Berkshire, UK - The Booking Form for pitches at Salvo Fair 2012 can be downloaded on the link below. The twelfth Salvo fair will be held at Stubbings Estate in Berkshire and is open to the public on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th June 2012. The Trade day is on Friday 22nd June 2012 to which dealers, decorators, construction professionals, developers, builders, landscapers and journalists will be welcome. There are normally around 80 exhibitors, many of whom are supporters of the Salvo Code for good practice in stock purchasing.
The Salvo Fair is a selling trade fair to which the public are invited. Zones include architectural salvage and reclaimed building materials, garden and decorative antiques, recraft retro steampunk vintage and mid-century modern, craftspeople and green building. The fair is organised by Ruby Hazael of Salvo Llp.
Salvo Fair is normally held at Knebworth in Hertfordshire but this year will be held at Stubbings in Berkshire owing to the fabulous Red Hot Chili Peppers booking Salvo's normal summer fair weekend dates at Knebworth.
Stubbings is a Georgian house in Maidenhead Thicket, site of an ancient Celtic farmstead, that became the home of Sir Guy Carleton, first Lord Dorchester, until his death in 1808, to where he retired after a military career in North America culminating as governor of Quebec. Stubbings was then home to the Skrine family, descended from a secretary of Sir Francis Bacon. From 1941-45 it was home to Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands. Stubbings was then bought by Sir Thomas Merton, where he lived until 1969. He was a scientist who helped devise aircraft radar screens during the Battle of Britain. He was also a collector of Italian Renaissance art who famously said, "Pictures are like women. There are quite a number of them which one can admire without wanting to live with them." He also wrote,"'Signal to noise ratio' is a term often used in physics. In fact it applies to everything we try to understand and measure, from the precision with which the deflection of a galvanometer can be read to the amount we can grasp of a conversation at a cocktail party, where the signal is what someone is saying to us and the noise is the integrated chatter of the other guests. It applies also to the fine arts. In what is perhaps one the greatest of all works of art, Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's, it is nearly all signal and no noise, while in the work of the action painters it is all noise and no signal. There is nothing new in the products of the action painters. Leonardo da Vinci in his notes says that 'if you look at any walls spotted with various stains or with a mixture of different kinds of stones, if you are about to invent some scene you will be able to see in it a resemblance to different landscapes adorned with mountains etc., etc., and an infinite number of things which you can reduce into separate and well-conceived forms.' After his death in 1969 his collection was dispersed to Washington National Gallery, Walker Gallery and the Courtauld's Insitutute.
Other changes to Salvo Fair 2012 include
1. Zoning
Up to now bigger stands have been nearer the main entrance, but next year I want to zone the fair with the architectural salvage zone closest to the main entrance irrespective of stand size. Garden antiques would be next nearest. Then modern salvage, retro, vintage and steampunk. Then decorative antiques. Then the rest. The aim would be to make it easier for visitors to appreciate the different sectors of the trade.
2. Reclaimed materials park
The reclaimed stone park worked well this year, bringing reclaimed stone prominently to the front of the fair. Next year we would like to expand this to include a reclaimed wood park. The aim would be to encourage more reclaimed materials to be reused. The reclaimed materials park will be within the architectural salvage zone.
3. Construction professionals CPD day
I spoke to Ian Grant, editor of Sustainable Building magazine, at this year's fair about holding a CPD day for 50 or so mainstream construction professionals. This would comprise of a morning of three or four talks followed by a guided tour around the fair. The aim would be to encourage more professionals to reuse and for the salvage trade to find out from the professionals what the trade can do to make it easier for more to be specified by construction professionals.
4. Best in show
At Salvo Fair 2011 it was suggested by a couple of people that we should acknowledge higher quality stands by presenting a 'best in show' award. Wellers and Gaze have agreed to sponsor a prize. The award would be made according to simple criteria, for example, the stand which looks best, is truest to reuse, and is best or clearest laid out for visitors.
5. Ad hoc fair committee
Salvo has formed an ad hoc fair committee comprised of a group of longstanding Salvo Fair architectural salvage stalwarts who also usually book early - currently Jason and Nadine Davies of Architectural Forum, Dean Cannadine of Architectural Salvage Source, Guy Trench of Antiques By Design, Julian Sims of Morways Reclamation, Justin Miles-Booy of Arc Reclamation and Lawrence Skilling of Chancellors Church Antiques - which we hope may help to improve Salvo Fair 2012.
(Download the pdf Booking Form using the link below.)
Salvo Fair 2012
Salvo Fair 2012: Booking Form (2.7MB pdf)
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