Fairs and Markets

Organiser of new Surrey event pleased at positive reaction and trader response.

A reminder of a fair we previewed in January: Caroline Brown’s second vintage furniture and homewares fair takes place on Saturday and Sunday, April 28-29.

A charity which has sponsored an armourer, a gunmaker and many other metalworkers is the very appropriate cause being supported by The Antique Arms Fair at Olympia.

The fair offering a way to own a big name without the huge cost is back for 33rd staging.

Steve Cooper of Haddon Events is such a keen supporter of the Museum of Power at Maldon in Essex that he holds a biannual antiques and collectors’ fair at the venue.

Neil Packer’s day job as a warehouse manager may seem tame compared to his out-of-hours activities.

The designer Emma Bridgewater began experimenting with what are now her signature sponge-painted ceramics in the bedroom of a former squat in Brixton.

Ruby is the theme at fair held in grand venue as trade body marks its 40th birthday milestone.

Sir William Rothenstein’s portrait of Ida John née Nettleship has been named ‘the face of the fair’ for the seventh edition of the CADA fair from April 19-22.

One of the best-known faces on the fairs circuit is Matthew Adams, who has organised for nearly 40 years a monthly antiques fair at the Royal Horticultural Fair in London.

The spring edition of the Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair at Battersea Evolution in London hosts 150 exhibitors from across the UK and Europe.

New on the block is the Reclaimed Home Fair, running on Saturday, April 14, at the town hall in Chipping Norton.

Duncombe Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair attracts dealers to the beautiful town of Helmsley, North Yorkshire, twice a year.

The first civic event in the St Andrews Hall in Norwich took place in 1544. Five centuries later, the City Antiques Fair and Fleamarket runs monthly in the medieval surroundings of the Grade I-listed hall.

Slow and steady. That, dealers reported, was the general course of sales at the recent British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) fair.

Dealer Chris Brown is a busy man. A specialist in Poole pottery, for a start he organises the twice-yearly dedicated sale at Cottees Auctions in Poole, Dorset.

In answer to the question “why do you want to climb Mount Everest?” mountaineer George Mallory, who died on it in 1924, famously replied “because it’s there”.

The panel of kantha stitching from West Bengal shown below will be for sale with dealer Jennifer Evans, aka Jenpatola, for £79 at The Textile Society’s antique and vintage textile fair at the Armitage Centre in Manchester on Sunday April 15.