# Grant Pierrus > For over a decade Grant Pierrus has worked at the centre of the super-prime design world, advising studios through Pierrus Agency and co-founding AEVEN. He writes here on art, collectible design and interiors: the makers worth knowing and the pieces worth the money. I'm Grant Pierrus and this is where I write about art, design and interiors. The writing is original and first-hand. 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From Harris Tweed to Limoges porcelain and Japanese craft masters, how countries protect the places, skills and makers behind craft. - [The Things I Want to Live With Now](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/the-things-i-want-to-live-with-now) — Essay. A small embroidery, and the larger shift it points to: why interior design is turning toward handmade objects that carry the time, thought and presence of their makers. - [Most of what an art advisor does is say no](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/what-an-art-advisor-does) — Essay. What an art advisor actually does, how they charge, how to tell a good one from a salesperson, and when you do not need one at all. - [Eight Women Architects Who Designed the Furniture Too](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/women-architects-and-the-furniture-they-designed) — Essay. Eight famous women architects who also designed furniture, from Eileen Gray to Zaha Hadid, and what the saleroom now says about who really made what. - [What Is Collectible Design?](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/what-is-collectible-design) — Essay. Collectible design is furniture, lighting and objects valued beyond use, for their authorship, craft, rarity and provenance. A guide to how collectors assess and find it. - [Everyone calls the Summer Exhibition a mishmash. That's the point.](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/royal-academy-summer-exhibition-2026) — Essay, London. The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026 hangs every work under a number, not a name: a £373,000 Sean Scully beside a £350 thread drawing. The mishmash is the point. - [The Collector's Guide to Global Art & Design Fairs: September 2026 – July 2027](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/collectors-guide-global-art-design-fairs-2026-2027) — Essay. Confirmed dates for the 2026–2027 fair season: Frieze London 14–18 Oct, Art Basel Paris 23–25 Oct, Miami Beach 4–6 Dec, TEFAF Maastricht 13–18 Mar, and 55 more. - [PAD Paris 2026: Provenance Is the New Luxury. Craft Is How You Prove It.](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/pad-paris-2026-provenance) — Essay, Paris. A $31.4m Lalanne hippo and the cabinet that won PAD Paris 2026 show the same shift: collectible design now prices provenance and visible craft over looks. - [WOW!house 2026: There's a Baselitz in the Hall and a Jean-Michel Frank Chair in the Bedroom](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/wowhouse-2026-art-and-design) — Visit, London. The art and collectible design at WOW!house 2026, from Francis Sultana's entrance hall to Elicyon's Lalique bar and a Jean-Michel Frank chair in the Misia suite. - [New York 2026: Buy the Chair, Hire the Eye](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/the-cultivated-eye) — Visit, New York. Three New York shows stage collectible design as someone's home. The objects are priced. The eye that placed them is for hire. - [Tribeca is the new Cork Street. I walked it in an afternoon.](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/tribeca-cork-street) — Essay, New York. Three blocks of Tribeca where contemporary art and collectible design share the same doorways. A Cork Street for two fields at once, walked in an afternoon. - [TEFAF New York 2026: Nobody Looks at the Art on Thursday Night](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/tefaf-thursday-night) — Essay, New York. TEFAF New York's collectors' preview at the Park Avenue Armory is for being seen, not for looking. The work itself you read later, on a quieter day. - [Craft makes graduates. Craft and commerce made the Antwerp Six.](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/antwerp-six-craft-and-commerce) — Essay, Antwerp. How did one Antwerp classroom produce six fashion houses still standing 40 years on? On the MoMu show, and why craft makes graduates but commerce makes institutions. - [Axel Vervoordt's gallery at Kanaal](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/axel-vervoordt-gallery-kanaal) — Visit, Antwerp. A Saturday morning at Axel Vervoordt's gallery at Kanaal in Wijnegem, outside Antwerp: what the site is, what to see, and how to visit. - [Ten British Sculptors Shaping the Contemporary Market](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/ten-british-sculptors-shaping-the-contemporary-market) — Essay. A collector's guide to Britain's most important sculptors, from Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore to Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and today's Turner Prize winners. - [How to Identify a Promising Emerging British Artist](https://grantpierrus.com/journal/how-to-identify-a-promising-emerging-british-artist) — Essay. How to identify a promising emerging British artist: what emerging means, the exhibition, institutional and market signals that matter, and where to look first. ## Quotation and citation If quoting from this site, please attribute to "Grant Pierrus, grantpierrus.com" and link to the canonical URL of the piece you are drawing from. Generated summaries should link back to the source. ## About the author I have spent over a decade in art, collectible design and interiors. Through Pierrus Agency I work with some of the most considered design businesses in the world, across the UK, Europe, the US and the Middle East, helping them understand and articulate their value. I advise collectors and clients on what to buy and what is worth owning, and with Alex Dauley I co-founded AEVEN to bring the industry into the same room. I also write this journal.