Castle attraction puts Mike on the road again
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ANTIQUES fairs in picturesque locations are popular with both visitors and standholders – the elegance of a stately home making a welcome change, and quite possibly a money-making one, from the more usual soulless marquee or cavernous exhibition hall. Somerset-based organiser Sue Ede of
Cooper Fairs, who has more experience than most in these matters, certainly seems to favour the idea. Twice a year, she crosses the border
to Devon for The Powderham Castle Antiques & Fine Art Fair at the stately pile near Exeter, which has been home to the Courtenay family for more than 600 years. The next fair is from November 19 to
21. Once again, it is fully booked with 38 dealers – five of them making their Powderham debuts – and the variety of fare here reflects the lack of datelines. Period furniture from Devon dealers
J. Collins & Son can be seen alongside 20th century design from the local
Above left: this 1970s buffalo hide sofa was made by De Sede of Switzerland in the 1970s and James Gould from Apollo, the Ashburton dealers, will ask £2250 for it at the Powderham Castle fair. Above right: J. Collins & Son from Bideford, Devon will take this elegant piece of George III furniture, a gentleman’s washstand in mahogany, to Powderham Castle, with a price tag of £1850.
Ashburton dealers Apollo Antiques and, to some degree bridging the gap, Gazelles of Lyndhurst with Art Deco. This year, the fair has lost some
competition in the form of the Devon County Antiques Fair at Exeter’s Westpoint exhibition arena, and the promise is that there will be something for most pockets, from £30 to £10,000. Powderham is just off the M5,
therefore a convenient destination for visitors from across the South West from Dorset to Cornwall. Ease of journey to a distant fair will
be welcome to one of the first-time standholders, the Salisbury-based illustration specialists Books Illustrated. At last month’s NEC Antiques For Everyone fair last month, the firm’s
directorMike Emeny explained that he and his wife Hilary no longer have a gallery but had decided to experiment with standing at numerous UK fairs for the first time this year. After a successful time at LAPADA
Berkeley Square, they have barely been off the road and at the NEC they were fresh from Caroline Penman’s Chester fair, before heading to Ingrid Nilson’s Tankersley Manor event then up to Scone Palace for a Galloway fair. All of which adds a familiarity with
Britain’s road network to the useful knowledge bank but it does sound tiring. However, according to Mike, this fairs
campaign has so far proved fruitful and is set to roll on.
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6. And the worst? The mileage.
7. Biggest mistake? An ill-judged joke that cost me a good customer and a friend.
8. What’s your dream object? In my case a ‘dream come true’. After a visit to the Royal Geographic Society when I was 17, I had a dream about finding a copy of Matteo Ricci’s majestic world map of 1602. I sold one to the James Ford Bell Library in Minnesota last year.
9. Finest hour? Buying the Gestetner collection of sea atlases and voyages: the content of Catalogue 1 (out now!).
10. Guiltiest pleasure? Getting high on my own supply: I am an obsessive collector of maps, books, and prints relating to Oxford and Oxfordshire.
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DANIEL CROUCH of Daniel Crouch Rare Books, Oxford
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1. What do you deal in? Rare atlases, maps, charts, voyages and globes.
2. How long have you been dealing? Twenty years. Two months under my own name.
3. Do you do any fairs? I have just finished The International Fine Art & Antiques Dealers Show, New York and we are planning our schedule for 2011.
4. First job? As a map seller at Sanders of Oxford when I was at still at school.
5. Best thing about being a dealer? I get to do my hobby for a job.
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