The autumn fair marked a hundred years of Art Deco with its dealers in a marquee wrapped in a bespoke botanical commission.
LAPADA is the largest society of professional art and antique dealers in Britain. It held its autumn fair in a marquee in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, from Tuesday 28 October to Sunday 2 November 2025.
The Association of Art and Antique Dealers was founded in 1974. Its members range across contemporary and fine art, jewellery, furniture, sculpture and ceramics, and the fair shows that breadth on one floor, with more than eighty dealers.
The 2025 edition marked the centenary of Art Deco. Serhat Ahmet showed a Sèvres vase designed for the 1924 Paris Olympics and a pair of Meissen horses by Max Esser from 1928. AntikBar hung an original 1935 Monaco Grand Prix poster by Geo Ham.
Adam Ellis Studio wrapped the marquee inside and out in Carnival Bloom, a botanical commission in gold, red and jewel tones.
Haute Jewels made its first dedicated London presence at the fair, bringing contemporary high jewellery houses to Mayfair. Gladwell & Patterson, the oldest gallery in London, exhibited for the first time, as did Portland Gallery, a Modern British specialist. Whitford Fine Art returned after ten years away, and Butchoff Antiques took its largest stand yet.