Dealers

With the recent retirement of Allard Schierenberg and Jeanne van Bruggen, the remaining stock of Dutch dealership Antiquariaat Junk will be sold at auction.

The Private Library Book Company is offering for sale online the library of John Russell Taylor (1935-2025), a collection of over 20,000 books, many by the renowned author and critic himself.

Dealer and mountaineer is fascinated by both the peak in real life and in a Doré depiction of first ascent

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the monthly Dorking Halls Antiques & Decorative Arts Fair, founded by the late Margaret Brown.

The Midcentury Modern team, aka Lucy Ryder Richardson, Petra Curtis and Tanya Pateman, are launching a pop-up on Saturday, June 13, with 40 dealers at a very cool venue in west London.

Ruth Domanski and Shauna Donaldson launched an antiques brocante in the walled garden at the Grade I-listed Grantham House, a National Trust townhouse on the outskirts of the Lincolnshire town of the same name, in 2023.

The world of Islamic art has lost one of its most beloved sons with the passing of Bashir Mohamed, a true visionary in his field who possessed the intuitive spirit of a hunter and the soul of a historian.

Joan B Mirviss uses Asia Week New York to launch its spring exhibition Six Celestials, featuring works by modern artists who laid the groundwork for contemporary Japanese clay work.

Grays Antiques in Mayfair, close to Bond Street tube station on Davies Street, is one of London’s largest indoor art and antiques markets.

Romanian artist Nafir Boaba (1929-2006) is represented in several works at the exhibition European Visions.

An original cold-painted bronze figure by Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947), renowned for his theatrical Art Deco dancer sculptures of 1920s Paris, is among the standout pieces at the upcoming Petersfield Antiques Fair.

The Salon du Dessin, France’s annual fair devoted to drawings and works on paper, is an event which regularly brings an international influx of drawing afficionados to the French capital.

A new design and antiques venture will debut at the Bath Decorative Antiques Fair with a Grand Tour– inspired selection that includes a pair of hand-carved marble obelisks with striking malachite detailing.

The now Grade II-listed Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in east London will reopen its doors this weekend for the first time in 13 years – which is good news also for Go East Vintage, aka Louisa Ware and Onur Kurtdere.

I was interested to read the article by Joan Porter on Madonna’s visit to Margate – at the invite of Tracey Emin who does so much for the town (Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres, ATG No 2731).

Forget Paddington Bear. Think Winnie-the-Pooh “I am a bear of very little brain…”, whose 100th anniversary this year celebrates the first outing of the gentle bear and his beloved friends including the “small and anxious” Piglet.