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and encourage people to take a bolder, more expansive approach to collecting and furnishing. A commercial art fair can play a didactic role and be part of a wider process of changing tastes.” But he is keen to stress that despite
these shows of contemporary design and an influx of new exhibitors of Modern British and contemporary art dealers: “There is a perception that we’re only interested in the 20th and 21st centuries, which we’re absolutely not – around 75- 80% of our exhibitors deal in traditional decorative arts and furniture and this is still at the core of the event.” Looking at the figures, the fair is a
touch larger this year, with the latest official figure being ‘over 160 exhibitors’ compared to approximately 151 in 2011 and 118 at the first event. There is a pretty high turnaround of exhibitors within that too, with 41 new dealers at the last count for 2012, including a few TEFAF regulars. There is a more global flavour this year,
and what’s distinctive about the new sign-ups is the number of international, particularly American, dealers debuting – the fair has an American committee for the first time to foster transatlantic relations, with co-chairs including the designer Rose Tarlow, who is treated with the reverence of a visiting dignitary on her buying trips to fairs. New American dealers this year
include The Silver Fund, Sperone Westwater, Siegelson, Collisart LLC, Geoffrey Diner Gallery, Fred Leighton, Sebastian + Barquet, and The Merrin Gallery, Inc. There are also a handful of Italians
(Chiale Antiquariato, Alberto Di Castro, Galleria Cesare Lampronti, Il Quadrifoglio and Riccardo Bacarelli) alongside some Munich-based exhibitors (Hemmerle, Röbbig München and Rudigier Alte Kunst) and a couple of Parisians (Applicat-Prazan and Pascal Izarn). Belgian dealer De Backker Medieval
Art, Oslo-based art gallery Kaare Berntsen, Spanish jeweller Deborah Elvira and Zurich clock specialist Richard Redding Antiques also join. But the majority of first-timers are
London-based, predominantly art galleries, including James Hyman
Nathaniel has designs on Dover Street Market
Above: Untitled (French Landscape with Castle) by John Piper (1903-92), c.1957 oil on canvas, £15,000 from Osborne Samuel at Masterpiece.
Repeat attendances in other areas
“What’s distinctive about the new sign-ups is the number of international, particularly American, dealers debuting”
Gallery, Christopher Wood Gallery, Waterhouse & Dodd Ltd, Whitfield Fine Art, Crane Kalman and Aktis Gallery. Eclectic art and design dealer Peter Petrou, carpets dealer C. John and, adding to the ‘boys toys’ appeal of the fair, Harley Davidson dealership Shaw Speed & Custom from East Sussex also add to the mix. And the regular dealers? They include
London names such as art dealers Dickinson, Agnew’s, Offer Waterman, MacConnal-Mason and Osborne Samuel, as well as a clutch of period furniture dealers including Peter Lipitch, Anthony Fell, Butchoff and Ronald Philips. A personal favourite are the stylishly
designed stands of the antiquities specialists, among them Londoners Rupert Wace and Charles Ede, New York’s Safani Gallery and Switzerland’s Cahn International.
include sculpture and works of art dealers Tomasso Brothers Fine Art (Leeds) and Univers du Bronze (Paris); London-based Asian dealers Jacqueline Simcox, Jorge Welsh Oriental Porcelain & Works of Art and Susan Ollemans; N.&I. Franklin of London with silver; London clock dealer Anthony Woodburn and Adrian Sassoon, also from London, who chooses his contemporary pieces of British studio ceramics, glass and metalwork for this fair. That’s the art and antiques, but luxury
goods are, as mentioned earlier, a big part of this event. Big cars and big rocks are back again,
with jewellery from Wartski, Hancocks and Symbolic & Chase, as well as some pretty sexy horsepower from the likes of Rolls-Royce and Duncan Hamilton & Co with historic cars. Ruinart are Masterpiece’s champagne
partners for the second year and will take a stand too, exhibiting portraits by the Israeli-born artist Gideon Rubin, which are painted onto old Ruinart presentation boxes. The glitzy Masterpiece London
Midsummer Party takes place this year on Thursday, June 28, in aid of the cancer charity CLIC Sargent.
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AS you may be aware, the young dealer Emma Hawkins has a concession within Dover Street Market, the fashion label Comme des Garçons’ irreverently cool department store in Mayfair, where she displays her signature eccentric stock of antiques and taxidermy. For some years now taxidermy has
enjoyed a renewed popularity, fitting with a taste for macabre Victoriana and the bizarre – just look at the tongue-in-cheek interiors of so many trendy London bars and boutiques, often adorned with taxidermy picked up by decorators in auction rooms. Althugh not a taxidermy specialist,
Nathaniel Lee-Jones (see 10 Questions) is another young dealer with eclectic and often macabre tastes and his shop, M. Goldstein on Hackney Road in Shoreditch, is packed with all manner of art, antiques and vintage clothing. Nathaniel has just been asked to create a
window installation for Dover Street Market from June 23 to July 10, coinciding with the major art sales series at the nearby auction houses. “After visiting M. Goldstein on numerous
occasions, the creative team at Comme des Garçons offered us the opportunity to present and curate our selection of unusual and decorative objects in their window,” Nathaniel told me. “We are excited to be associated with
such an individual brand and to have the opportunity to display some unusual aspects of our shop to a new audience in Mayfair.” The title of the installation is Scale &
Distortion and, by the sounds of what Nathaniel is intending to include (all of which will be for sale), it will be truly bizarre. The centrepiece will be the giant robot, Cygan, an 8ft (2.4m) tall relic of the Atomic
LAPADA announce their Object of the Year winners
AN intricate 17th century beadwork basket, celebrating the Restoration of the English monarchy from Witney Antiques was announced as this year’s winner of the Country Life/LAPADA Object of the Year award during the Olympia International Fine Art & Antiques Fair last week. Second place was awarded to Lucas Rarities’ turban brooch designed by Paul Iribe in 1911 and
joint third prize went to a billiard table made for Lord James Blyth, founder of Gilbey’s Gin, in c.1890 from Billiard Room Antiques and Peter Petrou’s 1930s bent plywood armchair by Gerald Summer. The People’s Vote, selected online by members
of the public, went to Captain Blackwood’s trunk, submitted by Christopher Clarke Antiques, which had been at Waterloo and where its owner
lost his life. In second place was an Olympic Gold medal awarded at the 1912 Stockholm Games to Henry Maitland Macintosh for the 4-100m relay, whose grandson Patrick Macintosh of Nadin & Macintosh submitted the piece. Piglet and Pooh from Peter Harrington
Antiquarian Books, a pair of prototype soft toys made in 1930, took third.
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