Fairs and Markets

A look back at the headlines of 2019 reveals a healthy trend of launches and expansions.

Table with striking shape is one highlight of the first major London antiques fair of 2020

Arthur Swallow’s busy vintage monthly fleamarket runs at the Lincoln Showground.

Revived by Ruth and Paul Thurman last year, the former Field Dog Fairs event held in the Magnus Sports Hall in Newark under the new organisers will run on Sunday, January 26.

Organisers of the new Northern Irish fair have already booked two more dates at hotel venue

B2B Events’ two-day antiques and vintage fairs at the Kent County Showground are a very accessible trade stop.

One of Europe’s biggest street parties on New Year’s Eve is celebrated in Berlin, which attracts visitors in their thousands.

The Antique Forum Group will be at Uttoxeter Racecourse set in the Dove Valley in Staffordshire on Saturday and Sunday, January 11-12.

For better or worse, Brexit is finally set to proceed and will be a major factor in the year ahead – as will timed auctions, anti-money laundering rules, the looming prospect of a near-total ivory trade ban, antiquities challenges and a new buying ethos based on cultural sensitivities, changes at major fairs and a growing ‘green’ movement.

Also at Shepton Mallet in January, IACF’s two-day Antiques, Vintage & Collectors Fair takes place on Friday and Saturday 17-18.

The first event of the year for Galloway Antiques Fairs is its local event in Harrogate.

The Chinese carved wooden statue pictured below is one of the offerings at the January Cotswolds Decorative Antiques & Art Fair, where the selection of Asian art is set to be wide and varied.

Organiser handed sole control of Kensington ceramics and glass event revived recently.

Exhibitors were encouraged by the second Art and Antiques for Everyone (AAfE) under ambitious new owner MaD Events.

A selection of sales made at Art and Antiques for Everyone.

The next staging of the venerable Art & Antiques Fair Olympia will run longer to incorporate two weekends.

Outside and around the Bermondsey flooring and salvage showrooms of The London Architectural Salvage and Supply Company (Lassco), the annual Maltby Street Christmas Market runs on Friday evenings until December 20 from 6-9.30pm.

Sellers and buyers hit the ground running to make the most of the early-morning bargains