Founded in 1985 to unite the antiques and interior design trades, the Decorative Fair opened its tented Battersea Park showground for the first of three 2026 editions in the autumn.
More than 130 dealers in antiques, twentieth-century design and decorative objects took stands at The Decorative Fair’s autumn edition. It ran at Evolution London in Battersea Park from Tuesday 29 September to Sunday 4 October 2026.
The Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair launched in 1985 as a family-owned business. Its proposition was that the antiques trade and the interior design trade should sell to the same person in the same room.
It was the first British fair to admit post-war design alongside period pieces. Battersea Park has been its home since 1997, when it put up the marquee that other London fairs have since copied.
The buyer here is the decorator and the private client, so the test a piece has to pass is whether somebody will live with it. That test has kept the floor consistent across three editions a year.
It was the first of the three editions for 2026. Its dealers showed pieces from the 1700s to the 1970s, alongside painting, prints and sculpture.
Tribal Art London took the mezzanine for the same run, the only British fair given to original tribal and ethnographic material.