Fair News: Discover the finest fairs taking place this month

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From Scotland to the King’s Road, there are a number of cracking events for collectors to get stuck into this month Northern Antiques Fair

Chelsea Antiques Fair

Aiming to recreate the glamour of the King’s Road of the 1960s, the Chelsea Antiques Fair celebrates 70 years this month. Now owned and run by the online antiques platform, 2Covet, the six-day event is set to attract dealers from across the country. Fair organiser, Sophie Wood, said: “It’s very exciting to take the fair forward and we promise visitors there will be a superb display of exhibits on offer.” New fair owners Charles Wallrock, from Wick Antiques, and Steve Sly, a specialist in Meiji period Japanese works of art, will both be taking part in the event from September 21-26 at Chelsea Old Town Hall.

Above Fair organiser Sophie Wood from 2Covet

Right A large Meiji period (1868 -1912), Satsuma pottery sake ewer, on offer from Skipton-based dealer Philip Carrol Antiques Relocating from Harrogate to Leyburn in North Yorkshire, and celebrating 50 years since its inception, the Northern Antiques Fair kicks off on September 30.

The new venue is The Garden Rooms at the auction house Tennants – one of the largest multipurpose venues in the north of England.

More than 40 of the UK’s top dealers will take part in the four-day event, with many having held back items especially for the fair.

Pieces with local provenance are predicted highlights, including a naïve oil painting of a prize shorthorn cow by William Henry Davis (1783-1909), 1852, on sale from Blackbrook Gallery for £6,950.

Above Local interest: WH Davis’ painting of a shorthorn cow near Darlington

The Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair

A bumper edition of the popular fair is promised when more than 150 exhibitors return to a pavilion in Battersea Park from September 28 to October 3. The event regularly welcomes wellheeled buyers including Rita Konig, Alex Polizzi and Nicky Haslam.

A spokeswoman said: “We have seen an explosion of interest in antiques and vintage 20th-century designs as we look for comfort in our homes, with decoration to be treasured.”

Above left A room set from exhibitor Seventeen Twenty One at a recent fair

Below The Garden Rooms at Tennants Auctioneers in Leyburn

Tribal Art London

Previously held at the Mall Galleries, Tribal Art London goes online this month, allowing visitors from around the world to meet exhibitors, listen to lectures, and buy museumquality tribal objects. The virtual event runs from September 22-25 at www.tribalartlondon.com.

A Naga prestige from north eastern India on offer from Bryan Reeves

LAPADA PAVILION

With the prestigious LAPADA Arts and Antiques Fair taking a break from its traditional location at London’s Berkeley Square, dealers are taking part in a number of one-off events, including one in Scotland this month.

Following a successful pop-up at the Game Fair Ragley Hall in Warwickshire in July, the dealers’ association will repeat the experience at the Scottish Game Fair, at Scone Palace, Perthshire from September 24-26.

Organiser, Gillian Pinkham, said: “With 300 exclusive traders exhibiting at the event, business will be brisk, and with the gap year forced last year, demand and anticipation is high.”

Scone Palace in Perthshire is the backdrop for this month’s LAPADA pop-up event