Fairs and Markets

A mindful quote about glass from the great American writer Tennessee Williams comes in his one-act drama The Glass Menagerie which premiered on stage in Chicago in 1944: “When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

From modest origins, the York event is now the largest antiquarian book fair in the UK

Dealer who was invited to organise a fair at nearby estate holds the second edition this month

Since the owners of Aspal Antiques launched an antiques centre at Stonham Barns Park three years ago and added a second centre on site to include a reclamation yard, a steady stream of antiques-related businesses have opened up.

Oriental ceramics and bronzes specialist Ian McLean, an antiques dealer who has opened an antiques centre near Sevenoaks, says cheerily: “Otford already has two very good antique centres but you can’t have too many.”

Themed exhibitions at this year’s Parcours des Mondes link ethnographic art with Surrealist movement

Dealer who has run a major Irish fair for 35 years feels Georgian furniture is starting to rise in value

Debra Scadding and her partner Sue McIntosh took over the running of B2B Events’ two very popular events at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern, Worcestershire in January, renaming the operation B2B Fairs.

Texting and Zooming have practically taken over our busy lives and taking time out to write a card, let alone a letter, seems like too much of a stretch. Yet UK Pen Shows, which runs dedicated fairs at five UK locations, is thriving.

As Hidden Treasures, Neil Payne organises monthly antique and vintage fairs in Berkhamsted and Haddenham in Hertfordshire, Benson in Oxfordshire and Marlow in Buckinghamshire.

After celebrating 50 years of trading last year, the 'Petersfield Antiques Fair' makes a welcome return to the Festival Hall in the Hampshire town.

Darren Hudson is the proprietor of Hudson Antiques. For the last eight years he has been organiser of the thrice-yearly Decorative Fair in Battersea Park. The next starts on October 1.

Some of the biggest hotshot dealers in classic arms will soon be loading up their cars and vans ready for the Classic Arms Fair at Kempton Park Racecourse on Sunday, September 1.

Caroline Brown of Rose & Brown Vintage Fairs is launching a vintage event in North Yorkshire.

The next edition of the antiques vintage fair run by Love Fairs at the Kent Showground is on Saturday and Sunday, August 31 to September 1.

Event launched in the north-east becomes latest to be staged at an ever-popular racecourse venue

Alan Old of So Last Century has started a new antiques market at the Gipsy Hill Brewery’s Taproom, near Crystal Palace in south London.