Bench bonkers at Salvo Fair

Cox's Yard English made GWR benches with reclaimed timber seats will be at Salvo Fair this summer

Hertfordshire, UK - This year at Salvo Fair there will be many things to feast your eyes on and have a good rummage through. Cox's Yard have had a stand at Salvo Fair for so many years we have lost count! They have alway...

Retro kitchen biz is excellent but Source is closing retail shop

Restored 1950s Paul Metalcraft kitchen [photo © Source Antiques

Somerset, UK - Rod Donaldson of Source Antiques in Bath is closing his Green Park Station retail shop at he end of May after more than two years trading, or not trading, there. "We gave it a fair shout," Rod said...

Are You a Salvage Hunter?

Are You a Salvage Hunter? Karyn Sparks, Antique Explorer June 2013 Page 1

Hertfordshire, UK - Karyn Sparks from Antique Explorer has written a wonderful three page preview of this year's Salvo Fair, with photos of the curved ceiling lights that Architectural Forum are bringing along, the early...

Salvo Fair in June\'s Period Living

Treasure Hunting by Jackie Herald, Period Living June 2013

Hertfordshire, UK - This month's Period LIving magazine features a fab four page article on Salvo Fair, including interviews with newcomers Louisa Sugden from Sugden and Daughters, and Salvo Fair stalwarts Tina Bryan fro...

Head north for Ripley Salvage Show, south for Fawley Steam Fair

Old windows from Philip Silius will be at Ripley [photo © ASFairs

North Yorkshire, UK - Arthur Swallow's second Ripley show is on this weekend and it's strapline is 'An eye for style and a concern for the environment?' Here is more:

Ripley Castle is the place to be for th...

Win tickets to Salvo Fair 2013 or buy them online!

Antique garden ornament and decorative doors at Salvo Fair, Knebworth, back in the days when it was actually sunny in the summer!

Hertfordshire, UK - The annual Salvo Fair, the world's only architectural salvage fair, will take place on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June in the deer park at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire. Around eighty dealers...

Grand Designs Live warming to reuse

Kevin McCloud at GDL NEC 2012 [photo © GDL

London East, UK - The media rep for the 1.9m Freegle community, Cat Fletcher from Newhaven, is this year's flagship reuse speaker. She was unkindly described by the Daily Mail as the human womble because she furnished ...

V&V Rec & Architectural Forum auction catalogue now live

One of two 1920's curved stained glass skylights coming to Salvo Fair by Architectural Forum, who is also having an auction at V&V Reclamation in Hertford on 10-11 May.

Hertfordshire, UK - The Architectural Forum in Islington, London, and its sister company, V&V Reclamation from Hertfordshire, are holding a 1,400 lot auction of interior and exterior architectural salvage and reclamation...

Good start for Battersea

Guy Trench's old marsh man boot lamp at Decorative Antiques Fair [photo: Guy Trench

London South West, UK - Longtime Decorative Antiques Fair Exhibitor, Guy Trench from Antiques By Design has sent through his on-the-ground comments and photos directly from the Fair itself. He says 'I have had a very good st...

Brocante Fair at Nonsuch Mansion

Surrey, UK - In a world where so much is superficial and transitory, Nikki Page delights in searching out pieces, which are beautiful, original and timeless. One of Nikki's earliest recollections is of saving her ...