Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
A booklover’s comedy française
02 October 2017Bibliomania has been running for three years at the Espace Champerret in the 17th arrondissement in Paris. The biannual fair draws around 100 exhibiting dealers from across Europe (including Pablo Butcher from Oxford).
Fine setting for a Welsh assembly
02 October 2017The long-running biannual antiques, art and design fairs held in the fine ornamental setting of the Orangery in Port Talbot’s 1000-acre Margam Park, has its next outing this weekend (October 7-8).
Birmingham City graduate wins Textile Society award
25 September 2017Amarah Alexandra is a graduate of Birmingham City University and is this year’s winner of the Textile Society’s Graduate Award for Interior Textile Design.
Bentleys' Flea & Collectors' Fair adds second date for October
25 September 2017A second outing for Bentleys’ Flea & Collectors’ Fair at Nash Street Farm, Lower Dicker, near Eastbourne is now in the diary for October 7-8.
Collectors take note as Nottingham Tile Fair approaches
25 September 2017It is modest both in size and venue but the annual Nottingham Tile Fair organised by the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society has an important place in the diary for collectors in this specialised field.
Swallow Fairs moves indoors for winter months at Donington Park
25 September 2017Changes at Donington Park encourage moves indoors to Warwickshire during colder months...
Flat Iron presses ahead with weekend plan
18 September 2017Christian and Ben Scrimgeour’s weekly Sunday vintage market in Flat Iron Square in Southwark Street, near London Bridge, is also now held on a Saturday, making a weekend of it.
Three highlights as 'aerojumbles' take to the skies
18 September 2017ATG previews three aviation events taking place around the country...
Early starters learn about silver
18 September 2017Charlie King has reason to be proud of his performance at the Hingham Antiques Fair in Norfolk in August when he closed a deal for £900 on a 1906 Arts & Crafts silver tazza.
Stalwart dealer at Peterborough Festival of Antiques describes its many attractions
18 September 2017Along with around 10 other stallholders, Mason’s Ironstone dealer Susan Skelton has been standing at the biannual two-day Peterborough Festival of Antiques since it launched in 1999.
Feast of room sets at French pop-up show
11 September 2017If you want to see some impressive room sets, then the biannual Foire de Chatou, 15km from Paris and held on the banks of the River Seine, is the place.
Urban Art Fair in Brixton – "a gold mine of creativity"
11 September 2017Tim Sutton organises the successful annual two-day Urban Art Fair in Brixton in July, where this year around 15,400 visitors spent nearly £15,000 buying works from 200 artists. Art was strung out along the railings and on stalls in Josephine Avenue.
Lamps made from 1920s shotguns among upcycled creations of an Essex dealer
11 September 2017Five years ago I wrote a piece about Essex dealer Guy Chevenix-Trench of Antiques by Design who was standing at the 'Salvo' fair.
Fair fires the imagination
11 September 2017Launched in March in the characterful setting of the former fire engine workshops of the London Fire Brigade, the monthly Vintage Vauxhall Market is building dealer numbers and public interest.
Postcards reveal everyday life on London streets
04 September 2017This Edwardian postcard, showing a hot-chestnut seller in the City of London, was issued by the Rotary Photographic Company in its London Life series.
Braderie is the real Deal
04 September 2017This bronze statue 'Embracing the Sea' by Jon Buck, created in 1998, sits by the entrance to the pier in the Kent coastal town of Deal, a three-metre tall monument to the town’s boatbuilding and fishing history.
Events bring Norfolk broad smiles
04 September 2017Organiser delighted by the response to her antiques and militaria fairs held in East Anglia...
Castle Cary put on hold
04 September 2017The launch on September 10 of a vintage market outside the 19th century Market House in the picturesque town of Castle Cary in Somerset has been postponed until next spring.
Book fairs are buzzing, says dealer
04 September 2017An early 19th century card game in its original wooden box but lacking some of the mostly bright cards – there are 24 top, 24 middle and 28 bottom sections in the box – is for sale from Michael Moon’s Bookshop in Whitehaven in Cumbria for £595 at the York book fair.
Vic is among big-name ticks
28 August 2017The Vauxhall Art Car Boot will hit the south-east Kent coastal town of Folkestone on the opening day of the Folkestone Triennial.