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Decorative Fair Goes East In January 2010 (in London’s South West Battersea Park!)

The January 2010 Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair’s  foyer with it’s eastern flavours, will be designed by Anglo-Oriental Antiques (see previous Antiques & Interior Design Diary news) and will be decorated using wallpapers kindly supplied by Zoffany.  How you wallpaper a marquee remains to be seen…

Zoffany Papers Flavour The Oriental Decorative Fair Lobby in January 2010

The Decorative Fair takes place three times a year, with the first in January, with over 130 exhibitors from the UK and Europe, all specialising in antique and 20th century design.  Its popularity continues to increase in this, its 25th year of business, as an inspiring source for interior decorators and private buyers of the exotic, the unusual and the useful.  The Chinoiserie and Oriental flavours in the foyer display can only help to increase that popularity.

Inside the main exhibition area (Battersea Park’s Marquee) the Decorative Fair continues it’s well known wide range of painted and decorated furniture of all periods, as well as lighting, mirrors and glamorous accessories, the Fair also features a large number of 20th design specialists, as well as more traditional English furniture, textiles, garden ornament, art and sculpture, as well as quirky objets and collectors’ items.

The Decorative, along with other UK antiques fairs, has been experiencing increased visitor numbers this year, a sign of growing interest amongst the public in the more traditional areas of art and design.  Antiques as tangible assets, their ‘green’ credentials and craftsmanship superior to most contemporary high street furniture, as well as value for money, are all major reasons for purchasing antique and 20th century design right now.

A feature-length historical background on Chinoiserie is available: Details to follow.