Antiques Trade Gazette 73 fairs & markets
Persuading the British that glass can be art…
Joan Porter reports
THE glowing profile of collectable glass – enhanced by the British Glass Biennale and the 12 key exhibitions wrapped round it at the International Festival of Glass at Stourbridge back in August/September– gets another boost this Sunday with the National Glass Fair.
This biannual 20-year-old specialist fair run by Paul
Bishop at the National Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham, is the most important in the calendar and features around 100 dealers, some of whom only exhibit at this fair. Mr Bishop said: “This is primarily antique glass with a strong showing of contemporary glass, unlike the Cambridge Glass Fair which has a separate section of contemporary glass.” According to BBC’s Antiques Roadshow glass
expert Andy McConnell, contemporary glass doesn’t
generally appeal to those who collect the more traditional areas of glass, but, increasingly, there is some overlap. He said: “The British, who have
traditionally viewed ‘artistic’ glass with trepidation and suspicion, are slowly being won over towards the viewpoint that glass can formed into fine art.” At the National this Sunday, November
14, Andrew Lineham will have some rare early 20th century perfume bottles, and for the contemporary, glassmaker Jonathan Harris is offering his silver
graal Dawn Chorus vase at £695. Adding to the interest in glass are the
many new books, some of them keenly esoteric, such as Ivo Haanstra’s Blue Henry: The Almost Forgotten Story of the Blue Glass Sputum Flask, published by Cortex Design at £16, which will be launched at the fair.
www.glassfairs.com Telephone Paul Bishop on 07887
762872.
Left: Austrian c.1900 Arts & Crafts liqueur glass with polychrome enamel – £660 from Andrew Lineham at the National Glass Fair.
Above: this Arden solid ash sideboard will cost £1925 from award-winning designer Chris Eckersley at the Midcentury Modern Show at Dulwich College this weekend.
Midcentury dealers to take opening stand at Lord’s
THE hallowed home of cricket is the latest new London venue for the go-ahead Midcentury Modern shows launched seven years ago by former fashion journalist Petra Curtis and graphic designer Lucy Ryder Richardson. Still the only specialist fair to mix vintage and contemporary design, it will be seen at Lord’s Cricket Ground next spring. Petra said: “We’ve been looking for quite a while as we have so many potential customers who won’t step south of the river! It’s a great location and the Lord’s Nursery Pavilion is a good building with lots of natural light.” The venture has come a long way since the two began selling 1960s and ‘70s
furniture and lighting from their own homes. They now run their biannual fairs at Dulwich College, South London, at the Modernist De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on Sea, East Sussex, and, more recently, at Bristol’s Paintworks. This Sunday, November 14, it’s back to Dulwich when the vintage/modern mix will be handled by 56 dealers and 32 contemporary designers, reflecting the rise of retro retail – Petra and Lucy started with 30 dealers and 12 designers. Dealers on Sunday include The Modern Warehouse with mid-century design
furniture from Scandinavia and Skinflint Design with industrial lighting. Among those catering for the contemporary are award-winning furniture designer Chris Eckersley whose wheelbarrow-cum-garden seat was picked by Sir Terence Conran for his 2008 book Inspirations, and People Will Always Need Plates, aka Hannah Dipper and Robin Farquhar, designers of limited edition plates with unusual themed designs including examples of 1930s Modernist architecture in London.
Leaders of the pack
THE ambition of many in the trade to attract the interest of the young in antiques, is taken to new lengths during National Antiques Week’s by Oxford centre Antiques on High – it’s organising a pow-wow with local
Hooked on angling...
SHOWN left is a c.1900 photograph of fishing in the Thames from the archives of the Brunswick Brothers Angling Club, London’s oldest fishing club, which was formed by dockers at the Brunswick Dock in the 1880s. Ephemera such as this will be for sale at the National Vintage Tackle Fair, the biannual specialist fair which has its autumn outing on Sunday November 21 at the Abbey Stadium Sports Centre in Redditch, spiritual home of British tackle manufacturers, including Allcock, Milward and W. Young. Sponsored by Angling Auctions, dealers and collectors at the fair will also offer vintage rods, cased fish, paintings, books, floats and much else to reel in the piscatorial collector. Tel: 07980 274 383.
Brownies. Vintage costume jewellery dealer Caroline Henney and paintings specialist Pat Stilton, will visit a pack in Headington and talk to the seven-to-ten year olds about the joys of antiques. Caroline said: “We’ll take pieces
from the centre with some history which we think will interest them like button hooks, pocket watches, a fruit knife and Roman coins and we’ll start them off on a collector’s merit badge, returning a few weeks later to test them for the award.’’ An added attraction at the centre
during the week will be a display of posters illustrating antiques produced by the Brownies who will also be asked to define an antique in their own words. Antiques on High regularly uses its
windows to promote the dealers’ stock using themes such as music, the sea and the East. For National Antiques Week there will be a selection of “value for money” antiques.
www.antiquesonhigh.co.uk Tel: 01865 251075.
www.nationalantiquesweek.co.uk
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