Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Second Midlands event for 'Discover Vintage Home Shows'
16 October 2017Such is the ‘must-have’ vibe now for mid-century and vintage furniture and homeware that Keeley Harris’ 'Discover Vintage Home Shows', launched in 2012 at Manchester’s Victoria Baths, can attract 1900 visitors to the one-day fairs held three or four times a year.
Kent dealers show enterprising spirit
16 October 2017Chrissie and John Masters, of the Design Gallery in Westerham, are pictured below in their warehouse in nearby Enterprise Way, Edenbridge, both in Kent.
Lalique launch in Brighton
16 October 2017The Brighton-based Lalique Mascot Collectors’ Club is launching the second volume of 'Unique Lalique Mascots' by Geoffrey Weiner at Love Fairs’ antiques, vintage and collectables fair at Brighton Racecourse on Sunday, October 22.
On the hoof way to offer French antiques
09 October 2017Trading as Hoof Brocante, Adrian Higham is among the most genial of men.
A prize under doctor’s orders
09 October 2017This original case of five silver catheters and three urethral sounds marked for the London maker J Millikan might be a strange offering as a prize outside medical circles.
Fortune’s fair is full of riches
09 October 2017Irish dealer organises events in Dublin with another coming up next month...
Bloomsbury Group haven hosts its first textiles fair
09 October 2017“If you lived here you could make it absolutely divine,” wrote author Virginia Woolf to her sister Vanessa Bell in 1916.
Poster girl for cult film collection
02 October 2017This film poster, below, was designed by the Czech artist Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová for 'Une Femme Douce' (A Gentle Woman) based on a Dostoevsky short story.
Biannual fair held at Burton Court delivers great results, says established decorative dealer
02 October 2017If Julia Brisbane, organiser of Antiques in Tents, ever wanted a publicist for her biannual traditional and decorative antiques fairs at Burton Court, near Leominster, she need look no further than one of her exhibitors, decorative dealer Kieran Mathewson.
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.