Among those who visited were museums from UK and USA who bought objects from among the 55,000 provided.
Sales were also made to visitors from Australia, Mongolia, India and South America. The exhibitor who came the furthest to stand was The Old Corkscrew who came from South Africa.
Among the 160 stands at the fair were five involved in the new showcase and six comprising the inaugural SOFA London section.
Around 100 experts organised into 30 committees vetted the fair.
The fair took 2150 man hours to set up and 1000 to break down. 5243 hours were devoted to security during the show – at which there were more than one million diamonds.
The 66 flower arrangements included 185 banana flowers.
Key sales
The fair started amidst Brexit worries and continued through a particularly turbulent political week.
Still there were key sales made from the beginning of the fair. During the fair's preview day, for example, Hansord Antiques (Lincoln) sold eight pieces priced between £300 up to five figures including a king wood coffre fort from 1690 that found a new home - in Manhattan's Park Avenue.
Included below is a sampling of sales made during the fair.
- Wakelin and Linfield (West Sussex) sold a Spanish walnut refectory table made c1880 once owned by Orson Welles to a New York decorator bought for a price in the region of £25,000.
- A Russian glass and gilt metal pendant chandelier sold from the stand of Woodham-Smith (London) to an American decorator for £12,500.
- A pair of inlaid mahogany Edwardian display cabinets from Wilsons Antiques (West Sussex), made c1910, which sold for just under £1000 each.
- A rare silver tazza designed by Kate Harris and manufactured by William Hutton & Sons in 1901. The piece sold to a private collector for a price of around £5000 from the stand of Peartree Collection (London).
- A late 18th century Sheraton period rosewood cylinder Bureau sold from the stand of Patrick Sandberg Antiques (London) for £6000.
- Richard Price sold two French empire mantle clocks in excess of £10,000.
- A pair of George II giltwood pier glasses made in the manner of Matthias Lock, which feature fanciful designs of the French picturesque, sold from the stand of John Carroll Antiques (Dublin) for a six figure sum.
- Art Deco specialist Jeroen Markies sold a three piece Art Deco suite for £14,500 and sold 20th century Italian console table from the 1970s to a buyer from Sydney.
- A neoclassical marquetry commode attributed to Franceso Abiatti, made in Lombardy c1800, from the stand of Craig Carrington (Stroud). It sold for around £40,000.
