Dealers

As the in-person fairs calendar starts off this autumn, the fifth annual Armchair Art Fair catalogue hits doorsteps.

Neil Payne, founder of Hidden Treasures, has added two new antiques and vintage fairs to his packed calendar of events. Some of his fairs have been running since the 1970s at locations in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.

Ticket sales are way ahead of the normal level at this stage, says Gary Wallis, organiser of the three-day spring/autumn Henley Décor Fair.

An ex-fashion buyer book lover turned bookbinder is one of the stallholders at Home and Vintage Living, organised by Jules Langley.

The membership figures for the PBFA (Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association) are looking robust with 25 new members in the past 12 months, bringing the total to around 400.

A Regency Coade stone torchère has been acquired by The Fitzwilliam Museum from West Midlands dealership Thomas Coulborn & Sons.

Specialist who left Chelsea for a move across west London feels the existing gallery model is ‘tired’

Here we take a look at markets in south London, Brighton and Cardiff

This stoneware cream glaze vase, c.1960, by Bernard Leach (1887- 1979) is included in the programme of exhibitions at Willoughby Gerrish this autumn.

Beth Swaab of Bink Fine Art specialises in Modern British, Impressionist and 19th century pictures.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Les Enluminures offers a European emerald and enamel solitaire ring, c.1680-1720, at the second edition of Frieze Seoul.

Gerald Kenyon died on August 20. He was born in Chester where his ancestors had been dealers for many generations: he was an eighth-generation dealer.

The Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia has a larger and longer staging planned for this year.

A large collection of porcelain from the factory of Samuel Alcock (1799-1848) amassed by a well-known literary agent is coming up for sale.

A roundup of news and events from around the trade

The Parcours de la Céramique et des Arts du Feu is an annual gallery-based event in Paris focusing on a broad range of ceramics and glass, both antique and modern, from Europe and Asia

Malcolm Fairley of St James’s deals in Japanese applied arts of the 19th and early 20th centuries with a focus on cloisonné enamels and metalwork.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.