Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Midcentury Modern organisers host show on the web
30 November 2020The Midcentury Modern Shows team of Lucy Ryder Richardson and Petra Curtis are all grounded until next year.
Wiltshire ‘collective’ hails slow but steady transatlantic deliveries
23 November 2020Shipping in the older, literal sense of the word has played a vital role in coping with robust international demand during the current Covid-19 challenges, according to a Wiltshire business.
Video ‘shop tours’ prove popular selling method in Ashburton
23 November 2020In an enterprising move early last year dealer Lydia Wood launched an antiques trail in Ashburton, on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.
Back-to-front way of doing business
23 November 2020Quirky might be a way to describe Andrew Blackall’s antiques shop which is both Number 56 and 70 in the High Street, Corsham.
Online is gift-wrapped opportunity
23 November 2020Martin Webster is the e-commerce manager for the Scottish Antique and Arts Centre in Abernyte, Perthshire.
Lock and learn: business lessons
09 November 2020Three dealers who stand at fairs and in centres describe how they meet the Covid-19 challenges
How to handle a crunch time
02 November 2020Dealer says the market for vintage items such as biscuit tins is holding up well
Grandma’s Attic restarts with the popular Wimborne event
02 November 2020Grandma’s Attic Fairs is holding its first antiques and collectors’ event this weekend since lockdown in early March.
Streets open for business
02 November 2020Under the current restrictions Jackie Edwards of ACVR Events is still able to run a number of her antiques and brocante street markets held across Hampshire, West Sussex and Surrey.
Make Sunbury your next stop
26 October 2020Calling all the many fans of Sunbury Antiques’ markets at Kempton Park Racecourse.
Devon on a particular high for antiques centre boss
26 October 2020Vincent Page, owner of Antiques on High centres in Oxford and Sidmouth, reports that trade in both shops has been good with “a significant increase in Sidmouth, on numerous days taking more than AOH in Oxford”.
Militaria fairs return to action
26 October 2020Focus on two events that have been staged successfully and boosted dealer confidence
De Morgan tile bought for £8 on a stall takes £3800 at auction
26 October 2020The Tavistock Pannier Market may well see an influx of sleeper-hunters following the canny purchase in June of a piece described as ‘a Cornish tile’.
Former Red Cross centre empty for years becomes antiques hub in booming Suffolk town
19 October 2020Teresa Potts and her husband Jamie, a fisherman, have recently received planning permission to turn a former Red Cross training centre in the Suffolk riverside town of Woodbridge into an antiques centre.
Woodbridge Antiques Centre boosted online
19 October 2020Natalie Smith opened the 30-cabinet Woodbridge Antiques Centre in 2007 and 13 years later she has been enjoying further success at a challenging time through internet sales.
Handle wares the old-school way in Suffolk
19 October 2020The long-running monthly Long Melford Antiques and Vintage Fair held in the village’s Old School has been organised by Laura Bonner and Pearl Gee since 2014.
Marquee marks good sales pitch for Herefordshire tent event
12 October 2020'Antiques in Tents' is latest event to get thinking creatively to ensure they can go ahead
Dealer looks to global demand for textiles
12 October 2020Meg Andrews was as disappointed as many others by the cancellation due to the pandemic of the Textile Society’s antique and vintage textiles fair at Chelsea Town Hall earlier this month.
Gallery buys up Art Deco archives
12 October 2020Chrissie and John Masters of the Design Gallery closed their shop in the Kent village of Westerham last year and now operate from their large showroom and warehouse nearby.
October is the new September
05 October 2020Despite the latest Covid-19 demands, fair organisers are finding ways to go ahead.