A day in the life: Will Fisher 

Will Fisher, owner of Pimlico Road furniture and antiques showroom Jamb, gives us an insight into a typical working day.

Antique dealer Will Fisher is the owner of Jamb Ltd, whose showroom on the Pimlico Road is a treasure trove of spectacular chimneypieces and English and Irish country house furniture.

Will, who has an excellent reputation internationally in the trade, works with highly skilled craftsmen to create the finest reproductions. He talks us through a typical day in his working life:

9am
I’m not a nine-to-five sort of person. My job requires me to live a very reactive existence. If I’m not in our Pimlico Road showroom, I might start the morning at our Wandsworth workshop, talking to the lads about the progress of our projects – usually a chimneypiece. We’ve got eight people down there, and about seven in the showroom. We’ve just done an elaborate project for a French chateau, replicating two 20ft high gothic chimneypieces from a drawing.

11am
I get told off if I end up stopping for a McDonald’s, but it’s the only peace and quiet I get. It’s also an ongoing joke with people that they never see me without the phone glued to my ear.

Midday
Back at the Pimlico Road showroom. One of the amazing things is that you never know who’s going to walk through the door – rock stars, movers and shakers in the finance world, Hollywood actors. This part of the world is a glamorous area, but it’s cheesy to name names.

Lunchtime
I'm usually so hectic, I skip lunch or eat something horrendous on the hoof. I don’t often have lunches with linen napkins. The real pleasure is in the buying, but the world is so accessible by internet now that I do a lot of my work from my desk. I spend my life making tea for my staff and clients as we look through auction catalogues.

2.30pm
I have a meeting with a carver who’s making the first pattern for one of our products. Whatever I set about doing, I’m invariably distracted.

4.30pm
Suddenly you’re into New York time, then LA time, so the last chunk of the day is spent working on American projects. I’m everyone’s slave from the start to the end of the day.

5.30pm
Tonight I’m leaving early to see my family, because I’m off to China to look at foundry work we’ve got going on. It’s rare that I leave before 6pm. By that time, I’ll have made 20-30 cups of tea. Anyone would think that’s my real passion!

Jamb Ltd, 107A Pimlico Road, London SW1W 8PH