January Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair… Best Ever?

Date: January 2010.  Place: Battersea Park, London.  Outcome: A Great Success

The Winter 2010 Decorative Fair showed no signs of a freeze!  As the first outing of the year of the Antiques Fair’s 25th anniversary held from 19-24 January at the Marquee in Battersea Park, showed no signs of the recent ‘big freeze’ in London & England this January.

Sales at the Decorative Fair were many and buoyant. The exhibitors, our lovely dealers, commented on how impressed they were with the footfall and that they met and sold to many new customers.

Visitor numbers were again up on any previous fair and the weekend, which is usually not as busy as the opening day, was incredibly busy, with as many visitors on the Saturday as the opening day on Tuesday.

The next Fair is the Spring event which takes place 20-25 April 2010, and will feature a fantasy garden foyer courtesy of long-term Fair exhibitor & sculptor Robert Barley.  Check the website page Visitors: Decorative Fair.

Robert has been an exhibitor at the Decorative Fair and many other leading Fairs for over 25 years, but his pastime has long been creating sculptures using found objects and precious artefacts. He has always loved the idiosyncratic collectors and Kunstkammers of old, and after a youthful visit to the Pitti Palace in Florence he was inspired to create his own pieces using small precious and curious objects collected over the years, which he combines with found objects from beachcombing the world.