Fairs and Markets

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

Latest version of the NEC art and antiques event has established firm roots and is winning warm praise

Nosheen Brohi runs jewellery dealership Fable & Windsor at Grays Antique Market in Davies Street, Mayfair

While the big hitter auction houses found the environment challenging, the mid-tier salerooms, dealers and fairs enjoyed a generally more positive experience this year

It has been a very encouraging year of new fairs and business launches

The third edition of FAB Paris concluded at the end of November with healthy sales and enthusiastic interest.

Farm buildings and more humble structures can provide ideal showcases for antiques businesses

With more than a thousand traders doing business, Les Puces de Saint-Ouen in Paris is effectively 12 markets in one

Among the opening sales at the FAB Paris fair at the newly restored Grand Palais was this Sicilian Baroque polychrome and gilt wood sculpture group of the Annunciation.

Braxton joins newcomers at a market with 32 dealers and a waiting list

Lesley Ayres organises the monthly 20-year-old 'Ilkley Antiques Fair' which she has run since 2019. The next is on Sunday, December 1, at the Clarke Foley Community Hub in the North Yorkshire town.

Four generations of the Bartlett family have farmed Hinton Farm near Yeovil in Somerset.

The hubbub that is the Giant Shepton Flea has been run by veteran fair organiser Sue Ede and her family for nearly 25 years.

Review of an event praised as being casual and inexpensive to stand at but also well organised

Alan Old of So Last Century fair is going all festive with a two-day seasonal market set to run in Dulwich, south London, at the end of this month.

An antiques fair which launched in May at Cheltenham Racecourse got off to such a good start that it is being repeated on Sunday, November 24.

The antiques, collectables and decorative arts fairs run by Jackie Edwards of ACVR Events in the centre of the Hampshire town of Romsey involve just one location but five, inside and outside.