Fairs and Markets

Spotlight on some of the antiques and art trade attractions available to increasingly high-spending visitors

Rare books specialist Shapero Rare Books run by Bernard Shapero is a regular exhibitor at TEFAF.

How love has been represented in jewellery through the ages was the topic of discussion at Grays Antiques in London.

Fraser Short is gallery manager at Old Masters specialist Rafael Valls, one of the regular returning dealers at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht.

Carlo Milano of Callisto Fine Arts specialises in European sculpture, works of art and Old Master paintings, and is one of 10 exhibitors joining the Showcase this year.

Organiser of Devon event that has run out of room for dealers launches second fair in Tiverton

A newcomer to the Bath Decorative Antiques Fair will bring a chest of drawers in a distinct painted style as part of their debut offering.

The Portobello & Golborne Market has won a national prize.

Held at the Bath & West Showground in Somerset for many years, the annual Festival of Cards has moved to a smaller location nearby.

Improved security is one of the priorities at the fair after the shock of a jewellery robbery last year.

The much-loved Petersfield Antiques Fair is back this month, and it has something to celebrate.

The Open Art Fair (TOAF) is investigating new dates and venues after it was forced to scrap its edition for this year.

Galloway Antiques Fairs is closing because its owners Richard and Susan Galloway are retiring.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the boycott of the BRAFA fair in Belgium by antiquities dealers.

Young fair organiser keeps very busy by running three events near Newark under Red Fox banner

Not only does Paula Duggan run Little English House, a business selling antiques and items created from antique fabrics, she organises an interiors fair in Howden, near York. And she is also opening a shop in the market town.

The 68th edition of the BRAFA Art Fair closed its doors to the public on February 5 with 65,000 visitors having passed through its doors, writes Anne Crane.

The workload of Lucy Ryder Richardson and Petra Curtis, founders of the MidCentury Modern Shows, is now so taken up with the property staging side of their business and other projects that they now focus solely on the fairs they run at Dulwich College.