More than 700 attended and enough business was achieved to persuade every one of the 80 or so participating dealers to rebook. Indeed, the organisers have also had inquiries from other specialist Deco dealers who missed the launch but want to climb aboard.
At present the duo have not been able to finalise a date with the university for the second staging, but whenever it is both David and Nick have promised their dealers that it will not deliberately clash with any other Deco fair.
So’ton Deco fair passes with honours
RARELY do organisers get together for a joint venture but David Smith of EW Services and Nick Cox of Abbey Art Deco Fairs did just that for the first Southampton Art Deco Fair, held at Southampton university on Sunday April 27.
