He was elderly and looked like more of a period piece than anything in the auction room.
But what we're doing is offering an alternative to the auction room.
The 250-seat auction room is always filled, and sometimes people are turned away.
It seemed that most of the people in the auction room had come here to bid on her.
The fact that anything can (and does) happen in the auction room makes these sales the art world's most popular sport.
I want to qualify for something in the art world, a gallery or auction room.
A few of these he could recognize as having been at the auction room.
The auction room, in those days, was a private place.
"I nearly couldn't squeeze into the auction room last week there were so many people."
He wanted to be sure that all was well in the auction room.