Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
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.
Instagram boosts Portobello trade
05 October 2020You might not have been able to get to Portobello Road antiques market on Sunday, September 27, but you could have tried instead a fair on Instagram which ran on the same day from 11am to 1pm.
B2B back at Malvern
05 October 2020The Malvern Flea Fair at the Three Counties Showground on Sunday, September 20, was cancelled following advice from local statutory bodies just a few days before. Organiser B2B Events was left frantically ringing round exhibitors.
It’s got your name written all over it: Dealers sell trunk with fitting label
21 September 2020Nicki and Ralph Retallack who run their second antiques and decorative fair at Enys House, near Falmouth this weekend, have been in touch with a story about coincidences.
Organiser delighted to be back in Bath
21 September 2020Suspended for months, the Bath Vintage & Antiques Market at the Green Park Station in the city returns on Sunday September 27, which has delighted organiser Naomi Knight.
Antiques pop up launches in Southwold off licence
21 September 2020Jenny Cook, Karen Lear and Caroline McCarthy are three enterprising friends who have opened a pop-up antiques shop in the Suffolk town of Southwold.
Peterborough returns with over 2000 dealers
21 September 2020One of the most popular fairs on the circuit, IACF’s Peterborough Festival of Antiques is back.
A slice of country life in Ludlow with racecourse event
14 September 2020Organising duo diversify to attract visitors to this month’s racecourse event
It’s great to be back at Malvern says B2B
14 September 2020B2B Events is truly back on the road, said director Helen Yourston after the turnout at the first Malvern Flea since lockdown at the Three Counties Showground on Monday, August 31.
Fair ready for take-off in Petersfield
14 September 2020Sara Hughes is delighted that her Vintage, Antiques and Militaria Fair at Petersfield’s Festival Hall is finally going ahead on Sunday, September 27, with 50 dealers.
The power of positive thinking
07 September 2020Focus on how one antiques centre survived and now thrives by being prepared to adapt
‘You can never have too much folk art’
07 September 2020Barney and Sam James own a huge warehouse showroom called The Home Bothy near Crawley in Sussex, currently only open by appointment.
Fleamarket back on Church Street
07 September 2020The two-day Hackney Fleamarket is back at Abney Hall on Stoke Newington’s Church Street with all sorts of vintage pieces including lighting (as in this picture below), suitcases, posters, maps, furniture, ceramics, glass, jewellery and records.
Bare decor of an English country house provides the grand setting for a fair
31 August 2020Cornish event returns for second staging after ‘excellent response’ from dealers and visitors
Vintage bazaars embrace the new technology of virtual visits
31 August 2020Following the cancellation of the popular vintage bazaars at the Cheese and Grain arts centre in Frome, Somerset, textiles dealers Liz van Hasselt and Clare Powell have been doing the next best thing: organising the events online via Instagram.
Vintage fair So Last Century returns with Bank Holiday weekend event
27 August 2020So Last Century, the vintage event focused on homeware, furniture, lighting and posters, is to hold its first fair after lockdown on August 31 in Beckenham.
We hope toys come back in play
24 August 2020Organiser of events across the country has fingers crossed for fairs scheduled later in 2020.
Robot paws: the new look for PBFA book fairs
24 August 2020PBFA (Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association) has held four monthly online book fairs, with the fifth going live to the public at noon on Saturday, August 29. Up to 15 books/items can be put up for sale by each bookseller member.