Fairs and Markets

From elegant furniture by Scandinavian designers to stand-out lamps and decorative pieces… the lines, materials and simplicity that characterise interiors items from the mid-century modern period appeal to a wide range of buyers.

As this year commemorates VE and VJ days, there are likely to be even more collectors and dealers than usual converging on the first of 2025’s biannual Britannia Medal Fairs on Sunday, May 11.

May show at Ripley is always the best attended, says organiser ahead of the 85-exhibitor three-day offering

More people than ever are getting hooked on angling, says the Angling Trust which reported that in 2023-24 as a result of participation events more than 43,000 people tried fishing for the first time.

Chairs were in particular demand at the Dulwich biannual Mid-century event

Julia Prentice of Cherish Vintage is launching her Midhurst Brocante on Saturday, May 3, at the Old Library in the West Sussex town.

Who doesn’t love an antiques street market? Plenty of buzz and lots to buy makes these a winning formula, so much so that they sometimes expand.

Last week in this column we mentioned dealer Gerard Coles who told us that among the fairs and events that he exhibits at, the Spotlight Market in Hackney “keeps me young”.

Welsh showground fair run since its launch 25 years ago by family business Continuity is changing hands

First event at this time of year generates encouraging feedback and a healthy string of sale successes

Ken Besford of Durham Promotions NE, organiser of the Great North Decorative Antique Fair, is heading down the straight for the spring edition (Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27) of the triannual event he launched last year at Newcastle Racecourse.

Launched in 2019 as an annual event but biannual since 2022, such is its appeal to both dealers and visitors, the first of this year’s antiques and decorative fairs held in the Georgian interior of Enys House runs on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27.

The Petersfield Antiques Fair is now in its 52nd year since the event’s dawn in the early 1970s.

Sam and Gary Halford of Stags Head Events took over the antiques and collectors’ fair held at the Grade I-listed Lamport Hall in Northampton in 2023.

Grandma’s Attic organiser duo will be running events in Hampshire and Dorset on the bank holiday weekend

The Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association (CADA) held its first London fair - Cotswold Art Antiques Chelsea - at Chelsea Old Town Hall on the King’s Road from March 20-23.

One of France’s most beautiful small towns, L’Isle-sur-la Sorgue, near Avignon in Provence, hosts the first of this year’s biannual antiques and brocante fairs from Friday to Sunday, April 18-21.