The Autumn 2024 edition of The Decorative Fair, 1-6 October in Battersea Park, will be filled with many new faces and some familiar returnees, bringing an added air of discovery to this popular event, and joining the many exhibitors who regularly show three times a year.
The Fair is a key event for interior designers and trade buyers, as well as attracting serious collectors, international buyers and many young clientele who enjoy discovering the unusual alongside an extensive range of practical antiques, design and art. Exhibitors tap in to current interior decorating interests whilst proving a steady source of everlasting styles.
Upstairs on the Mezzanine, discover Tribal Art London, the long-established and only premier UK event for collectors and admirers of original tribal and ethnographic art and artefacts. The international art dealers showing at TAL add a unique dimension to the visitor experience this October.
Among new exhibitors to The Decorative Fair this Autumn are:
- Jay Arenski, one of the UK’s foremost dealers in fine and rare bronzes, furniture, objets d’art and pictures
- Acquired, from Ireland, offering international modern design
- Art itude, with an unusual mix of contemporary brutalist sculpture and C20th design classics
- Gilbert Bannerman, offering antique textiles, folk art and interesting decorative objects
- Alix Chamberlin, leading portraitist (subjects include Lord Ian Botham, Captain Tom, and HRH Prince Philp)
- Chloe Cyphus, with Swedish painted Gustavian antiques and a selection of textiles
- Elliot Davies Fine Art, with rare objects and sculpture from antiquity to classical
- Oliver Newton, purveyor of fine antique silver
- Tom Constantine, juxtaposing fine art and design with an emphasis on colour
- UC Studio, creators of beautiful natural history works of art
- Volver London, with C20th furniture and decorative arts
The Fair Organisers are delighted to welcome back some well-known faces, including Willow Antiques with antiques for interiors and gardens; John Barkes with Ukrainian C20th art; Garret & Hurst Sculpture with bronzes and works by C19th masters; Gallery KIY specialist in historical, small production/one-off and architect-designed C20th furniture plus contemporary art and ceramics; Julian Simon Fine Art specialising in English and Continental paintings from the C18th to C20th; 3details with C20th design, fine art and decorative antiques; Béton Brut with rare, design-led furniture from Europe and Japan; M.Charpentier with French antiques and objets d’art from the C18th to C20th; Rhona Valentine with Fortuny and other antique textiles and tapestries; Stephane Olivier from Paris with decorative European antiques and art; Richard Price & Associates with antique clocks; and Two Poems Gallery, a young dealer championing the decorative arts of the early C20th and British studio ceramics.
Buyers come from around the world to The Decorative Fair, famous for offering the unusual and decorative alongside the practical and perfect. A dream event for shoppers in search of individual looks and one-off items, the Fair is one of the UK’s most exciting antiques, design and interiors events.
It has the widest and most comprehensive range of any premier antiques fair, from modestly-priced and affordable treats to aspirational and important works of art. There is something to tempt everyone amongst the beautiful displays.
Courtesy coaches run from Sloane Square to the Fair four times an hour, and well-behaved dogs on leads are admitted. Admission is £20 p/p on Opening Day (Tuesday 1 October) and £10 p/p thereafter (Wednesday 2 to Sunday 6 October), and includes free return on subsequent days.
Website: www.decorativefair.com
- Opening Times: Tuesday 1 October, 12:00-20:00
- Wednesday 2 October, 11:00-20:00
- Thursday 3 October, 11:00-20:00
- Friday 4 October, 11:00-19:00
- Saturday 5 October, 11:00-19:00
- Sunday 6 October, 11:00-18:00
