What’s New In Antiques: Does That Make Sense?

What’s “New” In Antiques… In London 2010 & 2011

It seems a little bit paradoxical to talk about newness in the antiques business.  But the truth is that antiques follow fashion as much as almost everything else so there’ always something new  – in the sense of being newly popular or available.  And that’s what you’ll find at London’s Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair (set in Battersea Park’s events marquee from September 28th to 3rd October 2010 and three times next year) – alongside the traditional antiques too of course.

Just like the trad three piece suit, there always classic and permanently admired and desired furnishings and art; from clasic periods, either based on quality of design, quality of manufacture or craft (or it’s folk equivalent) or on the “quality” or provenance of the contemporary history.  And of course what goes in people’s homes, office, hotels and public buildings.  And that’s the key to novelty…

Whilst time keeps moving forward (annoyingly sometimes), more design periods become “old”.  So you do get modern and post-war antiques becoming collectable and desirable. Meanwhile fashions in interior design change and the things that go – or wonderfully contrast – change too:  That’s when you see new trends and design schools evolving.  And that’s why people love the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair with antiques and furnishings from the massive and traditional to the mini and “modern”.  We call it “interesting”.