LAPADA FAIRS - LONDON
21 - 25 September 2011
The LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair
Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London
Many new collectors at LAPADA's Second Berkeley Square Fair
A tremendously-well attended Preview evening, good sales to collectors and private buyers, and an increased gate of just over 15,000 visitors (up by nearly 15% on 2009) made for a busy week at the second LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair to be held in Berkeley Square, Mayfair.
Throughout the Fair, dealers consistently reported many sales to new customers, including supposedly elusive ‘young’ buyers. Every exhibitor met top quality visitors, including international buyers and collectors, and wealthy local residents. As last year, dealers reported they were making sales to and meeting customers they never meet at other London Fairs.
Sales were buoyant for quality and unusual collectors’ items, works of art including bronzes and pictures, and many dealers have since reported sales of larger furniture items secured in the weeks after the Fair from new customers who had viewed items during the event.
The Fair and organisers were once again praised for the presentation and ambience of the event, which was deemed by all to be both interesting and exciting, and with a genuinely broad mix of stock to appeal to a wide range of customers.
Sarah Percy-Davis, Chief Executive of LAPADA, commented that the Association’s Fair-organising team “was very pleased to achieve one of our major aims for this year - to significantly increase footfall. Once again every day was very busy, including after 5pm when locally-based business people were in evidence. Re-booking forms have been flooding in since before the end of the Fair, so we know our Members are confident that the Berkeley Square venue is the place to be.”
