Dealers

Antwerp dealership Galerie Lowet de Wotrenge has made two sales to international institutions.

Drummond Shaw, a former commodity broker in the City, became interested in salvage in the 1980s while restoring Flexford House, his 1840s family home on Surrey’s Hog’s Back, when he needed to buy the right type of kit.

Antiques and vintage street markets proliferate across the UK, particularly in the summer.

The Cotswolds Vintage Fairs has been run annually with various curators in August for 13 years at the village hall at Toddington, near Broadway.

Northampton’s Monday to Saturday market has had to resort to a temporary location in the Commercial Street car park during the £8.5m renovation of the town’s historic market square.

The lawns at the front of Lotherton Hall, an Edwardian country house at Aberford near Leeds in West Yorkshire, will be buzzing with the sights and sounds of a vintage weekend on Saturday and Sunday, August 12-13.

A setting with lots of water next to valuable books may not seem an obvious fit but it was a successful match

Pictures on sale at the burgeoning event depict warm and more usual seasonal days

Antiques Trade Gazette has recently reported on a spate of thefts at fairs and markets around the country, including at our own event.

Andy Maule is among the exhibitors at The Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair in Westonbirt School, Tetbury, (August 11-13).

New York rugs dealer Jason Nazmiyal has released a new book on the art and history of rugs.

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

Former kennels at the site of AS Fairs’ new three-day event in Gloucestershire now house a dealership

A charming 18th century five-acre walled garden in north Norfolk is the latest in the lengthening portfolio of fairs in interesting venues organised by Suffolk-based Blackdog Events.

Stags Head Events is taking over the biannual antiques and vintage fair at Lamport Hall near Northampton organised for about 15 years by Antiques2Go.

Last year Adam Game launched his monthly antiques and vintage street market in the Hertfordshire town of Berkhamsted.

US museums have been particularly active as underlined by London gallery showcase event highlights