Dealers

Welsh showground fair run since its launch 25 years ago by family business Continuity is changing hands

First event at this time of year generates encouraging feedback and a healthy string of sale successes

Ken Besford of Durham Promotions NE, organiser of the Great North Decorative Antique Fair, is heading down the straight for the spring edition (Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27) of the triannual event he launched last year at Newcastle Racecourse.

When Anthony Bernbaum curated the exhibition Archibald Knox, Beauty and Modernity, a Designer Ahead of his Time at the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair in 2014, he was working in investment banking.

Launched in 2019 as an annual event but biannual since 2022, such is its appeal to both dealers and visitors, the first of this year’s antiques and decorative fairs held in the Georgian interior of Enys House runs on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27.

The Petersfield Antiques Fair is now in its 52nd year since the event’s dawn in the early 1970s.

The Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association (CADA) held its first London fair - Cotswold Art Antiques Chelsea - at Chelsea Old Town Hall on the King’s Road from March 20-23.

Michael Cooke, known to many as ‘Mapman Michael’, passed away on March 14 aged 79.

Derek was born on October 14, 1942, to Gladys and Harold.

A hit at TEFAF was a rediscovered portrait that Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) painted in 1897 of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona, from the Ga people of west Africa.