Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Easter Weekend options for a fair visit
27 March 2023The long Easter Weekend this April is packed with art and antiques fairs taking place around the country. Here we pick out a few highlights from the calendar.
Fond memories of the Peterborough festival
27 March 2023Dealers look back at the huge Peterborough event now holding its last showground venue staging
Ally Pally fair back in business
20 March 2023North London event is revived as organiser who used to be involved launches a revamped summer edition
Go down by the riverside for a packed event
20 March 2023Described by organiser Gary Wallis as the “Glasto of the antiques calendar”, the Henley Décor Fair is back at the Henley Showground by the Thames with a four-day packed schedule.
Call out to vintage traders for Henley events
20 March 2023Judy, Lady McAlpine is looking for more vintage traders to take space at two events in Henley this summer.
Join the fleamarket fellowship
13 March 2023Square in front of Walthamstow’s distinctive town hall is venue for organisers’ latest venture
Organisers promise a wow factor
13 March 2023Thirty dealers will be spreading out on the ground floor and in the grounds of Enys House, Penryn, near Falmouth in west Cornwall at the first of this year’s antiques and decorative fairs on Saturday and Sunday, April 1-2.
Why the Isle of Wight is perfect for a buying trip
06 March 2023Spotlight on some of the antiques and art trade attractions available to increasingly high-spending visitors
On a space exploration mission: new salvage fair in Tiverton
27 February 2023Organiser of Devon event that has run out of room for dealers launches second fair in Tiverton
Portobello Road antiques market gains award
27 February 2023The Portobello & Golborne Market has won a national prize.
Festival of Cards moves up the Junction
27 February 2023Held at the Bath & West Showground in Somerset for many years, the annual Festival of Cards has moved to a smaller location nearby.
How to be happily tied up in Notts
20 February 2023Young fair organiser keeps very busy by running three events near Newark under Red Fox banner
More like a full English on the menu
20 February 2023Not only does Paula Duggan run Little English House, a business selling antiques and items created from antique fabrics, she organises an interiors fair in Howden, near York. And she is also opening a shop in the market town.
Now we’re down to Dulwich
20 February 2023The workload of Lucy Ryder Richardson and Petra Curtis, founders of the MidCentury Modern Shows, is now so taken up with the property staging side of their business and other projects that they now focus solely on the fairs they run at Dulwich College.
Duo launch Castle Cary enterprise
13 February 2023A new antiques centre is opening in the small town of Castle Cary in south Somerset. It is just five miles from Bruton, now a hub of contemporary design, antiques businesses and the global art dealership Hauser and Wirth Gallery that draws visitors from around the world.
Antiques on High: Business adds a fair to its roster of centres
13 February 2023Couple already running four branches take on Dunster event to boot
Boon time in Wiltshire town
13 February 2023Mikaela and Roger Boon are all set again for their upcoming Wilton Vintage Fair on Saturday, February 25, at the Michael Herbert Hall in the Wiltshire town of Wilton.
Stan Green launches fair at York Racecourse
06 February 2023Racecourse event launched by a veteran fair organiser after demise of one of the fairs at the same venue
The charms of ephemera as fair is fully booked
06 February 2023“Our ephemera fairs are very popular and the next one on February 26 is fully booked with 43 dealers,” said Etc Fairs’ organiser Kim Jeffery, who added: “This fair only takes place six times a year but interest in the dates is very strong.”
Interiors on offer inside a shop
06 February 2023Up till now antiques dealer Philip Crosthwaite has belonged to a happy band of dealers who run their online businesses from home.