Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Hop to it in Nottingham
10 December 2018A regular stallholder at Arthur Swallow Fairs is Liam Woodgates, director of the Hopkinson Vintage Antique and Art Centre in Nottingham, where a corner display is pictured below.
Be festive in France: two fairs in Paris before Christmas and another in Bordeaux
03 December 2018A trip to France before Christmas to buy unusual gifts is always a good plan. Here are three antiques and vintage brocantes to visit: two well-known weeklies in Paris and a biannual event in Bordeaux.
Scarf collector reflects on eight years of east London vintage fairs
03 December 2018Cary Whitley has been running her biannual Love Vintage brocantes in June and December in Wanstead, east London, for eight years, with the next on Saturday, December 8.
Where to shop in style: Three antiques fairs in fine settings including Ludlow Castle in Shropshire
03 December 2018Events at Ludlow Castle, St Stephen's Church and Hodson Hall
Fifty exhibitors at Larmer Tree Gardens as brocante blossoms
26 November 2018Sally Knott has been running the biannual two-day Dorset Brocante for three years at two venues: in August at Deans Court, Wimborne, and in the autumn at Larmer Tree Gardens, near Salisbury.
Salvaged shipwreck items create a niche dealing field at Ally Pally
26 November 2018IACF is expecting a buoyant antique and collectors’ fair at Alexandra Palace on Sunday, December 2, including items sourced from shipwrecks.
Art Fair East – Norwich sets world view
26 November 2018For its fourth year, Art Fair East comes to Norwich.
Page turns over new Devon leaf
26 November 2018News from Antiques on High, the antiques centre saved for the city of Oxford when it was bought by antique furniture dealer Vincent Page last year, alerted via a tweet about a story in ATG.
Couple bank on a centre venture in Pontypool
19 November 2018Two years ago we featured ex-paramedic Allun Davies and his business selling vintage luggage in the Gwent town of Pontypool.
Jewels sparkle above the vintage array in Kensington
19 November 2018The range of choice in antique and vintage jewellery makes for ideal one-off special presents – try the dedicated 30-dealer jewellery fair pictured below, with baubles from the Georgian period onwards.
Two events check in at the Holiday Inn venue
19 November 2018Antiquarian and out-of-print book and ephemera collectors will be in heaven on the weekend of December 1-2 with two fairs at the Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury in Coram Street.
Frocks and hats make it a party in Clerkenwell
12 November 2018It’s party time at Savitri Coleman’s Clerkenwell Vintage Fashion Fair in the Freemason’s Hall, Great Queen Street, on Sunday November 25.
Art Deco wares are splendid in Spalding
12 November 2018Our picture below from a past event shows that Art Deco is quite often a speciality at Polly and Peter Trapmore-Shaw’s antiques and collectors fairs held in the Lincolnshire town of Spalding.
How Holt fair holds the attention
12 November 2018Decoratives dealer Marcus Potts is the enthusiastic organiser of the well-regarded biannual Antiques at the Holt Fair which runs at the Holt Hotel, Steeple Aston.
Recently released Queen film helps renew interest for vinyl collectors
12 November 2018One of the busiest of Naomi Knight’s monthly markets at the Listed Green Park Station in Bath is her Christmas Vintage and Antiques Market.
IACF report Bingley Hall bonus
05 November 2018IACF’s antiques and collectors’ fair held in the Bingley Hall at the Staffordshire Showground in October fielded around 140 stalls, according to the organiser.
B2B fair in Edinburgh all booked up
05 November 2018“We are full up at our antiques and vintage fair in Edinburgh later this month with 250 tables booked,” said Helen Yourston, director of B2B Events.
Big London Flea: from big screen to the big sell
05 November 2018The monthly Big London Flea is located on the ground floor of a former cinema and describes itself as “London’s largest indoor market in the busy heart of Dalston”.
Warm welcome at Lucy Haywood's West Sussex brocantes
05 November 2018Lucy Haywood organises country brocantes at assorted venues in West Sussex.
Details announced for the Chelsea brocante revived by Matthew Adams
05 November 2018As we announced in April, fair organiser Matthew Adams of Adams Antique Fairs is relaunching an event at Chelsea Town Hall this month which he last held in 2005.