The Decorative Fair's spring edition turns its Battersea Park marquee toward the garden, with statuary, urns and outdoor pieces given the floor's strongest position.
The Decorative Fair, which takes post-war design as seriously as period furniture, holds its spring edition at Evolution London in Battersea Park from Tuesday 11 to Sunday 16 May 2027.
The family that founded the fair still runs it. It has grown from one room’s proposition into three editions a year, and buyers have reached it in Battersea Park since 1997.
Its dateline stops at 1979, a line it drew in 1985, so a stone urn and a 1970s garden chair stand on the same footing. Each edition is read for its own season.
The May fair falls when a garden is being planned. Statuary, urns, outdoor furniture and architectural pieces take a stronger position on the floor than they hold in January or September.
What sells here is bought to be lived with, which is why the decorator’s diary sets these dates. Around 130 dealers show antiques, fine and decorative art and twentieth-century design.
Bone Idyll caters the mezzanine restaurant. A courtesy coach runs from Sloane Square throughout the run, on the route that has carried buyers to the park since 1997.