Fairs and Markets

Antiques and vintage street markets now proliferate in towns across the UK brightening up the high streets and offering extra selling options for dealers.

Having missed its usual August event while the venue was refurbished, The Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair returns for the second time this year to Westonbirt School.

Stand-out decorative items by named artists with interesting back-stories were in demand at the latest The Decorative Fair in Battersea.

Organisers call it a day in the south coast town but other events they hold have experienced a rise in footfall

Wedding gift for Catherine of Aragon stands out as one of the highlights at the latest Frieze Masters

At the 23rd edition of the Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam (TAF), one highlight is this Angolan take on a Regency sabre-leg chair, carved c.1850 and priced at £2200 with Adam Prout.

The long-running Chester Fair is now the Cheshire Decorative Antiques & Art Fair, a name chosen to underline its position as the only major antiques fair in the county.

Run since 2017, The Yorkshire Flea, run by Helen Bowman and Ben Wray, comprises popular Sunday events in two auction marts three times a year in North Yorkshire.

An Asian armour dealer sold nearly all of his stand’s stock in the first few days of FAB Paris last week.

Sarah Harris, proprieter of Breckland Antiques, is a specialist in all aspects of the British Arts & Crafts movement. She will be standing at the Northern Antiques Fair in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, held from October 9-12 (previewed last week in ATG No 2711).

A lively antiques and collectables market has run weekly for the past 40 years in Cirencester’s 19th century Corn Hall in the centre of the town.

Established last year, a vintage and antiques fair which ran at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley is relocating to Lillibrooke Manor in Cox Green, Maidenhead, due to the museum’s permanent closure last month.

Dealers full of praise for annual York fair as international and trade buyers snap up their wares

Biannual Herefordshire fair now in its 12th year is held in a large marquee at country house location

Driving for hours along remote desert tracks is part of the job for Alexandra O’Brien of Bay Gallery Home, a contemporary Aboriginal art gallery in the Cotswolds.

The huge fair in in Nottinghamshire is still renowned for its sheer scale, diverse visitor base and key selling opportunities