The Decorative Fair returns to Battersea Park from Tuesday 3 to Sunday 8 October 2023. Highly anticipated by the interior design world and collectors, the 135 exhibitors showing this Autumn have an eye for the most exciting and unusual objects and works of art, and the many dealers in decorative antiques and 20th century design understand what is currently in vogue. Consequently, the interiors community makes a beeline to Battersea three times a year to source for their projects, and pick up the best examples of antiques and 20th century design on the market today.
English C18th Chippendale style rococo mirror, from a past Fair.
The Fair’s welcoming foyer display sets the tone on arrival. This October it goes Rococo, showcasing designs and works of art in this light-hearted, ornate and fun form of decoration that originated in early 1700s France, and seen recently in TV series such as Marie Antoinette and Bridgerton spin-off Queen Charlotte. Anti-classical in style, rococo features exuberant swirling scrolls, and elaborate usually asymmetrical naturalistic outlines – amorphous, organic, shell-like shapes, referred to as ‘rocaille’ in France – hence the term Rococo. The Foyer display is sponsored by Parker & Jules wallpapers and Mylands paints.
New exhibitor, Spitalfields House
New Exhibitors
The Organisers are delighted to welcome a number of brilliant new exhibitors this Autumn:
Ken Bolan Studio (Wiltshire): the legendary former Talisman offers inimitable style, a mix of modern & decorative pieces, rare antiques & continental furniture, sculptures & paintings.
Spitalfields House (London): Country house grandeur on a townhouse scale: an erudite collection of C18th and C19th English and continental furniture and works of art
The Swedish Rug Company (London): Scandinavian ‘folk art’ rugs, flatweave runners and larger rugs dating from the 1900’s to the 1970’s
Schmid McDonagh (London): Dealers in C20th and C21st objects, furniture, jewellery, art, design and books
King & Country (London): Specialist in antique Louis Vuitton luggage & luxury travel accessories, unusual decorative items & rare collectables for the study, games room & bar
Flora Black Ltd (London): Decorative selection of vintage and antique vases, ornaments and art
Han Collection, Museum Street, London: exceptional Korean contemporary art & antiques
L Prentice Art & Antiques, Old Spitalfields Market and The Old Cinema Chiswick: British painting and sculpture of the 1950s to 70s; folk art and studio ceramics
New exhibitor, Ken Bolan Studios
These join the many regular participants who show at all three Fairs each year, and some well-loved returnees, bringing exhibitor numbers to 135 across the ground floor.
Martin D. Johnson returns to the Fair, and offers this historic Windsor Castle Desk.
Up on the mezzanine
A New Event – Arriving at Battersea up on the mezzanine for the first time is specialist fair Tribal Art London, the long-established and only premier UK event for collectors and admirers of original tribal and ethnographic art and artefacts. Enjoy this unique addition to your visit this Autumn.
Discover non-Western art and objects at Tribal Art London Fair
A New Restaurant – A brilliant all-day eatery will be delivered by Bone Idyll, an energetic business making waves in South West London as exciting restaurateurs and event caterers. At the bar, discover the Bone Idyll range of distilled gins and local beer, plus for a touch of fun, they’ll be serving the downstairs coffee area from a vintage French truck.
Bone Idyll will cater the Fair’s new restaurant
The Fair opens at 12:00 on Tuesday 3 October and from 11:00 daily from Wednesday 4 to Sunday 8 October. Opening day tickets cost £20, and £10 thereafter, and can be purchased online here, or at the door on arrival. There is Free Admission to both The Decorative Fair and Tribal Art London from 16:00 daily.
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