The Decorative Fair opened its 2025 year in Battersea Park with some 130 dealers, a mezzanine of antique rugs and textiles, and architectural drawings as its backdrop.
The Decorative Fair opened its 2025 year at Evolution London in Battersea Park, from Tuesday 21 to Sunday 26 January 2025. Its dealers show antiques and design from the 1700s to the 1970s.
The family who founded the fair in 1985 still run it. Their premise was that the antiques trade and the interior design trade should sell to the same buyer.
Battersea Park has been its home since 1997. The fair was the first event staged on the site that became Evolution London, in two canvas marquees, and its success shaped the semi-permanent hall that followed.
January is the edition for light and glass. Modernist and period lighting, mirrors, studio glass, crystal and silver were better represented on the winter floor, alongside jewellery and vintage watches.
Some 130 specialist dealers took stands in 2025 at a range of prices, many of them dressing their pitches as room sets. On the mezzanine, the London Antique Rug and Textile Art Fair gathered 15 dealers in rugs, carpets, tribal weaving and antique textiles.
The year’s campaign used drawings from the Sketchbooks of the architect George Saumarez Smith, a director of ADAM Architecture, as backdrops.