The Decortaive Fair
May 9-14
Battersea Park, London
www.decorativefair.com

BATTERSEA, LONDON — Celebrate the arrival of spring at the United Kingdom’s most beautiful antiques, design and art fair, and the interiors event of the season. The Decorative Fair returns to leafy Battersea Park the week after the coronation of King Charles III for its spring edition, May 9-14, with an added focus on garden antiques found throughout the 130 stands.

Savvy style hunters and leading professional design and trade buyers flock to the fair to snap up unusual and one-off items of furniture and decoration for interiors and exteriors. With pieces for sale dating from the Seventeenth Century to the 1970s, a myriad of tastes are tempted: from extraordinary to understated, opulent to folksy, formal to fun. Paintings, prints, posters and sculpture are also on offer, from classic to contemporary. Prices at the fair range from under $50 to more than $50,000.

The Fair Foyer Feature will focus on early English furniture, textiles and objects both of, and inspired by, the period of the first two King Charles’ in the Seventeenth Century, displayed with later items in an informal country room setting. The display will include still life paintings of all periods from the 1600s to the contemporary. Expect simple English wood tables, coffers and chairs mixed with comfortable later seating and accessories in a timeless space.

Shop for sustainable, expertly crafted heirloom designs that have stood the test of time, and bring a unique sense of history to interiors and exteriors alike.

A number of exciting new exhibitors join this fair: Anthony James & Son Ltd (London): Member of BADA & LAPADA, specializes in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century furniture, objects and decorative items.

Cal Smith Gallery (London) is a dealer of Modernist and Brutalist artworks with a particular focus on relief wall sculptures. He is a trained restorer and conservation framing expert. Cal will be presenting his large collection of exceptional works by the late Ron Hitchins (1926-2019).

Florence Evans Fine Art (London) is an art dealer and art historian specializing in Twentieth Century British pictures, sculpture and ceramics, with a focus on female artists.

From Dorsett, Holtby & Co is a young dealer specializing in unusual country house furniture, antiques and objects from the Sixteenth through Twentieth Centuries.

Hailing from Hertfordshire and members of both BADA and LAPADA is Loveday Antiques, which for more than 50 years has specialized in furniture from the Eighteenth through Twentieth Centuries, as well as objects and works of art.

For the garden, discover unusual decorative objects, sculpture, planters and furniture with dealers such as Muse The Sculpture Company who specialize in contemporary bronzes and large-scale works to commissions for outdoor spaces; Wakelin & Linfield who favor elegant ironwork decoration such as étagères (open shelves for displaying potted plants), benches and urns; Inglis-Hall Antiques where folk art weathervanes can often be found; The Home Bothy and Vagabond for stone and marble statuary pieces; D.J. Green Antiques for all manner of planters and garden pottery; Garden Artefacts with antique and vintage garden ephemera; and Violet Grey for decorative urns, garden ceramics and garden furniture.

The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair has a relaxed and laid-back ambiance, where professional designers and trade buyers rub shoulders with private clients and international collectors of all ages. A Trade Shopping Service is available, pre-booking is required. The fair opens midday on Tuesday, May 9, and continues through Sunday, May 14. For more information, www.decorativefair.com/spring-fair/.

Trade and Collectors can shop the Fair remotely with an experienced professional. Advance booking required. Go to decorativefair.com/trade-shopping/
ANTIQUES, DESIGN & ART FOR INTERIOR DECORATION