Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Dealer Henrywood takes Taunton antiques centre chance
05 June 2023Ceramics specialist offers a range of antiques
Car boots coming up at stately home venues
05 June 2023Three stately home car boots are on the way in the next few months.
Brocante promises lots of space in a park venue
05 June 2023Dealers from a Norfolk centre will be reinforced by many others during the Bayfield Brocante.
Picnic plans for dealers ahead of Arthur Swallow Fairs' new Cirencester Park event
29 May 2023Adam Hills of Retrouvius, the London shop and studio specialising in architectural salvage, has 35 ex-University of Nottingham large oak refectory tables and benches with hand-carved details to shift.
Sherborne Antiques Market full of success stories
29 May 2023A tribal art specialist, who started his career as a schoolboy, is one of 38 dealers at this thriving Dorset centre.
Bath time in Manchester
22 May 2023The Vintage Home Show runs in three locations including the atmospheric and restored Victoria Baths in Manchester
Career path leads to brocante buzz
22 May 2023Event held in Oxfordshire village includes a talk by dealer who also stars in a TV antiques show
Ideal for impressing cool customers
22 May 2023This classy teak wine cooler exudes Mid-century style, all clean lines and simplicity.
Marylebone fest is back in antiques-rich area
15 May 2023After a four-year absence the Church Street Antiques Fair is returning to Marylebone in London on Sunday, June 11.
Coronation fever at Arthur Swallow Fairs
15 May 2023A coronation theme was taken up by some of the dealers at Arthur Swallow Fairs’ three-day decorative home and salvage show at Ripley Castle, near Harrogate.
Suffolk event offers the pick of Provence
15 May 2023Lovers of the le style français can look forward to the week-long annual French summer market to be held at the home of dealers Cathy and Peter Bullen next month.
Brocante bonanza in the east of England
08 May 2023Lawns of a Norfolk hall form the venue for another event staged by Blackdog in a beautiful setting
Love Fairs on track with two extra events
08 May 2023So popular are Love Fairs’ events at both Brighton and Lingfield racecourses that organiser Donny Mann has added an extra annual fair to each event.
Son of prolific artist Robert Lenkiewicz opens gallery in south Devon town
01 May 2023An addition to the businesses on the Ashburton Antiques Trail is Reuben Lenkiewicz Fine Art & Antiques Gallery, which is run by the son of the charismatic, renowned and prolific artist Robert Lenkiewicz who died in 2002.
Make a date… but the right one
01 May 2023The biannual 'Antiques in Tents' held at Burton Court, near Leominster in Herefordshire, has its first outing of the year on Friday and Saturday, May 12-13, not Saturday and Sunday May 12-13 as we wrote in ATG No 2590.
Taking the hassle out of buying from abroad
24 April 2023Annual Kent fair supplies local and European stock
New faces in tents
24 April 2023The biannual Antiques in Tents has its first outing of the year on Friday and Saturday May 12-13 with some new faces in the 60-dealer line-up.
Two fairs to tempt you to Long Melford
24 April 2023A monthly fair billed as the longest-running and only midweek datelined pre-1930s antiques fair in the world has just celebrated its 32nd anniversary
Beccles Antiques Market is back
17 April 2023It’s coming up to open season for open-air markets and the popular Beccles Antiques Market is back this month on Sunday, April 30.
Three events to provide a snapshot of the vintage photographica market
17 April 2023Collectors of photography have an eyeful next month in London with three fairs dedicated to the art, both vintage and modern.