Adams Antiques Fairs

When Matthew Adams started out as a dealer in the early 1980s, the constant cry from fellow dealers was “there are too many fairs”, he says.

London will be thick with trade and private buyers attending the Decorative Antiques & Textile Art Fair and the London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair, both held in the same Battersea Park venue during the week of this month ending on Sunday, January 28.

Long-running monthly event misses out August but the gap can encourage both buying and selling

Market and fair organisers have told ATG they are bolstering security following a spate of recent thefts targeting the jewellery trade.

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Many visitors to the popular Adam’s fair end up buying items they had not come for.

The round of applause that broke out for fair organiser Matthew Adams at the Royal Horticultural Halls on Sunday, March 15 was loud and, exhibitors said, very well-earned.

Thirty years ago organiser Matthew Adams launched his antiques fair held at the Royal Horticultural Halls.

Adams Antiques Fairs rewards stall-holders who last the course.

Matthew Adams has announced that he has been able to fit in an extra date in June for his monthly Sunday antiques fairs held at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London’s SW1.