Posts under ‘Decorative & Painted Furniture’

Fancy “antique fairing” this weekend  Don’t worry if you haven’t yet been to the Decorative Fair this spring… there’s still until 7pm tonight (see you there) or ther’s all day tomorrow and Sunday – Saturday 27th April from 11am – 7pm ans Sunday 28th from 11am – 6pm. Meanwhile there are 140 antiques & collectible [...]

That’s the Decorative Fair for you… Even though this looks like a bit like a composite (or a “comp” as they used to say in the old days), it is just a photo of two adjacent exhibitors at  last month’s Decorative Fair in Battersea, London. It illustrates the variety of the stands at the fair, though it’s [...]

European Antiques: Furniture & Sculpture French Country Living brought some exceptional pieces to the autumn antiques fair in Battersea Park… including an exceptional late C18th oak table already seen on the Diary. Another fine piece is seen on the left; an 18th century Swedish writing desk with original painted decoration The exceptional French C19th “Sculptor’s Studio” plaster horse, [...]

The width & breadth of The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair Whilst the Fair is aimed at customers looking to decorate their homes, there is an enviable choice for the collector, from tribal works and pictures, to treen, ceramics and glass.  New exhibitor Lisa Tao & Z. Liu Fine Art is bringing a diverse array [...]

The Decorative Fair Starts One Week Today: Battersea Park, London… Another little bit of antique fair/sleb name-dropping… television personality Mark Hill, has chosen The Spring Decorative Fair (one week to go…) to exhibit as his first fair. And to keep up our thoroughly modern millie image you can read all about it and get more up [...]

A Few Photo Momentos From Earlier London Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fairs For those of you not familiar with the offering at the wonderful Decorative Antiques Fair, I thought I’d show some images of exhibitors and visitors from antiques fairs last year. Of course there’ll be new pieces but none of them will be any [...]

Blanchard At London’s Decorative Antiques Fair Orlando Harris has many fans amongst his clientele… “Orlando Harris is a great pleasure to deal with – makes collecting fun with his irreverent eye” says David Linley, and designer to the stars Nicky Haslam comments: “Orlando has the most exceptional eye and an amazing knack for finding rare [...]

Quirky & Eclectic at The Decorative Fair… Drew Pritchard joins the Decorative Antique Fair from Conwy in Wales, with a pleasing variety of architectural, garden, decorative & country house antiques. The photo Drew has sent us of gives a good idea of the slightly quirky look and of the mix of stock he will bring [...]

Some Antiques Are 1960′s: Some Antiques Are 380 Million Years Come to the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in London’s Battersea May 3-8th 2011 and you can see another of our previous & experienced exhibitors. Jonathan Swire was one of the dealers who first brought fossils as ‘sculpture’ to the Decorative Fair.  These have become very [...]

Haute Decor & Design Blogs About Our Antique & Textiles Fair – Nice Pictures… I hope that Maria doesn’t mind but I’ve borrowed one of her pictures… you can see the rest at her Haute Decor blog.  The pictures are better than mine so before I show some of these, look at this  – just [...]