Fairs and Markets

Sales at this year’s edition of The London Antique Rug and Textile Art Fair (LARTA) continued, literally, until the doors were shutting on the final day.

Each edition of The Decorative Fair brings new faces and this season Sheldrake Collection, founded by friends Alice Dickie and Chloe Shann, was one of them.

From huge sharks to chocolate pots, The Decorative Fair offered a tempting range to suit all tastes

Visit from ‘Queen of Pop’ underlines just how much there is to see in Kent town including art and antiques

The February Cheshire Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair marks the event’s first winter outing at Chester Racecourse since 2023.

News of west London dealer collective holding a pop-up – plus lots more to visit in bustling Chiswick

Back in August 2023 dealer Dave Steel of Tree of Ages Antiques Fairs saddled up and took over the midweek Epsom Antiques Fair run at Epsom Racecourse by the Bayliss family of Continuity Fairs for 30 years.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the TEFAF restoration fund awarding €50,000 to the Old Master picture gallery in Dresden, Germany.

First Kempton event this year will involve 100 dealers at the racecourse venue

A picture of a carriage horse by a once nearly forgotten animal painter is one of the stand-out offerings at the Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair.

American decorators and buyers were in abundance on the first day of the winter edition of The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park this week.

Judy Berger founded Judy’s Vintage Fairs in Leeds in 2005, after she described a vintage event back then as “less Velvet Underground, more Vera Lynn”.

Geoffrey ‘Geoff’ Whitaker, entrepreneur, antiques dealer and founder of the International Antiques & Collectors Fairs (IACF), died over Christmas aged 82, after a period of illness.

Indoor event at hall in Cheshire town could expand to outdoors as well as the weather improves

Pudsey Civic Hall in Leeds is the venue on Sunday, February 8, for another of the vintage home fairs run by dealer Lisa Doel of Ginger Biscuit Events,

Monthly event in Bedfordshire kicks off the year with successful staging in early January