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THE SPRING DECORATIVE
ANTIQUES & TEXTILES FAIR
The Decorative Antiques & Textiles
Fair is London’s largest and most
diverse antiques event, with more than
150 exhibitors from the UK and Europe.
Held three times a year, it offers an
unparalleled selection of period design
from the 1700s to the 1970s, and is a
destination event for international
decorators, collectors and styleconscious
private buyers.
Catering to all tastes and with an eye
for the unusual, exhibitors offer fine and
decorative furniture and interior
accessories, art, sculpture, garden
artefacts, architectural elements,
jewellery, curiosities and objets trouvés.
Stands are decorated to inspire and
delight, with exciting ideas on how to
incorporate distinctive antiques at home
The Spring Decorative Antiques &
Textiles Fair returns to the marquee in
Battersea Park from 4-9 April. The foyer
display will focus on the rising trend for
a new area in the home that combines
our love of bringing the outdoors inside
with a tranquil space reclaimed for
grown-ups away from the hubbub of
open-plan living, designed as an escape
from daily chores. Traditionally called
The Morning Room, at the Spring 2017
Fair it will be created as an extension of
a contemporary kitchen/living room.
Goldstein Mirror by Simon Rohrer of
Liverpool, c.1880
Galerie Arabesque:
French porcelain tureen 1860
The Morning Room Revisited, in its
own stand at the entrance to the Fair, will
show items selected from exhibitors, all
for sale, including beautiful ideas for
displaying a favourite collection of
decorative ceramics or glass; garden
urns for growing herbs and favourite
plants year-round; a florist’s table, and a
seating sanctuary to view the garden or
outside vistas.
Catering to all tastes, exhibitors offer
fine and formal antiques, decorative
period furniture, unusual accessories
from all eras including lighting, mirrors,
ceramics, metalware, silver and glass,
20th century designer pieces, traditional,
modern and contemporary art and
sculpture, garden artefacts and
architectural elements, antique and fine
costume jewellery, curiosities, toys,
collectables and objets trouvés. Stands
are decorated by the dealers to inspire
and delight, giving visitors exciting
ideas about how to incorporate
distinctive antiques and period design in
their own homes.
For further information, telephone
020 7616 9327 or visit the website at
www.decorativefair.com
WEIR TAKES SIXTH SUCCESSIVE
SILVERSTONE VICTORY
David Weir took his sixth successive
win at the 2017 adidas Silverstone Half
Marathon on Sunday as part of his
build-up towards the London Marathon
in April. The multiple Paralympic
champion was the first racer across the
Finish Line at the world-famous
Silverstone circuit in a time of 47:30 on
a damp and drizzly day that saw
thousands of runners race at the home
of British motorsport.
In the women’s wheelchair race, Nikki
Emerson took her fourth Silverstone win,
finishing in 65:38, while in the mass
race David Hudson took the victory in
the men’s race in 72:15, with Tori Green
first woman in 82:21.
Like so many of the runners taking
part in the race, Weir was using the
event to test his fitness ahead of the
Virgin Money London Marathon in April
when he will target his seventh win at
the London Marathon, which would
make him the race’s most successful
ever competitor.
In the women’s wheelchair race, Nikki
Emerson took her fourth victory, after
winning the first three editions of the
event between 2009 and 2011.
Another famous face taking on the
half marathon challenge was actor Adam
Woodyatt, who plays Ian Beale in the hit
BBC soap EastEnders. Woodyatt is also
preparing to run his first marathon in
London in April, when he will run
alongside his son Sam to support the
Air Ambulance Service. The pair agreed
to run for the charity last summer but, in
a cruel twist of fate, Sam ended up
relying on an air ambulance when he
was hit by a car in September and
rushed to hospital.
Sam is now on the road to recovery
and determined to run the marathon
alongside his famous dad who admits,
whatever Sam's fitness, his son will still
be the first Woodyatt to cross the Finish
Line on The Mall in April.
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