36 24th September 2011 dealers’ dossier
Battersea show with even higher designs
■ Themed display at autumn show highlights best of British
TERRIERS posing on wingback chairs, taxidermy in painted French armoires, statement lighting and a modish crowd. It can only mean the Battersea Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair is back in its marquee from September 27 to October 2. For 25 years, this good-looking fair
in Battersea Park has attracted a mix of local, and not so local, private buyers who generally know their Wegner from their Ponti, and is a regular haunt of interior designers. The numbers and buying habits of the latter at each fair are looked to as a bellwether by exhibitors. There is always a foyer display at the
entrance to the marquee, and this year, to coincide with the anniversary of the 1951 Festival of Britain, the theme is Festival Influences: British Design ‘51 to ‘61. The intention is to show how the
festival influenced the design of the following decade, using furniture, textiles, pictures and accessories chosen from the fair’s exhibitors of 20th century design, all of which will be offered for sale. Although the fair will occupy the same
footprint, there will be 142 exhibitors this time around (an increase from 135 last autumn) as some of the stands have been reconfigured to fit more people in. Seven exhibitors travel from the Continent, and 11 are new this year,
Above: c.1950 British poster advertising Post Office Savings,2ft 1in x 2ft 7in (53 x 78 cm), £240.00 from Antikbar.
Left: one of a set of eight rosewood dining chairs by A.J. Milne from 1947 and manufactured by Mines & West Ltd, £7800 from 52 Meters at the Battersea Decorative fair.
while quite a few return again after an absence. The new London-based exhibitors
are: Lucy B. Campbell Fine Art from Kensington Church Street (contemporary pictures and sculpture); David Inglesis of Gallery 25, (20th century decorative arts) from the Pimlico Road; Orlando Harris (decorative period furniture); Timothy Langston (period furniture); Julian Machin (pictures and frames); Christopher Shepperd Glass of Kensington Church Street; and Ron Simpson (tribal textiles, jewellery and baskets from South West China and Indonesia). Showing here for the first time from
outside London are Drew Pritchard of Conwy (a mix of architectural, garden and general antiques), Holly Johnson of Macclesfield (19th and 20th century furniture and works of art), Geoffrey Stead from the Cotswolds (17th to 19th century European furniture and works of art) and, from Belgium, Peter Sohier (decorative antiques and garden ornaments).
Kiki Design
www.kikidesign.co.uk
Style and design with timeless elegance. Harmonising interiors with antique and C20th furniture, mirrors, lighting, objects and works of art.
See us at: Stand 3 at the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair, Battersea Park, 27th Sept - 2nd October
or
visit our shop: 1 Pound Street, Petworth, West Sussex GU28 0DX
Contact Sarah Roelich T: +44 (0)1798 343 745 M: +44 (0)7798 813 932 E:
info@kikidesign.co.uk
20TH CENTURY
Showcasing Vintage, Retro, Decorative Items and Affordable Antiques from a variety of UK and European dealers. For more information please contact us at
info@thehoarde.com. We welcome dealers with good internet and picture skills
There are also quite a few dealers
who have exhibited here before and have decided to come back this year to give the fair another go. They include Anthony Cole from Warminster (period furniture and 20th century art); Robin Cox of Stamford (period furniture, sculpture and early wood carvings); Hampton Antiques, Northampton (tea caddies and boxes); Alex Macarthur, Brighton (furniture and accessories “from 17th century ecclesiastical to 20th century industrial”); Richard Steenberg from Core One (country house antiques) and Alexander von Westenholz from Lillie Road (mainly 19th century English furniture, pictures and taxidermy). The drop off in American buyers
visiting the UK’s fairs and dealers since 9/11 has been referred to time and again in these pages, and the Battersea fairs have not escaped unscathed, missing particularly the US decorators who have long been so key to business here. But, nevertheless, some of the big
names do still make the trip and those who were spotted buying at the May
fair included Michael Smith, currently commissioned to re-decorate the White House; the British born but LA-based Kathryn Ireland, and LA-based Michael Lawrence-Bullard. British interior design companies –
Colefax & Fowler, Candy & Candy and Paul Smith and Ralph Lauren retail – also come here to buy, and the decorator count at the autumn fair is often higher, thanks to the timely crossover with Decorex International. This key fair for the interior design trade takes place just over the Thames at Royal Hospital Chelsea from September 25 to 28, immediately after the close of the London Design Festival, currently underway at various venues across the capital until this Sunday, September 25, which also draws the world’s designers to London. After trying a late night opening at
the May event, the Battersea Decorative fair will again open later on the first day, from 12pm to 9pm on Tuesday September 27, to allow for some post- work shopping.
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