Fairs and Markets

As London sizzled in a late summer heatwave, the antiques industry cooled off by raising a glass to 45 years of the Antiques Trade Gazette. Next generation mingled with more seasoned players at the party hosted in the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair pavilion.

ArtAncient, the Chelsea-based dealers in ancient art, natural history and historical objects of interest, have won Best Stand at the LAPADA Fair for the second year in a row.

This week’s York National Book Fair hosts the most exhibitors ever to feature in its 42-year history.

Forty-two ceramic artists have been chosen from 100 applicants to exhibit at the three-day Ceramic Art York event which opens tomorrow at the city’s Museum Gardens.

As part of Alfies Antique Market’s week-long 40th anniversary celebrations, the Antiques Young Guns will provide a pop-up shop for their members at the centre.

The paintings of British watercolourist and architectural painter Samuel Prout comprise the 2017 loan exhibition for the BADA Fair.

Dealer Philip Crosthwaite and his wife Claire have taken over the 18-year-old antiques and vintage fair in Hingham.

An antiques centre in Suffolk will remain open for up to two more years despite the owner of the building obtaining permission to convert the building into flats.

The August Bank Holiday is one of the busiest weekend in the fairs and markets calendar. Here’s a quick look at just a few of the many events taking place across the country.

The imminent arrival of Crossrail services in London are threatening the character of the Hatton Garden jewellery quarter.

The annual Malmo Decorative Antiques Fair (Malmo Dekorativa) takes place at the end of this month at Katrinetorp, a pretty manor house and garden oasis around 10 minutes from the city centre and within easy distance of the airport.

Over 100 exhibitors have signed up for the inaugural Hong Kong Coin Show which opens on Friday, making it one of the largest numismatic shows of the year in Asia.

The head of Lille’s Chamber of Commerce has called the cancellation of this year’s Braderie “an economic and cultural disaster”.

Charlotte and Frankie Milford, organisers of Field Dog Fairs, have opened an antiques centre in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Alfies Antiques Market will make its first appearance as a vendor at the Battersea Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair this autumn.

The annual Braderie de Lille was cancelled today just weeks before opening in light of continuing security concerns in France.

FORMER model and songwriter Zoe Durrant launched her Little Vintage Lover Fairs in Norfolk in 2008, holding the first one at Blakeney, following this in 2010 with Heydon, in north Norfolk, 15 miles from Norwich.

Super-salesman and artist Marcus Harvey, one of the 100 artist exhibitors at the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair at Hastings on July 16, had been chatting to Amber Rudd, newly appointed home secretary in Theresa May’s government reshuffle.

David Juran, organiser of The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea, died last week.

The summer instalment of Antiques for Everyone opened yesterday at Birmingham’s NEC.