Dealers

Dealers come in all shapes and forms, from small sole-traders to powerhouse galleries. Both play an integral role in the art and antiques market.

They often specialise in a given fields such as jewellery, ceramics, paintings, Asian art or coins but there are also plenty of general dealers operating across different categories.

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Country living suits print dealer

23 October 2017

Utterly English and with features including ‘seven golden rules for selling a country house’, Country Life has been described as ‘read by people who live the real country house style’.

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It’s all part of the Ealing process

23 October 2017

As Sugar and Spice, vintage dealer Emma Newman sells vintage homewares and also organises a regular small and busy fleamarket, pictured above.

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Winter Olympia offers broader appeal for exhibitors and visitors

23 October 2017

Dealers head for London looking for some pre-Christmas cheer.

Soapbox should antiques centres include coffee shops?

23 October 2017

The question this week… should antiques centres include coffee shops?

Asian Art in London: Address to impress

23 October 2017

Dealers in Mayfair, St James’s and Kensington Church Street use Asian Art in London as a chance to bring out their showstoppers in exhibitions at their home or temporary spaces. Here, ATG picks out some of those events in more detail.

Hungarian silver-gilt cup and cover

Hungarian silver cup brings strong contest at SJ Phillips sale

20 October 2017

A 16th century Hungarian silver-gilt cup and cover proved the most eagerly-contested lot at Sotheby’s sale of items from the stock of SJ Phillips earlier this week.

Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam

Dutch diversity – Amsterdam’s Tribal Art Fair gets set for latest staging

20 October 2017

The global tribal art fair circuit moves to The Netherlands this month with the 15th staging of its annual ‘Tribal Art Fair’ taking place in Amsterdam at the De Duif church on Prinsengracht.

William Turnbull bronze figure

Offer Waterman explores the career of William Turnbull

17 October 2017

Offer Waterman’s William Turnbull (1922-2012) retrospective offers the gallery’s most comprehensive solo show of his work since it took on his estate in 2015.

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Last edition of the year for Cotswolds decorative fair

16 October 2017

The final 2017 edition of the Cotswolds Decorative Antiques & Art Fair takes place from October 27-29 in Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire.

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Play your card table right

16 October 2017

More than 30 dealers will stand at the next Galloway Antiques Fair at Cowdray House in West Sussex from October 20-22.

LAPADA seeks chief to stand up for the trade

16 October 2017

LAPADA has begun the search for a new chief executive after the resignation of Rebecca Davies, prioritising a candidate’s ability to represent the trade’s interests to government.

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Vintage with Victorian values

16 October 2017

Organisers of south London events select historic venues for ever-expanding operation...

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Fairs at the double in Munich

16 October 2017

October is Munich is a busy time for art and antiques with two major fairs running concurrently in the city. ATG looks at what will be in store for visitors.

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Dealer Agnews holds exhibition of German artist Lotte Laserstein’s work 30 years after its first showcase

16 October 2017

In 1937, artist Lotte Laserstein’s (1898-1993) promising career in Berlin came to a halt.

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Dreweatts set third Mallett stock sale date

16 October 2017

Newly-independent Dreweatts will hold a third – and probably final – Mallett stock sale from Donnington Priory next month.

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Shop talk – Hunt and Gather

16 October 2017

In our continuing series looking through the keyhole of ‘bricks and mortar’ shops in 2017, ATG talks to Sven Hill about Hunt and Gather, an antiques, vintage and collectables shop in Warrington.

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Kent dealers show enterprising spirit

16 October 2017

Chrissie and John Masters, of the Design Gallery in Westerham, are pictured below in their warehouse in nearby Enterprise Way, Edenbridge, both in Kent.

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5 Questions: Gary Sutcliffe

16 October 2017

Gary Sutcliffe of Sutcliffe Galleries, Harrogate, is exhibiting at the Northern Antiques Fair (October 19-22).

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Battlefield to world of fashion

16 October 2017

The third and final exhibition of Brian Stonehouse’s (1918-98) fashion illustrations at Abbott and Holder opens this month, running from October 19-December 22.

Rebecca Davies of LAPADA

LAPADA seeks new chief executive as Davies returns to the contemporary art world

11 October 2017

Rebecca Davies, chief executive officer of LAPADA, is to leave the trade body at the end of December after three and a half years in the role.

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