Dealers

For this year’s edition, the Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair (BRAFA) will be celebrating its 70th outing.

Mayfair cancellation leaves Battersea to spearhead 2025 in-person events

Former railway stations – plus one still active – can be ideal sites to locate antiques businesses

Dualco Promotions is launching an antiques and collectors’ fair in Yorkshire to complement the other three events the organisers run in the county.

Philip Crosthwaite is no slouch when it comes to marketing initiatives for his monthly Easton Antiques Fairs now held at Easton College, in Norwich which is fully booked each month with 140 dealers.

Go East Vintage was launched in London in 2021 by Louisa Ware and Onur Kurtdere and in the subsequent years their pop-up fleamarkets have included the Hackney Brewery and venues in Stratford, Leyton and Bermondsey.

Covid lockdowns forced a rethink for a businessman focused on providing meals at music festivals

After 10 years, London Art Week (LAW) has folded. Citing changes in the UK capital’s art market and financial shortfalls, the board said the December showing of the twice-yearly festival of traditional art will be the last

Emma Rutherford admits to being “a very boring child” who became fascinated by history at the age of 10 or 11.

Following on from last week’s comments from three fairs and markets organisers on how 2024 has been for their businesses, here is the take from Europe’s largest antiques centre, a fair organiser who is packing them in and a booksellers fairs’ association with a £1m sales figure from just one event.

Patrick Boyd-Carpenter is an established fine art dealer with over 40 years’ experience in handling paintings, drawings, sculpture and works of art. He is based at Grays Antique Market, London W1

With new visitors, international buyers returning and a fresh look at events, the mood is upbeat