Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Bazaars coming up in Wiltshire and Somerset
25 February 2019Vintage millinery dealer Claire Powell and textiles dealer Liz van Hasselt are business partners in the long-running Vintage Bazaars in Wiltshire and Somerset.
Southport furniture dealer whose business is lifted by Runway Monday fair
18 February 2019A former cake factory site near Southport is the base for dealer Brett Griffiths, who is also one of the big fans of IACF’s fairs.
East Anglian dealer to run local fair
18 February 2019Kate Lee started the popular biannual antiques street market in the Suffolk town of Beccles 10 years ago and has now taken over a local monthly antiques and collectors’ fair.
Top choices at Wilton House fair
18 February 2019More than 40 top dealers will set out their vetted stands at the annual long-running Wilton House Art and Antiques Fair.
Fairs form a natural approach to source stock
18 February 2019Two owners of antiques and vintage businesses who buy extensively from fairs and markets in the UK are showcased here.
Worcestershire Antiques Fair includes array of ceramics dealers and porcelain society seminar
11 February 2019Coming to the Two Cs two-day Worcestershire Antiques Fair at the Chateau Impney Hotel are ceramics dealers offering porcelain pieces, including Derby, from the 17th to 20th centuries.
Organiser who goes to town for street events
11 February 2019As ACVR Events, Jackie Edwards launched her first antiques and decorative arts street fairs in the Hampshire town of Romsey four years ago.
Knebworth fair offers wide range to suit glass collectors
11 February 2019This one-off retirement day piece (below) is by glass-maker Richard Golding, founder of Okra Glass, who has been involved with the art for more than 30 years.
Pub pair now serving up antiques at Diss centre
04 February 2019Husband-and-wife team Henrietta Lewis and Alan Knight, both keen antique and vintage collectors, opened the Diss Emporium in the pretty Norfolk town nine months ago.
Ephemera trade takes a seasonal turn
04 February 2019This Valentine’s card, below, by the French artist Xavier Sager was posted from Finland in 1917 to an address in Norway. It is priced at £15 from Val Jackson-Harris, a dealer in printed ephemera from the 18th-19th and early 20th centuries.
Indulge your fashion tastes with vintage fairs that coincide with London Fashion Week
04 February 2019'London Fashion Week' hits the city from February 15-19 in a dizzying whirl of catwalk shows from 250 designers at top venues.
Bobbin in to Honiton fair
28 January 2019The antiques-rich town of Honiton in Devon is famed for its bobbin lacemaking since the 16th century.
Three salvage solutions: a trio of upcoming fairs
28 January 2019Buyers are spoilt for choice during May and early June when three decorative and salvage fairs will be running in the UK, all in interesting outdoor settings. Here is a short focus on them.
What’s on this weekend: February 2-3, 2019
28 January 2019Fairs to visit this weekend in Didcot and Dorset.
Dealers thrive in a verdant Welsh setting
21 January 2019The National Botanic Gardens of Wales spreads out into 500-plus acres at Llanarthne in the Carmarthenshire countryside and boasts a spectacular structure designed by Norman Foster: the largest single-span glasshouse in the world.
Ex-courthouse venue in Pontefract judged to be just right
21 January 2019Former courthouse in West Yorkshire opens as antiques centre and community hub.
Fair back at the Mills
21 January 2019Back by popular demand, says Caroline Brown of Rose & Brown Vintage, is her biannual Vintage Furniture and Home Fair held in the Old Woollen Room at the atmospheric Sunny Bank Mills, a former textiles mill in Farsley near Leeds.
Strong field at racecourse fairs
14 January 2019As testament to the popularity of Love Fairs’ antiques and vintage events at both Brighton and Lingfield racecourses, the waiting list for both is in the hundreds, reports organiser Donny Mann.
On the Devon antiques trail in Ashburton
14 January 2019Edinburgh offers an antiques trail as does Carmarthenshire in Wales. Now it’s the turn of Ashburton, a small town in south Devon on the edge of Dartmoor with a population of 4000.
It’s time for a clock and watch fair venue change
14 January 2019Time has moved on for events at the National Motorcycle Museum in Solihull organised by Liz and Carl Barnes of Time Fairs.