Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Around 100 dealers to attend 'saintly' Paris brocante
11 June 2018In Paris later this month? As well as marvelling at the beauties of the vast and ornate 18th century Église St Sulpice in Paris’ 6th arrondissement, pictured below, with its chapel murals by Delacroix, you can peruse antiques delights on offer at the Place St Sulpice Antiquités Brocante.
Harleston is streets ahead
04 June 2018The pretty market town of Harleston in Norfolk’s Waveney Valley is getting ready for its busy annual community-led antiques and vintage street market, now in its fifth year.
West Somerset mansion with an impressive hall hosts antiques fair for the second time
04 June 2018One of the many beauties of the Grade I-listed Crowcombe Court in the Quantock Hills of west Somerset is the Great Hall.
Anonymous fair firmly on the map
04 June 2018Church Street in Marylebone, north London, looks like a good place to be on Sunday, June 24, with the return of the second annual Antiques Anonymous fleamarket which last year welcomed 5000 visitors.
Organiser expands event from Hampshire to West Sussex
04 June 2018Jackie Edwards knows all about crowds, as she is in her third year of running a busy biannual antiques and vintage fair in five indoor/outdoor locations throughout the market town of Romsey in Hampshire.
Story of French stove innovator and his burning ambition
28 May 2018From dealers Charlie Bates and Matthew Nellist of Jeffrey and Day comes a story about Jean-Baptiste Godin, a 19th century French industrialist and enlightened innovator.
York fair organiser says Friday and Saturday is a better format for business
28 May 2018Morgan Denyer of Rose Antiques Fairs explains the thinking behind the date changes to his fairs at York Racecourse...
New fair organiser with family values
28 May 2018It’s all in the family for new fair organiser Emma Sheridan. Her father Gary Sheridan is GNB Fairs, with antiques and collectors’ fairs running at eight venues in the UK, including three in Suffolk and one at the Dover Cruise Terminal.
IACF takes over Bingley Hall fair
21 May 2018IACF is to take over the running of the antiques and collectors’ fairs held in Bingley Hall at the Staffordshire County Showground.
Gypsy caravans, shepherds’ huts, steam train – and salvage
21 May 2018Fawley Hall fair running instead of Salvo has plenty of varied attractions.
Fair is back at Bayfield Hall
21 May 2018The second annual antiques fair at Bayfield Hall in north Norfolk takes place on Sunday, June 10.
Homage to the teddy bear
21 May 2018Described as a ‘homage to all things teddy bear’, the second Teddy Bear Festival runs in the Sculpture Gallery and grounds at Woburn Abbey.
It’s the time again for clocks and watches
21 May 2018The second annual clock and watch fair to be held at Upton Hall, HQ of the British Horological Institute, will run on Sunday, June 3.
Be an antiques tourist in the north thanks to new guide
14 May 2018Dealer Anthony Bucke has been in the trade for 35 years and opened an antiques centre in the Somerset town of Crewkerne in 2012.
Fine weekend despite weather at Newbury Showground
14 May 2018“We’ve had two-day antiques and collectors’ fairs at the Newbury Showground before but not on a Saturday and Sunday – the weather was downright miserable but we had a really successful first weekend,“ said IACF’s Grant Nicholas, talking about the recent weekend event on April 28-29.
Artist admires wonderful wood
14 May 2018Sculptor Patrick Seaman loves wood, most specifically the reclaimed sort. He has worked on installations in Sicily and Abu Dhabi as well as creating a giant wooden staircase in London’s Wandsworth Park.
Jewellers enjoy the Frock Me fun
14 May 2018Matthew Adams is moving into bling – well, vintage and antique jewellery from the Georgian period onwards.
Fishing at a perilous angle
07 May 2018Taken in June 1905 on the River Helmsdale in Sutherland, the very northern and wildest tip of Scotland, is this image, below, of two men fishing.
Size fits snugly in Eridge Park
07 May 2018Hetty Purbrick and Caroline Zoob believe that small is beautiful. That’s not to say that the annual Decorative Living Fair in Eridge Park they launched 13 years ago is in any way under-used – they simply know that size isn’t everything.
Venue with a vice den past now hosts a new vintage and retro fair
07 May 2018The latest venue in south London for the vintage and retro fairs run by Alison Davis and Alan Old as So Last Century has an interesting history, to say the least.