In 1977, when Will Fisher was 11 years old, he emailed Christie’s chairman Bill Brooks asking for a job. From an early age, he would drag his parents to see English country houses, and he wanted nothing more than to work with beautiful antiques . To Fisher’s surprise, Brooks replied and invited him to lunch with the board of directors. “When I left, he said, ‘When you’re 16, if you still have this passion, write to me and I will give you a job in the summer recess,’” Fisher tells host Dennis Scully on the latest episode of The Business of Home Podcast . “And he did that. He was good to his word, and I worked there for three years in a row.”

That experience, combined with early industry mentors like Warner Dailey—as well as odd jobs, including as a forklift driver at an antiques wareho

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