeley Square. Loading restrictions most of the day.
- KnightsbridgeMontpelier StreetBonhams Knightsbridge, in a residential grid with permit bays and almost no room to stand.
- Regent's ParkFrieze London and Frieze Masters14 to 18 October 2026, with a managed traffic plan and set down away from the entrances.
Fair and sale dates change every year. Each event we cover has its own page with the current edition's dates.
What the trade books
Across the selling calendar
Sale nights
Guests brought in, met by name and taken home whenever the room finally empties.
Frieze week
Regent's Park, the Mayfair gallery week around it, and the dinners in between.
Collector house calls
A specialist and a car for the day, four or five addresses, no rush at any of them.
Private views and openings
Cork Street, Dover Street, Bury Street, and a late finish with cars still there.
Arrivals from abroad
Clients met inside the terminal, or at a private terminal with the tail number tracked.
The continental fairs
Maastricht, Basel, Paris and Venice, with cars arranged there and aircraft when needed.
What the client office gets
The things that matter in a compressed week
- One coordinator for the whole week, who has the guest list and the running order rather than a set of unconnected bookings
- Cars held off the street, called forward in sequence, so the saleroom entrance stays clear
- Chauffeurs who wait as long as it takes, and are briefed to expect an uncertain finish
- Guests met by name at the point you choose, rather than a driver telephoning a client who is still in the room
- Plain dark cars with no branding, no cards and no conversation about who went where
- A single set of journeys reconciled afterwards against your week, not thirty separate receipts
The commercial side
Billed the way a client department works
- Charged toThe house, the gallery or the clientYour account, or direct to a collector, journey by journey.
- Your referenceOn every journeyA sale code, a fair, a department or a client name, carried to the invoice.
- ConfidentialityAssumed, and in writing if you want itWe will sign your non-disclosure agreement before a week is even described.
- CoverageLondon and Manchester, and the fair circuitOur own cars in both cities, arranged cars elsewhere through operators we know.
In confidence
Tell us about the week
The dates, roughly how many clients and staff are moving, which addresses matter and whether anyone is arriving by private aircraft. We will come back with how we would run it.
Prefer to talk? +44 2030 048300 or WhatsApp, at any hour.
Questions people ask
From houses, galleries and collectors
Will you transport a work of art?
No. We carry people. Works should travel with a fine art shipper, and we will work alongside yours on the same day without getting in each other's way.
What happens if the sale runs two hours long?
Nothing, from your point of view. The chauffeurs are briefed for an open ended finish and our desk follows the lot list.
Can you cover Frieze week?
Yes. Tell us early. See Frieze London for how the week works on the ground.
Can you arrange cars in Basel or Maastricht?
Yes, through operators we know there, with the booking and the bill staying with us here.
Can a client be collected from a private terminal?
Yes, at Luton, Farnborough, Biggin Hill, London Oxford and elsewhere. See private jet transfers.
Will our client's name appear anywhere?
Only where it has to. Journeys can run under a code name and chauffeurs are told the minimum they need.
One contact, wherever you are