Fairs and Markets

Back in August 2023 dealer Dave Steel of Tree of Ages Antiques Fairs saddled up and took over the midweek Epsom Antiques Fair run at Epsom Racecourse by the Bayliss family of Continuity Fairs for 30 years.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the TEFAF restoration fund awarding €50,000 to the Old Master picture gallery in Dresden, Germany.

First Kempton event this year will involve 100 dealers at the racecourse venue

A picture of a carriage horse by a once nearly forgotten animal painter is one of the stand-out offerings at the Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair.

American decorators and buyers were in abundance on the first day of the winter edition of The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park this week.

Judy Berger founded Judy’s Vintage Fairs in Leeds in 2005, after she described a vintage event back then as “less Velvet Underground, more Vera Lynn”.

Geoffrey ‘Geoff’ Whitaker, entrepreneur, antiques dealer and founder of the International Antiques & Collectors Fairs (IACF), died over Christmas aged 82, after a period of illness.

Indoor event at hall in Cheshire town could expand to outdoors as well as the weather improves

Pudsey Civic Hall in Leeds is the venue on Sunday, February 8, for another of the vintage home fairs run by dealer Lisa Doel of Ginger Biscuit Events,

Monthly event in Bedfordshire kicks off the year with successful staging in early January

Some of the rarest coins in world numismatics were sold at auction in New York last week. Auction sessions spanning seven consecutive days (January 12-18) were held as part of the annual New York International Numismatic Convention, the US’s largest and most prestigious numismatic event known as NYINC.

Dealers praise the friendly atmosphere of a Buxton event that has been running for nearly 50 years

Focus on businesses based in two towns rated among ‘most desirable’ in the UK by newspaper

Working in Japanese urushi lacquer requires patience. Harvested from the sap of the Rhus verniciflua tree, it is built up slowly, layer by layer, each stage requiring careful drying and polishing under controlled conditions.

Storms and the threat of snow could not dampen the spirits of rare booksellers and buyers in York for the first PBFA fair of the 2026 book calendar.

London Art Fair stands out as a key early opportunity to showcase works to a domestic audience