The Decorative Fair: Spring Edition
12 – 17 May 2026 – Highlighting Country Furniture & Garden Antiques in the Foyer Display “A Perfect Potting Shed for Mr. McGregor”
The Spring Decorative Fair is the perfect time to source beautiful items for the garden. Many stands feature a wide range of stone and metal furniture, planters and urns, statuary and decorative objects. After all, why shouldn’t an outside space get the same lovely decoration as an interior?
A whimsical Foyer Display will imagine a ‘perfect potting shed’ for Mr. McGregor (Peter Rabbit’s nemesis in the Beatrix Potter book), combining garden items with vernacular (country) furniture. This summer is the 160th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth, and the story in the Foyer, created in collaboration with Gilbert Bannerman – one of the Fair’s young dealers and scion of the great gardening duo Isabel and Julian Bannerman – will bring together examples of vernacular objects and furniture with garden pieces, presented with a touch of nostalgia. All items will be drawn from exhibitors at the Fair and will be for sale.
Vernacular furniture, both rustic and elevated, as well as objects such as treen (small handmade wooden household and functional objects: Old English for ‘of the tree’) are available from numerous exhibitors at the Fair, dotted among more formal antiques, C20th century design and artworks.
Folk, primitive, rustic, country pieces – referred to as ‘vernacular’ furniture – such as the cricket table shown above, has many champions (think of Kettle’s Yard). Its functionality, blended with honest, hand-made looks give it an authenticity that connects directly with the past. It blends well in simple modern interiors and sits happily alongside contemporary art, and is perfect for country houses and cottage-style interiors.
About The Decorative Fair
The Decorative Fair is the leading event for antiques, design and art in London today, and features around 130 exhibitors. It’s the sine qua non of antiques shopping, beloved of interior decorators and collectors alike, who come to find one-off designs and objects with history and individuality. Antiques and vintage one-off items for sale range from the fine and formal to the purely decorative, including jewellery and luxury pieces, dating from the 1700s to the late 1970s. Art and sculpture is a major element at the Fair, with works spanning antiquity to contemporary.
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