Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Marine collector offers items at Holt event
12 March 2018Stephen Walters is a maritime expert who has acted as a consultant to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich – the largest task being to design and part-curate the William Bligh bicentenary exhibition in 1989.
Mid-century is modern look
05 March 2018“Mid-century is pretty unstoppable as the ‘new antique’ with exhibitions on Fifties and Sixties designers like Charles and Ray Eames and Harry Bertoia now regular events,” says Lucy Ryder Richardson, founder with Petra Curtis of the Midcentury Modern Shows.
Dealer shows driving ambition to launch fairs
05 March 2018He’s 30 now but a love for antiques all started for decoratives and jewellery dealer William Driver when he was eight. His interest began with collecting Wade Whimsies, progressing to Clarice Cliff and other pieces as he trawled antiques fairs and markets.
Oz suitcase rummage comes to UK
05 March 2018Gene Hoyle, of Lancashire-based family firm Hoyles Promotions, which has been running busy weekly Sunday fleamarkets and car boots across north-west England for 40 years, is adding a “suitcase rummage” to his fleamarkets at Clitheroe Auction Mart in the Lancashire town.
Born identity of brocante in Paris suburb
05 March 2018J’y Reste (I am there) is a clay sculpture evoking a symbolic birth created by Brigitte Moity in her studio at Savigny-sur-Orge, a suburb of Paris.
Design event rolls in to former Brussels railway station
05 March 2018Tour & Taxis in Brussels is a vast swathe of Victorian industrial warehouses on the city’s canal. The complex includes the former train station and its spacious central hall, a long-disused international postal and customs office with links to the German Thurn and Taxis family.
Stylish venue Wilton House is setting for March antiques fair
26 February 2018The Palladian home of the Earls of Pembroke will host the 41st staging of venerable vetted antiques fair on March 2-4.
Eastern Pen Show to include Art Deco Conklin Nozac fountain pen
26 February 2018A dazzling red and black herringbone-patterned Conklin Nozac cushion point pen and pencil set dating from 1932 and with an ability to write 7000 words before running out, is for sale at the Eastern Pen Show on March 4.
On the scent of antique perfume bottle Mother's Day gifts at IACF Shepton Mallett
26 February 2018The annual celebration of Mother’s Day falls this year on Sunday, March 11. Perfume bottles dating from the Victorian era, in a variety of materials and range of prices are a one-of-a-kind gift option.
Brighton fair in time for Mother's Day
26 February 2018Particularly appropriately named for Mother’s Day is Love Fairs, whose upcoming fair at Brighton Racecourse runs on Sunday, March 11.
Toys talk is serious business for Cirencester vintage fair
19 February 2018Antiques dealer and fair organiser Marcus Potts is an Art Deco and early 20th century ceramics man, but he is an absolute mine of information on vintage toys.
Knebworth is next glass opportunity
19 February 2018The Specialist Glass Fair, founded in 1991 by Patricia Hier and run for 16 years by Paul Bishop, will be held on Sunday, February 25.
Black Dog antiques duo press start button for new brocante
19 February 2018Kate and Mike Button of Black Dog Antiques in the market town of Halesworth in Suffolk, also run the monthly Halesworth Brocante which they launched two years ago in the town’s Old Print Works.
Art fair expands to Surrey
19 February 2018“We are always being asked about running our art fairs in Surrey,” said Deborah James, director with Sarah McAllister of Contemporary Art Fairs.
Mid-century: much to discuss
12 February 2018Mid-century design, particularly furniture, continues to be one of the most sought-after within the vintage genre, particularly by designers and decorators.
Savvy Salvo fair firm hopes for holy orders
12 February 2018Antique Church Furnishings, which describes itself as ‘God’s Furniture since 1985’, sells almost everything in the religious line – from chasubles to crucifixes and misericordes to missal stands.
Churches host antiques in Norwich
12 February 2018According to Wikipedia, the medieval city of Norwich had at one time 36 parish churches, the largest collection of urban medieval buildings north of the Alps.
Dealers source pine furniture from fairs and auctions to restore
12 February 2018Antique pine furniture has many followers who buy it battered and cheap and simply ‘tart it up’ with an invariably low degree of skill and taste to sell on.
Book dealer uncovers story of soldier in disguise
05 February 2018If you want to find something unusual in the book and ephemera line, then head to one of the fairs held by the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
Frock Me vintage fair kicks in at temporary Kensington venue
05 February 2018The next three Frock Me vintage fashion fairs this year will be held at the Kensington Town Hall, instead of its usual venue, Chelsea Town Hall, which is being refurbished.