Fairs and Markets

A new venue for an art and antiques fair is a big bet.

One of the big antiques love-ins that dominate Love Fairs’ portfolio is the antiques and collectors’ two-day Detling fairs .

Launched last June at Chatham’s Historic Dockyard by a saleroom based in the yard, Medway Auctions, the next regular antiques and vintage fair will run at the No 5 slip at the wharf on Sunday, June 28.

Treasure House Fair offers a roster of top dealers, a major Surrealist loan exhibition and an organiser who believes the fair is ushering in a new generation of trade

“You can’t buy happiness but you can buy vintage and that’s kind of the same thing.”

Studiolo returns for its second London edition with just three works per dealer. It’s the setting that does the heavy lifting: the Cloisters and College Garden at Westminster Abbey

Alfies Antique Market on London’s Church Street is set to celebrate its 50th anniversary on July 9. Founder Bennie Gray, who also launched Grays Antique Market, tells ATG about his five decades in charge.

The great and the good of Rutland and its surrounding counties descended on the Rutland Hall Hotel for three days of fine art, antiques and design.

Exhibitors selling to other traders, alongside decorators and private buyers, is a key feature of The Decorative Fair in Battersea.

Stephanie Castell and Ben Cooper, of Two C’s Antique Fairs, are coming down the straight for their antiques fair in Shropshire on Saturday July 11 and Sunday July 12.

Not many antiques fairs run for five days but the regular antiques fair held in the market town of Kingsbridge in south Devon does just that.

Cherish Vintage is staging brocante events in Kent and across two sites in Midhurst this summer

Make a note in the diary about The Brocante Barn at Forstal Farm at Lamberhurst, near Tunbridge Wells in Kent.

Key events for dealers in and collectors of antique and vintage textiles are the Textile Society’s two annual events: one in Manchester on Sunday, June 14, with 60 dealers and the other in London in October.

Two fairs have been launched with 40-50 traders at each taking advantage

If the weather’s good you can’t beat the atmosphere at an agricultural county show which will often include antiques and vintage spots.

Spontaneous purchases and new clients contribute to a successful three-day run at Petworth