Dealers

Joss Graham specialises in ethnographic textiles and works of art and is taking part in 'Tribal Art London' in September.

Two opposing views on the big questions facing the trade… ATG asks whether galleries should display the prices of the works they exhibit at fairs?

This is the story of how James Watkins went from being half of the electro-pop duo Chew Lips, performing at music festivals across Europe including Glastonbury – “we were the sort of late afternoon band you don’t really listen to” – to running an online business selling mid-century design, particularly furniture.

The great flowering of the kimono was in the Edo period (1615-1868) when the merchant and artisan classes, or chōnin, could not use their new-found wealth to improve their social status, so rigid was the shogun military hierarchy.

Andrew Sim favours artists and images that have slipped through the system. Ahead of his appearance at the upcoming '20/21 British Art Fair' he talks to ATG about chasing the unknown...

Leonard started his antiques career in 1968, working in a small shop in Westbourne Grove, London, for Patricia Harvey.

Two years after its last edition, the '20/21 British Art Fair' is back for its 28th staging.

David Wheatley of Wheatley Antiques, who specialised in Chinese and Japanese porcelain and works of art, has passed away, aged 69, after a short battle with cancer.

Tribal Art London, the annual UK fair, seeks to raise the profile of this market in the capital.

It was the 18th century Dutch silversmith John Schuppe who first popularised the silver cow creamer in Britain in the 1750s. Over the following centuries his design captured the imagination of the upper classes, who commissioned these novelty jugs in droves.

A month after the British Museum’s hugely popular Hokusai exhibition in London finished, another Japanese master of the woodblock print is on show at a New York gallery.

Thomas Del Mar, former Sotheby’s specialist and founder of the 25 Blythe Road group of auctioneers, turns fair organiser next month. The first Olympia Arms Fair takes place on September 30.

The London Antique Arms Fair is usually a biannual event, but this year the organiser is rather busy – in November they are putting together the Passchendaele Salute 2017 at Fort Seclin near Lille, France.

Working as a dealer can mean long, solitary hours but it can also be a collaborative pursuit. Here, ATG highlights the work of three from around that trade whose work brings them into regular contact with the wonderful world of art and antiques dealers. Our spotlight falls on a marketer, artist and photographer who are the ‘added extras’.

Warwick arms and armour dealer Runjeet Singh will have a representative at the new Olympia fair (see separate story) but he has a ‘fixture clash’ to cope with. The west London show coincides with his first exhibition in Asia.

Alexander Loveday of Loveday Antiques, which was started by his father David in 1969 in a small north London shop but is now based in a Hertfordshire showroom.

In our continuing series looking through the keyhole of ‘bricks and mortar’ shops, ATG talks to Tino Quaradeghini, who opened Regent Antiques in 1980.