So on Friday I visited the Chelsea Antiques Fair at Old Chelsea Town Hall, as you might remember from Friday’s post: Heading off to the Chelsea Antiques Fair!
The Chelsea Antiques Fair at the beautiful Old Chelsea Town Hall
I just love visiting Old Chelsea Town Hall, as it is such a beautiful venue. It also creates the perfect backdrop to an antiques fair – let’s take a closer look at the decor:
Such beautiful chandeliers and I love the soft turquoise walls with the golden details…
Chelsea Old Town Hall
I absolutely love dogs, so first of all I have to take you to the Hearing Dogs stand: the charity supported by the fair.
Hearing Dogs Charity, supported by The Chelsea Antiques Fair
As I was wandering around the fair I noticed that some of the objects were marked with a little red dot, and I found out that these were the selected objects where a percentage of the sales would go directly to the charity. Here is one of my favourites:
“Puppy Toothache” at the Hearing Dogs charity, Chelsea Antiques Fair
Puppy Toothache – gilt bronze study from early 20th century
And these handsome guys kept an eye on the fair for us:
At the Hearing Dogs Charity at The Chelsea Antiques Fair
We will visit a number of other stands later on this week but I also wanted to give you guys a quick heads up that there is a fabulous antique auction at Catherine Southon Auctioneers and Valuers in Surrey on Wednesday 26th March at 11:30 (you might recognise Catherine Southon from various BBC Antiques programmes!) It seems that the bidding will start at very reasonable levels for quite a few objects, so it could be a really interesting one to visit – especially if it is one of your first auctions experiences!
Catherine Southon Auctioneers and Valuers, next sale at The Chateau in Shirley Hills, Surrey on Wed 26th March 2014 at 11:30am
The sale can be viewed on 25th & 26th March at The Chateau, Coombe Lane, Shirley, Surrey CR0 5RE. For more details, you can visit her website: www.catherinesouthon.co.uk.
Decades of Elegance 