Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

There is nothing so stylish in the world of vintage frocks as a 1930s wedding dress – all Hollywood-style glamour with long silky satin gowns.

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

It's all change for Salvo 2018. Organiser Thornton Kay is taking a sabbatical from running the annual architectural salvage fair next year.

Such is the ‘must-have’ vibe now for mid-century and vintage furniture and homeware that Keeley Harris’ 'Discover Vintage Home Shows', launched in 2012 at Manchester’s Victoria Baths, can attract 1900 visitors to the one-day fairs held three or four times a year.

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

The Brighton-based Lalique Mascot Collectors’ Club is launching the second volume of 'Unique Lalique Mascots' by Geoffrey Weiner at Love Fairs’ antiques, vintage and collectables fair at Brighton Racecourse on Sunday, October 22.

Bennie Gray of Grays Antique Market, has a love for early music. So where better to hold a series of weekly recitals than the Music Room, the small events venue which is above the market in Davies Street, Mayfair?

Irish dealer organises events in Dublin with another coming up next month...

Trading as Hoof Brocante, Adrian Higham is among the most genial of men.

“If you lived here you could make it absolutely divine,” wrote author Virginia Woolf to her sister Vanessa Bell in 1916.

This original case of five silver catheters and three urethral sounds marked for the London maker J Millikan might be a strange offering as a prize outside medical circles.

If Julia Brisbane, organiser of Antiques in Tents, ever wanted a publicist for her biannual traditional and decorative antiques fairs at Burton Court, near Leominster, she need look no further than one of her exhibitors, decorative dealer Kieran Mathewson.

This film poster, below, was designed by the Czech artist Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová for 'Une Femme Douce' (A Gentle Woman) based on a Dostoevsky short story.

The long-running biannual antiques, art and design fairs held in the fine ornamental setting of the Orangery in Port Talbot’s 1000-acre Margam Park, has its next outing this weekend (October 7-8).

Bibliomania has been running for three years at the Espace Champerret in the 17th arrondissement in Paris. The biannual fair draws around 100 exhibiting dealers from across Europe (including Pablo Butcher from Oxford).

Changes at Donington Park encourage moves indoors to Warwickshire during colder months...

Amarah Alexandra is a graduate of Birmingham City University and is this year’s winner of the Textile Society’s Graduate Award for Interior Textile Design.

It is modest both in size and venue but the annual Nottingham Tile Fair organised by the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society has an important place in the diary for collectors in this specialised field.

A second outing for Bentleys’ Flea & Collectors’ Fair at Nash Street Farm, Lower Dicker, near Eastbourne is now in the diary for October 7-8.

Earlier this month the new £10 note featuring Jane Austen hit many of the country’s cash dispensers.