Fairs and Markets

The Moët Hennessy-PAD London prize for best stand 2016 was split between two Mayfair galleries.

Fine Art Asia, the international fine art and antiques fair in Hong Kong, will open its doors with an invitation-only preview on October 1.

The eighth LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair, which ran from 13-18 September, rounded off with a series of strong results across dealer disciplines despite some struggles against the weather.

Back in November 2015 Karl Rutterford declared himself ‘overwhelmed’ when he talked to me about the launch of his online vintage website – named after his then one-year-old son Ralph – with its emphasis on fairground art and branding.

A new Antiques for Everyone Fair is to launch in London in January 2017.

Carlton Varney, president of Dorothy Draper & Co and well-known US interior decorator, is set to open this year’s Irish Antique Dealers’ Fair.

A new London book fair organised by a pair of dealers debuts this autumn and features some of the trade’s most familiar names in a three-day luxury event.

Dealer John Bird was long established in Petworth when the tenure of his old shop came to an end, but this did not spell and end for the West Sussex furniture specialist.

We meet the imaginative designer who makes wedding dresses from repurposed silk 'escape and evade' war maps.

As London sizzled in a late summer heatwave, the antiques industry cooled off by raising a glass to 45 years of the Antiques Trade Gazette. Next generation mingled with more seasoned players at the party hosted in the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair pavilion.

ArtAncient, the Chelsea-based dealers in ancient art, natural history and historical objects of interest, have won Best Stand at the LAPADA Fair for the second year in a row.

This week’s York National Book Fair hosts the most exhibitors ever to feature in its 42-year history.

Forty-two ceramic artists have been chosen from 100 applicants to exhibit at the three-day Ceramic Art York event which opens tomorrow at the city’s Museum Gardens.

As part of Alfies Antique Market’s week-long 40th anniversary celebrations, the Antiques Young Guns will provide a pop-up shop for their members at the centre.

The paintings of British watercolourist and architectural painter Samuel Prout comprise the 2017 loan exhibition for the BADA Fair.

Dealer Philip Crosthwaite and his wife Claire have taken over the 18-year-old antiques and vintage fair in Hingham.

An antiques centre in Suffolk will remain open for up to two more years despite the owner of the building obtaining permission to convert the building into flats.

The August Bank Holiday is one of the busiest weekend in the fairs and markets calendar. Here’s a quick look at just a few of the many events taking place across the country.

The imminent arrival of Crossrail services in London are threatening the character of the Hatton Garden jewellery quarter.

The annual Malmo Decorative Antiques Fair (Malmo Dekorativa) takes place at the end of this month at Katrinetorp, a pretty manor house and garden oasis around 10 minutes from the city centre and within easy distance of the airport.