LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair 2014, Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London, W1, 24th September – 28th September 2014
The LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair Berkeley Square 2013
This is the sixth edition of the fair in its prime central location and it has very much become a place for collectors from around the world to come and buy some of the many fine pieces of furniture, jewellery, carpets, tapestries, antiquities, clocks, ceramics, silver and fine art that are on offer. All works are vetted by an expert committee before being displayed.
Chinese School, 19th century, selection of works from a collection depicting various subjects, from Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts
Among newcomers to the fair is Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd who will be showing the Cesare Maccari Collection of Chinese Watercolours. Their subject matter is natural history and biology and they were originally commissioned by an officer in the British East India Company and were aimed for the growing European interest in such subjects in the 19th century.
As my regular followers know leading furniture dealers Butchoff Antiques are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and at the show they are exhibiting the winning piece of their 50th Anniversary Design Competition. Called‘E-Scritoire’, it is a small writing cabinet or portable laptop table and was designed by Giulia Liverani and combines both elegance and utility well as these images show.
The Italian textile company Dedar has collaborated with Butchoff to use their textiles to upholster period furniture such as the pair of French Régence style armchairs which have been upholstered in the Turkish inspired fabric Bukara. Seems a great way forward to me.
A fine pair of salon armchairs in the Régence manner by Maison Krieger of Paris, circa 1870. Dimensions H 113 cm, W 70 cm, D 60 cm. Upholstered in Bukara, a pattern of Turkoman inspiration embroidered with bulky textured yarn onto a Tussah silk ground.
The Fair’s charity party will benefit The National Osteoporosis Society.
Cuenca rug, Spain, circa. 1920, 2.46 x 2.02 metre, from Gallery Yacou
Fine George III mahogany table clock by J & F Vigne, London, c. 1795, from Montpellier Clocks
Tim Forrest's E & A 