DAVID HARVEY can’t believe his luck. Not only is he getting married next month, but his work as an antiques dealer never ceases to thrill him. ‘I rush to go to work because something wonderful happens every day.’
Mr Harvey grew up around antiques: in 1951, the same year in which he was born, his father, Walter, founded W. H. Harvey to sell fine English antique furniture. For a time, however, the young David thought his path would take him elsewhere: ‘I was extremely lucky to get a scholarship to a brilliant school and it stood me in very good stead—I was supposed to go to university to become a chemical engineer. But you know what it is? The antiques trade is strange. If you are born into it, it’s almost as if every time you have a cup of tea, you’re talking antiques, you’re thinking antiques.
