Fairs and Markets

Despite events that seemed to be conspiring to make life difficult, TEFAF Maastricht remains a must-visit

For some who are thinking of a visit to TEFAF Maastricht, the cost of staying over and paying for a hotel can be offputting and Maastricht appears too far away.

Dominating the skyline in the Staffordshire city of Lichfield is the only medieval cathedral in the UK with three spires.

Shift from racecourse to motor-racing venue also gives traders opportunity to drive a sports car

Christian Scrimgeour of Flea London in Vinegar Yard and Flat Iron Square is returning to canalside Hackney Bridge for her permanent weekend fleamarket.

Would you rather a blue or a bronze BAFTA? Even if you haven’t made a stand-out screen performance this year – and even if you didn’t know a blue BAFTA was an option – they could still be yours.

Further disruption will hit dealers on Portobello Road with plans for a “comprehensive refurbishment” of one of the street’s antiques arcades.

Galerie Bel Etage of Vienna took a year off exhibiting at TEFAF Maastricht, opting to put out a catalogue, Masterpieces 2026.

Judy Berger of Judy’s Vintage Fair, which runs vintage furniture and fashion fairs and fleamarkets across the UK, with a focus on London, is launching something unusual: The Kensington Botanical Market.

Ahead of a major two-day postcard collector festival, a dealer explains the draw of the most popular types

This seven-panel peepshow, an elaborate advertising campaign for Shell Oil, is offered for $2850 by Philip Salmon & Company at the Ephemera Society of America’s annual fair.

Second CADA Fair held in the capital also acts as a advert for the region

What’s not to love at a couple of Love Fairs’ events which are held at two racecourses in southern England?

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.