Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
June 15: not a moment too soon
08 June 2020Despite the difficult challenges, dealers are delighted to open their doors once again
Purchases fit for royalty at Kensington Church Street's summer showcase
08 June 2020After months of lockdown, one’s home may no longer be feeling like one’s castle. However, that situation is easily remedied thanks to the Kensington Church Street Art & Antiques Dealers Association’s Virtual Summer Showcase, which takes ‘fit for royalty’ as its theme.
David Hockney print stars among early sales at first online IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair
02 June 2020Results from an online prints fair prove that sales continue at online events.
The grand reopening pushed back to June 15 for auction houses and antiques shops in England
01 June 2020Date for English trade premises to accept visitors again is now set and Covid-19 safety measures planned
Dealers Online: 23 books, maps and works on paper available from dealers' websites
01 June 2020Our selection of books, maps and works on paper available to view and buy from dealers online.
Visions of East Anglia – and Venice – at selling exhibition
01 June 2020This pastel of Venice by Leonard Squirrell (1893-1979) forms part of an online exhibition that features him and two other contemporaries also from Suffolk, Harry Becker (1865-1928) and George Thomas Rope (1846-1929).
Georges Folmer’s online retrospective
01 June 2020'Composition bleue' (1940-42), an oil by French artist Georges Folmer (1895-1977), is on offer at Waterhouse & Dodd’s online retrospective 'Il n’y a pas de hasard en Art'.
The Welsh stick chair: Turning the pages on a vernacular classic
01 June 2020Welsh furniture and folk art dealers Tim and Betsan Bowen have released 'The Welsh Stick Chair – A Visual Record' as a resource for collectors and designers.
No place like home: Holly Johnson opens showroom in Knutsford
01 June 2020As antiques businesses prepare to reopen across the country, Holly Johnson Antiques is set to launch a new showroom in Knutsford, Cheshire.
London Art Week prepares for record participation this summer
30 May 2020London Art Week is set to have record participation this summer as it launches an altered, online-focused format.
LAPADA Fair postponed over continuing coronavirus concerns
29 May 2020LAPADA has postponed its annual September fair in the wake of continued uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic.
Dealers Online: ATG's selection of 39 books, maps and works on paper available from dealers' websites
26 May 2020The annual 'Rare Books London' schedule of events is cancelled this year due to COVID-19, but plenty of book dealers are still doing business.
How distancing brings us closer: booksellers produce joint catalogues in lockdown
26 May 2020Dealers collaborate on catalogues – building on existing trends of pooling resources
PBFA online fair to go monthly
25 May 2020The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) is planning an unlimited succession of virtual fairs starting on the 29th of each month as it adapts to a world without traditional fairs.
Manuscripts dealer offers a puzzling pageturner
25 May 2020Five different texts from 16th century Germany are bound up in this intriguing vexierbuch.
Bodleian Library gobbles up chocolate box mini-museum for ‘edible’ books collection
21 May 2020The Bodleian Library has added an unusual piece of culinary history to its collection.
Future of the cultural sector discussed in LAPADA webinars as UK emerges from lockdown
19 May 2020LAPADA launches a webinar series this week with a conversation between the association’s CEO Freya Simms and Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Dealer David Harper keeps super-busy
18 May 2020As if opening a shop right now weren’t enough, a book is on the way
Dealers Online: ATG's selection of 22 objects available from dealers' websites
18 May 2020Our selection of 22 objects to view and buy from dealers online.