The Decorative Fair's spring edition filled its Battersea Park marquee in May 2026, and a foyer potting shed marked the 160th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth.
The Decorative Fair held its spring edition at Evolution London in Battersea Park from Tuesday 12 to Sunday 17 May 2026. A foyer display marked the 160th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth.
The fair is four decades old and holds three editions a year in Battersea Park. It refuses to rank one period over another, so an eighteenth-century commode and a 1970s lamp are judged by the same eye.
The May edition is the garden one, weighted toward statuary, urns and outdoor furniture. Its buyers are interior designers and decorators sourcing for clients, and collectors who come for a single object with a history.
Around 130 dealers showed in 2026, with stock from the 1700s to the 1970s at a range of prices.
The foyer display, A Perfect Potting Shed for Mr. McGregor, set garden pieces beside vernacular country furniture and treen, the small handmade wooden household objects. Every item came from the exhibitors’ own stock. Its title borrowed the name of the gardener whose vegetable patch Peter Rabbit raids.
The display was made with Gilbert Bannerman, a young dealer at the fair and scion of the garden designers Isabel and Julian Bannerman.