Dealers

Modern British trailblazer’s works inspired by a Swiss glacier form centrepiece of event exhibition

A mindful quote about glass from the great American writer Tennessee Williams comes in his one-act drama The Glass Menagerie which premiered on stage in Chicago in 1944: “When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

As longstanding dealers retire and iconic outlets become historic memories, it is cheering to note exciting new developments and the enthusiasm of young entrepreneurs.

Modern British Art Gallery has just launched an online exhibition that explores the legacy of Willem and Pauline Barbieri.

From modest origins, the York event is now the largest antiquarian book fair in the UK

John Andrews is the owner of Scottow Antiques and a partner in Classic Antique Fairs. Its next event runs from September 20-22 at Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre.

Dealer who was invited to organise a fair at nearby estate holds the second edition this month

Since the owners of Aspal Antiques launched an antiques centre at Stonham Barns Park three years ago and added a second centre on site to include a reclamation yard, a steady stream of antiques-related businesses have opened up.

Oriental ceramics and bronzes specialist Ian McLean, an antiques dealer who has opened an antiques centre near Sevenoaks, says cheerily: “Otford already has two very good antique centres but you can’t have too many.”

Themed exhibitions at this year’s Parcours des Mondes link ethnographic art with Surrealist movement

Schmid McDonagh is a dealership of 20th and 21st century objects, furniture, jewellery, art, design and books based in Church Street, north-west London. It will be exhibiting at the Battersea Decorative Fair in October. ATG spoke to co-founder Andreas Schmid.

We regret to announce the death of Paul Lorimer Gifford Nash (July 27, 1941-June 28, 2024).

After a lively sell-out exhibition at London’s Maas Gallery, Winsor Birch is about to unveil the second part of Cosmos of Dreams: Rediscovering the Locked Up Genius of Henry Orlik.

Dealer who has run a major Irish fair for 35 years feels Georgian furniture is starting to rise in value

Behind the traditional frontage of Smithers of Stamford in the Cambridgeshire town of Etton lies a retro collector’s dream.

Debra Scadding and her partner Sue McIntosh took over the running of B2B Events’ two very popular events at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern, Worcestershire in January, renaming the operation B2B Fairs.