Fairs and Markets

Alan Old of So Last Century Fairs has been talking to ATG about his ambitions as well as giving news of a new fair to be launched next year.

Offering an impressive line-up of stallholders including Antiques Roadshow expert Mark Hill, a new vintage fair is being launched in west London.

Results from a flurry of fairs early this autumn prove there is plenty of space for such events in the London market.

The first pieces of antique furniture ever to sell at Frieze Masters were snapped up as the 11th edition of the fair opened last week.

A stoneware birdbath designed by one of Rodin’s students was among the highlight sales at the autumn edition of the Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair.

Among the highlights at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair (BIABF) is a first edition of a 19th century German children’s book.

The Cheshire showground event run by Arthur Swallow includes plenty of conversation starters.

A boat modelled out of cloves created in the Moluccan islands of Indonesia is among the highlights at 'Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam'.

London’s fair season is in full swing, and next up is 'Winter Art & Antiques Olympia'.

An antiques and vintage fair which is held in one of the most attractive garden settings in the country is set to blossom over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, November 4-5.

The 'Frock Me! Vintage Fashion Show' on Sunday, October 22, at Kensington Hall looks set to be one of the most popular this year, says organiser Matthew Adam.

Lighter Club of Great Britain holds fair open to both members and non-members

Queues snaked around the block for the opening of British Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery in Duke of York Square.

If you haven’t thought about the Roman Empire yet today, here’s your chance.

This year’s Frieze Masters could be the high-water mark for the representation of women at historic art fairs

A Rembrandt drypoint of 'Jan Uytenbogaert, The Goldweigher', 1639, is among the offerings at this year’s The IFPDA Fair (International Fine Print Dealers Association). Brought by Childs Gallery of Boston, it is offered for $36,000.

Increased private buying plus overseas trade purchases boost the huge annual extravaganza of the York National Book Fair.

Now in its 14th year, the art fair Highlights is way past the status of a newcomer and has become an established up-market event in the autumn calendar.

Another business launches near Stratford-upon-Avon offering 45 traders

Dealer Robert Pugh is bringing a collection of stoneware saltglaze pots by potter Michael Mosse (b.1951 in Yorkshire) from the 1980s onwards to the biannual Antiques in Tents.