The Auction House (Season 2 Episode 3) | History Documentary | Reel Truth History
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Roger issues an ultimatum to art valuer Nick, sell half of his pictures or face the consequences - attending a yoga class with his boss. Chelsea's upmarket clientele are on the lookout for the latest trend, animal skulls.
The Auction House is a documentary series that provides a unique glimpse into this extraordinary institution and reveals why its a magnet for eccentric home-owners, antiques buffs, and obsessive collectors alike. Upstairs at Lots Road is the antiques section and whereas the prices for Victorian furniture are in freefall, the Modern auction downstairs (considered to be a little less elegant) is decidedly more lucrative.
The Auction House faces a daily struggle to embrace change and exploit new markets whilst trying to turn a profit at the same time. Over the course of the series, cameras will follow dynamic boss Roger and his loyal staff as they strive to meet the sophisticated tastes of the super-rich. Not only will viewers get to see the highly skilled team in action as they deduce what items are worth more than mere sentiment and sort the privileged from the timewasters, but also meet the obsessive collectors in pursuit of the perfect deal.
As the closed doors of Londons most lavish homes are thrown open, the bidding starts now for your front row seat to the ultimate fly on the wall experience.
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The fact that employees can candidly and openly speak to the cameras about Rodger and that fact that they have been there for many years says something
Great show! Want to see more of this series for sure!
I enjoyed this thanks for the upload.
Thank you so much for uploading a new episode.
Owner: I forgot your name..
Staffmember: my name is Will
Owner: Thank you Gordon
😂😂😂
That is pretty disrepectful to disallow someone like Meg, who is so much a part of the company, to not be included in the big working charity event. Networking with the ladies helps boost their interest in bringing items like the lucrative pocketbooks/purses Meg manages very well. Charity starts at home, $5,000,000 to strangers 000000 to those who labor for you daily. Sad arrogance of the wealthy, if it's not staged for TV purposes by Meg and Roger.
My gag reflexes are often tested when I listen to rich people go on and on about art.
So true. And it's incredible that the richest they are the stranger the taste they have.
And the dirtiest. Look at Craig and michael, both look as if they have Sweden a bath or a shower for weeks
Haven't seen a bath or shower
You mean you don't like phrases such as "bonding with a candelabra"? 😄
Now I understand where "I saw you coming" came from😁
🤣 love that show and so does my German partner who is a rare one that understands both irony and that part of English society. "I'll pick it up in the Landy" 😂
Nice to know LEE-BER-ACHEE' is still being compared to a certain style elsewhere! What an entertainer he was and his appeal is still mentioned! We miss you, 'Lee'. 🇺🇲🇬🇧
Enjoyed it very much. Roger Allam as Narrator... great! :)
Can’t be arsed to check all the comments. Am I the first to point out that being an auction house on ‘Lot Road’ has to be a brilliant coincidence! 🤣🤣
Nick, looking at an artist's canvas brought in by Craig & Michael: "He's got something here. It might be typhoid, but..."
I could spend years in places like this, and the married couple with all the wonderful paintings. I would love to to spend a few days with my wife and them. I could see it being a blast! My wife’s half British and she hasn’t see Her grandmother in over a decade and that would be cool to visit her as well. We joined the military in hopes of traveling and got stuck in the same place for 10yrs.
The commentary is priceless!
yoga = hashish.. lol..love Roger!!!😂😂😂
I could spend years in places like this, and the married couple with all the wonderful paintings.
thousands in art but no dentist visits
Yeah
I really thought this series was recent , then i come across it here with a date going back to 2014 ...
foudo13 The HD 1080P quality.
Art - fine and well but what about great dental care and oral upkeep?
The man is in his 60s and had an accident which knocked teeth out. He mentioned it in another episode.
i love the Graffiti guys work
Michael and Craig have paintings worth millions but can't go see a proper dentist?
LOL, my thoughts exactly!!!
Roger targets Meg, IMO. It's like he knows she's talented enough to get a better job elsewhere, so he hopes by crushing her self-esteem he'll prevent her from thinking bigger & leaving. Meg's work is some of the most profitable at Lots Road--Roger is hoping an insecure Meg will stay at Lots Road longer to keep those profits going to his pocket.
I agree 💯
More please!
Jillian is a crazy breath of fresh air XD
Brilliant something different
Zoe seems high, but man, she is gorgeous.
Lily has really really really really really really really really bad taste in furniture, rugs, antiques, colors etc... how can you literally get it all so wrong😐😬😱 -🍻😂
Jeeeeez he so mean to meg, probably resents that she wouldn't ever consider him.. never😂
Amazing.
It is hard to reconcile this successful business with such a dysfunctional organisation. Its all very well (some of) the figures up whichever percentage year-on-year rather than the potential revenues if they optimise the space, the purchasing protocol and the strength of their long serving staff. This company needed a complete business review by the new GM (after a few weeks organisation analysis) to get to grips with a holistic strategy and a key statistics reporting format and frequency for an ‘absent’ owner. Its an adorable shambles which appears to succeed despite the shortcomings. Bless ‘em!
Amazed how popular dead animals are in Britain.
I know right
Lily, smart bidder. Smart choices to bid on, things that will go up in value....and be passed down in the family. Someone might buy the cat lady craft projects, but, those won't be passed down and beloved. Nick needs to into the homes and see what people have on their walls... and talk to them, what do they LIKE and WANT? It's more simplicity and clean lines. Kim Kardashian doesn't even have paintings on her walls. (and she's considered fairly tacky).
Fab. But that 'Lord of the Manor'. Paleease. Still, love the show.
BUY THESE PEOPLE A HAIR BRUSH!!
The barbar foundation .. ahahahaa
Maybe the Auction house has already done this, but why not simply list all the unsold paintings on their website for sale?🤔
Tabby needs a reality check
To me you either like a painting or you don’t, they buy for the profit most of them. If Craig sorted his hair out he might be taken more seriously
Lily looks like her skulls yikes.
Meg is desperate to get sacked!!!
She brings in such strong numbers though, so he won't fire her✔️
Perhaps Meg could've gotten the chance to meet more clients for her department if she manned the reception.
She wasn't being paid.
07:20 'thats subject to debate at the moment' Somebody isn't getting laid for awhile :D
it is bizarre that roger is into self awareness etc but he is such a horrible boss
Being in the art world myself, a painting is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Creating an environment where people compete with each other over things is definitely one way to get people to over pay for things.
This is what happens when the incompetent stumble into positions of money and/or responsibility. Arrogant elitism grows abundantly.
I’m confused by that tabby cat lady.... she’s like 50 but acts like a child?
ART,! 😂😂😂😂
This auction house is not doing well if 65% of their lots are not selling...
Did not Roger's Yoga teacher teach that his face needs to be completely relaxed while doing Yoga?
Princess Scabby 👸🏻
What would these women look like with no makeup and false eyelashes ?
😝😝😝😝😝😝
I thought the art work would sell. Brake out the stretch pants and get ready for exercise.
There’s something sad about Tabby. She’s in her 50s and still trying to act 20...sad
So many pretentious, plastic people. Love this show though.
Micheal looks rich 💰💰💰
they never mention using internet or using social media to promote for sales
This was in 2011
15:08 they sound so ignorant
Beauty is only skin deep, but that much bleach goes straight to the bone.
They just sound like people from the "upperside" capitol in my country...
Usualy just those fake "upperclass" people i probably just gave a lot less atention than they wished i think.
Frankly i still treat anybody exactly equal, regardless of their fancy money show off.
@@sheep1ewe I've found that truly rich people don't act so condescending, it's the insecure ones that need to make a display of themselves like that.
@@taylorlibby7642
Yes, at least a majority, for example a few of my childhood friends that moved in to the capitol in the 90s. Now they won't even talk to people in the rural areas because they are afraid of the truth will spread among their new fancy plastic fake friends.
It's one thing if one want to look fancy and drive expensive cars one pretend to easily afford (i know for sure it was not at all brand new when he bought it...), but another if one start to act arrogant toward toher people.
People i hawe real respect for is people like the guy who once run a small company here and bought hi's expensive car with money from honest work and a lifetime building up the company, employed local folks, etc. And actualy cared for hi's company. Before he sold the company when hi became to old to work and decided to retire.
Certanly not those people wich wanted to throw out one of my old workmates when hi wisited them because he wanted to buy sailparts to a big sailboat, when hi tould them that it was him who drove the garbage truck... What he did not tould them when hi left with a hidden smile on hi's face is that he owned the truck company...
how any of these employees have their jobs is beyond me. Also, this may be the oddest in the UK, but you all need to come to the US, especially the South, say Houston. Oil money... and taste probably about the same. Our local thrift shop had a full lion stuffed, and it was over a dead deer of some sort. It was so inexpensive, as it's a matter of WHERE WOULD YOU PUT IT. But Roger, we all get here in the US, he needs to fire most of his staff. Your boss may be ODD, but he's the boss. Jobs like this are rare and it's this or the Pound Store checkout.
Well done Roger for sending her home.
That ex model, she needs to grow up and get a job!!
the artist himself 41:45
I thought it was the guy at 40:14......?
Get rid of Evils energy
how the "FEW" live . it is an obscene show of money spent on fripperies.
i hope meg got a better job
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Woman 30+ living with her mum and two cats...death trap, run away.
Rafal Otreba but she’s hawt
Yes, she is, indeed🙂
30+ try 48+ -😂
With those wrinkles, she is not in her 30s.
I would really like to work for someone like Rodger. The young people in his store unfortunately are born in a generation where they are given everything. Thanks to technology. So they're soft skills leaves much to be desired. And I'm 41 and I would never be just sitting in a chair or slouching about in my place of work especially in front of my boss. Regardless, of what our relationship is. A lot of employers like to keep a defined line between professional and personal. And Meg is an example of that reason why. However, Rodger tries to balance that. But when you choose to work for someone that you have a pleasant relationship with. You must always remember that when you are in that place of business and you are there to perform a task you need to be at your station. You need to be looking busy. And you need to respect the wishes of your employer. Meg was very disrespectful and she could definitely use some soft skills training. All of those young people can. Rodger is an amazing boss. He challenges you he has a expectations and unfortunately Young Generation act like they can't break a sweat.
It's known for selling tat.
Gag