Growing An Antique Fair In The Park

Plant 140 Quality Exhibitors & Sprinkle With Unusual Art & Antiques & Feed With Dsicerning Buyers…

The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair Battersea is one of very few antiques fairs to have continued growing in scale in the last four years, increasing overall the average exhibitor numbers across the three annual fairs  (Winter, Spring, Autumn) from some 125 to 140 (there were 142 at the Autumn 2011 Decoratiuve Fair).  Attendance has been increased too, and sales volumes have remained very buoyant for exhibitors across all shapes & sizes and styles.

The Decorative Fair features a wider range of antiques than ever before, now including a good selection of fine English Georgian furniture from LAPADA and BADA member exhibitors alongside avant garde 1970s pieces such as designs from the Italian-based and museum-collected Memphis Group (the dateline for modern furniture has been extended to 1980).

The core of the Decorative Fair’s stock remains decorative of course, and the painted, upholstered and Continental pieces still serve as ‘bread & butter’ sales for many dealers as they are much loved by interior decorators and home owners looking for more unusual furniture than designer high street stores provide – but at comparable prices.

The variety and quality of art offered for sale has also developed in recent years, with a number of top quality art dealers, both traditional and modern, selling works by internationally-renowned artists at prices that have been known to break the £20,000 price point.  Whilst on the whole visitors may not necessarily view the Fair as a destination for art purchases, sales of art are now considerable, especially at the weekends. Whether customers are buying the art to decorate or as collectors, they are willing to pay good prices for good examples of all styles.