Fairs and Markets

With the first CADA fair to be held in Chelsea receiving positive feedback (see story also in this edition), we now look ahead to a much more local event available for traders

Up in the much-visited and still dreamy Suffolk town of Southwold - one of the first towns to gentrify, along with Whitstable in Kent in the 1990s - Anthony Keer of Lomax Fairs is looking forward to Easter.

Dealer Patrick Mestdagh (Galerie Patrick & Ondine Mestdagh) has partnered with gallery owner Sébastien Janssen (Sorry We’re Closed) to launch a new art and antiques fair in Brussels.

Paxton House has three events coming up this year.

Kate Lee, who owns Blyburgate Antiques and Antiques at Four, a small centre in the east Suffolk town of Beccles, said she has always “wanted a pop-up shop”.

A hit at TEFAF was a rediscovered portrait that Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) painted in 1897 of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona, from the Ga people of west Africa.

Dealer duo started online showcase during the pandemic but around 20 traders continue to feature

An antiques centre in north Derbyshire is set to close on March 31 after 15 years in business.

Collectors and institutions flooded into the huge art fair for an ‘exceptional calibre’ of works on display

An event where vintage fashion-spotting and classic car-ogling is part of the weekend is the Classic Car Boot Sale, organised by Hemingway Design.

Sunbury Antiques Fairs has successfully taken over the running of the event staged in the Surrey hills

The next LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair will partner with luxury jewellery ‘collective’ Haute Jewels.

Exhibitors at The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht made a string of early sales at the prestigious event which opened on Thursday, March 13.

Organiser says bookings are healthy ahead of debut and feels there is room for more quality fairs in the area

It’s time for the annual Festival of Cards when 60-plus dealers will head to Junction 24, an events centre in North Petherton, near Bridgwater, Somerset, on Thursday and Friday, March 28-29.

British exhibitors are among the 273 dealers and galleries showing from 21 countries in total

To mark the new-look Harrogate Book Fair dealer Anthony Smithson of The Keel Row Bookshop in Whitley Bay will be offering for sale a 1948 first edition of the Hercule Poirot novel 'Taken At the Flood' signed by Agatha Christie.